Cons: Far too light on extras
What began as a failed ABC Thursday night spoof television series which ran for just four episodes (out of 6 filmed) emerged many years later as the wildly popular Naked Gun film series. Spoof and farce masters David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, along with writer Pat Proft, embraced the serial detective TV shows from many years before, including Dragnet, mixed in some film-noir narration, and played straight a brilliant mix of visual gags and verbal puns. The Naked Gun remains a genuinely funny film and the 1950’s detective vibe in the late 1980’s Los Angeles setting offer a strangely timeless laugh-a-minute experience. The late Leslie Nielson delivers his most spot-on, straight-faced spoof performance and, with a appropriately throwaway story upon which to lay the many absurd moments, provides for one heck of a fun film. Please note that this film is released on Blu-ray as an exclusive to Best Buy.
