It may not be the best of the three (for me), but even after thirty-seven years (!), the first “Naked Gun” is still a memorable and frequently funny comedy, which only begins to fall apart during its third act. [Full review in Spanish].

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2025

Director David Zucker (directing solo for the first time) knows what he’s doing and delivers joke after joke after joke after joke. It’s an onslaught of comedy, and though some jokes are misses, the batting average is high.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

From beginning to end, The Naked Gun is a great big goofy grin... If this movie made your sides ache any worse, the Surgeon General might have to slap a warning label on it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2025

From the opening prologue, "The Naked Gun" is a steady riot of chuckles, guffaws and old-fashioned belly-laughs.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

It just doesn't measure up to the quicker-paced "Airplane."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2025

Random spoofers, easily distracted, ZAZ are too devoted to silliness to mount even a sustained parody of movies.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

The joy of The Naked Gun is its lunatic sobriety.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

Its creators, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker, have taken their brand of hit-and-run conceptual humor to a new, refined pitch.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

This movie is a blast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2025

Director David Zucker hops over dud gags, tasteless spots and repetition, and mainly delivers crass, likeable comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2025

Those who liked the short-lived but merry Police Squad ought to enjoy it. It is, at the very least, considerably superior to Police Academy, if not quite Buster Keaton.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

Most of "The Naked Gun" is pure silliness, but there's so much happening, that you don't have time to contemplate it. You just gobble it like cotton candy and instantly forget it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2025

The end credits, remind you that ZAZ's forte is sight gags, not verbal jokes. These are predictably spotty, lacking the surreal wildness of the earlier films.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

The film is almost superior of its kind -- a vast improvement over Airplane!, in the sense that it resists throwing out more gags than an audience can digest in one viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2025

Leslie Nielsen is miscast and it is largely because of him that, for me, the spoof did not take to the air as in Airplane. Far from being naked, the gun is not even loaded.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

The film revels in its unabashed dopeyness and you'll probably remember the parts that made you laugh more than the parts that didn't.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

Nielsen's rendition of the national anthem and his enthusiastic impersonation of a baseball umpire are inspired bits of film comedy.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

The film is vulgar without being very funny.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

"The Naked Gun" is an inspired bit of lunacy that suffers principally because it could never have the freshness or shock value that made "Airplane!" special in 1980... But laugh for laugh, the film delivers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2025

The emphasis is on the sight gag, the spoof and the parody, and most of it is amusing.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025