The third Naked Gun movie used to be on the movie channels all the time when I was growing up, and I'm sure I've seen the first one at some point, but I'm not sure I'd ever watched the second one. Other than the gag about Norbert (O.J. Simpson) getting caught under a bus and winding up in Detroit, none of it rang a bell.
There's a plot in there about the coal, oil, and nuclear industries abducting and replacing the man President Bush the first has given full control over the country's energy policy, so that there won't be a shift to renewable energy sources, but you know that's irrelevant. It's just there to provide the bare bones to hang a lot of jokes on.
Some of the don't land, some do. Some aged better than others. One of the first bits is we learn Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) just received an award for killing his 1,000th drug dealer. Drebin admits he ran the last two over with his car by accident, and was just fortunate they happened to be drug dealers. Didn't really love that one. Hell, even President Bush looked troubled by that one. On the other hand, I laughed at the one with the grappling hook and the guard dog. You know how it's going to end up, but it still worked for me.
Robert Goulet makes a good foil for Leslie Nielsen. It's because he has such prominent eyebrows they really show off his confusion when Drebin says something he can't follow (which is about every other sentence).
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