I think that national anthem scene is one of the best scenes Leslie Nielsen ever did. No matter how many times I see that movie, I never can get through that part without losing it.
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No matter how many times I’ve watched The Naked Gun it still makes me laugh. I can practically recite the movie word for word and it’s still just as funny as it was when I first saw it. Without question one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
Some of the Naked Gun jokes are so subtle. Theres a scene where Leslie Nielsen is trying to use a CC to open a lock. It doesn't take Visa, or MC, it only opens with American Express.
My films and television teacher told me and the class said, that comedy is hard to write. The other film, Mississippi burning is a superb film.Great actors in it
There's quite a number of movies (30+) worth seeing once from 1988, like _Mississippi Burning._ Then there's movies (~6) worth seeing multiple times like _The Naked Gun._
I admire "The Naked Gun" and "The Wizard of Oz" (the latter of the two was in the video segment). "Mississippi Burning" is also a very good drama. Have not seen "Dakota" or "Vincent."
I liked the opening scene of the video, where the woman is getting her cheek pinched and you can hear her teeth rattle! Now that is a special effect I've never5 heard before, and don't expect to hear again.
Anyone find it interesting, coincidental, and ironic that in the same review with Mississippi Burning starring Willem Dafoe that it featured a film titled ‘Vincent’ in the same room in which years later Dafoe went on to play Vincent Van Gogh in 2018 titled At Eternity’s Gate.
Roger Ebert has said that The Naked Gun is dumb (but funny) comedy. I disagree. It's brilliant comedy. He mentions that fighting fish in the clip, but that's just part of the whole gag. The pen is highly specialized and impervious to everything except water. What does Drebin do? He accidentally destroys the pen by throwing it into the fish tank, and then he accidentally kills the prized fighting fish while trying to retrieve the pen, then realizes what he's done and tries to get out of there as quickly as he can, and _then_ we see Montalban's character dumbfounded by his dead, impaled prize fish floating at the top of the tank. It's the layers, that make it work so well. Drebin doesn't just destroy the pen. He doesn't just kill the fish. He kills the fish by destroying the pen. And it all flows from his ineptness. He follows that up by acting like a goof who wants to get away before his antics are discovered (classic comedy staple). And then we get the callback in the following scene where the dead fish is floating in the tank. Each element is funny on its own, but it gets funnier the more you think about it because you realize, "Oh, yeah, it's that, too!" And the ultimate brilliance is that it is simple enough to appreciate on a dumb level, so that you don't have to think about it in order to laugh at it.
That 1925 wizard of Oz could have been done by L. frank baum himself. he moved to Hollywood California and with the intent of making movies of all the Oz books
The only movie critics i c online are either trying to be half comedies or clueless of pre 1970s movies. Both groups are only comprised of people of their 20s. Notice these 2 guys Aren't kids
Naked Gun wasn't as good as Police Squad, but it was still a very funny comedy film franchise. It's very difficult to pull off a comedy film - but Zuzker and co. pulled it.
Mississippi Burning was nominated for 7 Oscars, only winning for Cinematography. What many of us do not know is that the movie was criticized by many Civil Rights leaders from the 1960s. Boycotting the film due to the "White Savior" architype and it's overt fictionalization of the events from the film. Which is understandable since the director is from England.
MB has not aged well at all. It's a glossy revenge melodrama that has no insight into the era or the issues. Siskel and Ebert were too carried away with the look, acting and sweep of it to see through it.
@@Trumpetjoe40 no they didn't expect the fbi agents to be black but the film portrays the fbi much more positively than they deserve. in the movie the fbi stop a lynching and come running when a black man is dumped on the street after being assaulted. in real life fbi agents were present and stood by as black citizens were assaulted in broad daylight. they were there only to solve the case of the 3 murdered young men not to get involved in the civil rights movement or to enforce the law. blacks were also portrayed as being submissive and not risking their lives for their freedom except for one brave young boy in the movie. watching the movie you would think that the fbi was responsible for giving black citizens civil rights.
@@Trumpetjoe40 well to you this might be just a movie for entertainment purposes. to the people who lived it and were beaten, locked up in jail for trying to register people to vote, and had friends/family members murdered it is a lot more than just entertainment. how do you not understand why people would be critical of this movie? for most people, watching this film is the only time they have ever heard of chaney, schwerner, and goodman and people who lived this want it to be right.
I don't understand Siskel. He was disappointed with comedies like Police Academy, Bachelor Party and Blind Date...but he likes Naked Gun. I really don't get him. By the way, I watch this movie twice every year, and can't stop laugh despite on that
Naked Gun received loads of positive reviews from critics, not just Gene. It was one of the better reviewed comedies of its day. Those other films may have been box-office hits but got mostly bad reviews. It's a subjective thing. I mean The Naked Gun was a huge hit, people generally liked it more than those other films, critics especially.
I think my biggest complaint about the Naked Gun films is that they seemed to have forgotten what made the Police Squad! series work: The series doesn't think it's a comedy - it's just funny as heck. The films are obvious comedies, so (ironically) they are NOT as funny, and they just don't work like the series did. It's also why Young Frankenstein worked and Dracula Dead and Loving It didn't. Plus, Drebin in the movies is just an idiot. And Clouseau was a lot better at THAT approach.
@@clayz1 Didn't say that. It was funny, and I kinda liked it, but not as much as I enjoyed the series. I just said I preferred the character of Drebin in the TV series than the fool of the movies. And I don't think the movies try for the more subtle humor of the TV series.
Both the mobie and the series had more than enough comic merits. As bummed as I was that the TV show was canceled so quickly, I was just happy to have a new movie gave us more Police Squad comedy. Ideally I wanted the series to be revived, but getting a few movies was close enough.
It has multiple songs in it, sung by the characters as part of the story. It's absolutely a musical. A movie can be two different genres as once. Calm down.
I think that national anthem scene is one of the best scenes Leslie Nielsen ever did. No matter how many times I see that movie, I never can get through that part without losing it.
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@Soren Jamari I really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
Hey! It's Enrico Palazzo!
Surely you aren't serious?
Yep, "The Naked Gun" is a comic masterpiece, up there with "Duck Soup" and "Young Frankenstein."
"Nice Beaver!"
Lol dam I was just gonna make this comment.
No matter how many times I’ve watched The Naked Gun it still makes me laugh. I can practically recite the movie word for word and it’s still just as funny as it was when I first saw it. Without question one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
Some of the Naked Gun jokes are so subtle. Theres a scene where Leslie Nielsen is trying to use a CC to open a lock. It doesn't take Visa, or MC, it only opens with American Express.
And the Concrete Dildo ATTACK does not hold up?!?
@@dallesamllhals9161 HAHA Yes but that one's not subtle!!
@@Tker1970 ..well - it started as a piece of art on a building! You no likey ♂ "art"? I do ;-P
Yup
I love how they couldn't keep a straight face when merely giving a review.
One of my favorite 80s crime dramas and one of my favorite 80s comedies.
My films and television teacher told me and the class said, that comedy is hard to write. The other film, Mississippi burning is a superb film.Great actors in it
I love that Ebert can barely keep it together for his summary of the movie.
I agree 100% with Gene Siskle when he was raving about Willem Dafoe in Mississippi Burning
..why wouldn't you? He's a pretty good actor.
@@dallesamllhals9161 pretty good is a understatement
@@tristanbeaumont8048 Well, I'm from Jutland...and there "pretty good" means ÜBER-SUPER-FANTASTIC ETC. ;-)
Love seeing them praise young Dafoes acting work...he is very underrated
Back in the day they almost had classics in every episodes reviewed. Today you are lucky if you get one per year.
There's quite a number of movies (30+) worth seeing once from 1988, like _Mississippi Burning._ Then there's movies (~6) worth seeing multiple times like _The Naked Gun._
The Naked Gun is amazingly funny. Young people don’t get the Zsa Zsa Gabor scene reference.
Siskel's Chicago accent when talking about "Willim" Dafoe
I never laughed so hard in my life when I first saw the naked gun
Siskel & Ebert describing the jokes is quite funny.
that part where he sange the natoinal athem is most funny part of movie first time i saw it i was laughing so hard i could barly breath
I admire "The Naked Gun" and "The Wizard of Oz" (the latter of the two was in the video segment). "Mississippi Burning" is also a very good drama. Have not seen "Dakota" or "Vincent."
I liked the opening scene of the video, where the woman is getting her cheek pinched and you can hear her teeth rattle! Now that is a special effect I've never5 heard before, and don't expect to hear again.
I really enjoyed Mississippi Burning. Along with Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, there's great performances by Brad Dourif and R. Lee Ermy
Oh good. I was afraid they weren't going to like The Naked Gun.
I am pretty sure they liked all the Naked Gun movies. I know Ebert did
M Burning; 1 of the best dramas in history!
Whenever the Zuckers come along Roge can barely make it to the end of the review without laughing his ass off
Interestingly, William Defoe also played Van Gogh in "At Eternity's Gate"
Anyone find it interesting, coincidental, and ironic that in the same review with Mississippi Burning starring Willem Dafoe that it featured a film titled ‘Vincent’ in the same room in which years later Dafoe went on to play Vincent Van Gogh in 2018 titled At Eternity’s Gate.
Not sure how I never saw Vincent hope I can find it online.
Do you by chance have the full episode that includes "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"?
I don't have my own recording of that one, but I do have a backup from the S&E site.
Roger Ebert has said that The Naked Gun is dumb (but funny) comedy. I disagree. It's brilliant comedy. He mentions that fighting fish in the clip, but that's just part of the whole gag. The pen is highly specialized and impervious to everything except water. What does Drebin do? He accidentally destroys the pen by throwing it into the fish tank, and then he accidentally kills the prized fighting fish while trying to retrieve the pen, then realizes what he's done and tries to get out of there as quickly as he can, and _then_ we see Montalban's character dumbfounded by his dead, impaled prize fish floating at the top of the tank.
It's the layers, that make it work so well. Drebin doesn't just destroy the pen. He doesn't just kill the fish. He kills the fish by destroying the pen. And it all flows from his ineptness. He follows that up by acting like a goof who wants to get away before his antics are discovered (classic comedy staple). And then we get the callback in the following scene where the dead fish is floating in the tank. Each element is funny on its own, but it gets funnier the more you think about it because you realize, "Oh, yeah, it's that, too!" And the ultimate brilliance is that it is simple enough to appreciate on a dumb level, so that you don't have to think about it in order to laugh at it.
As one from the 'Old World'! The CLIMAX was Drebin on top/between the legs of QE2* :-D
*Nope! Not the ship ;-P
That 1925 wizard of Oz could have been done by L. frank baum himself. he moved to Hollywood California and with the intent of making movies of all the Oz books
I only saw the jitterbug video a couple years ago. I didn't know they'd found it over 30 years ago.
Laser disk. Worth investing in.🤣🤣
DVDs still have 'em...and I can see them when i wanna'...I know - i'm SO xennial!
The only movie critics i c online are either trying to be half comedies or clueless of pre 1970s movies. Both groups are only comprised of people of their 20s. Notice these 2 guys Aren't kids
IKR ? I look at these insufferable "listicles" of best films and rarely does anyone mention anything before the mid 70's.
Naked Gun wasn't as good as Police Squad, but it was still a very funny comedy film franchise. It's very difficult to pull off a comedy film - but Zuzker and co. pulled it.
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Mississippi Burning was nominated for 7 Oscars, only winning for Cinematography. What many of us do not know is that the movie was criticized by many Civil Rights leaders from the 1960s. Boycotting the film due to the "White Savior" architype and it's overt fictionalization of the events from the film. Which is understandable since the director is from England.
MB has not aged well at all. It's a glossy revenge melodrama that has no insight into the era or the issues. Siskel and Ebert were too carried away with the look, acting and sweep of it to see through it.
It’s a film. Not a documentary. It was a good film with great performances and did critics expect FBI agents to be…..black? FFS.
@@Trumpetjoe40 no they didn't expect the fbi agents to be black but the film portrays the fbi much more positively than they deserve. in the movie the fbi stop a lynching and come running when a black man is dumped on the street after being assaulted. in real life fbi agents were present and stood by as black citizens were assaulted in broad daylight. they were there only to solve the case of the 3 murdered young men not to get involved in the civil rights movement or to enforce the law. blacks were also portrayed as being submissive and not risking their lives for their freedom except for one brave young boy in the movie. watching the movie you would think that the fbi was responsible for giving black citizens civil rights.
@@trump-totalwar6509 wait….you mean the movie didn’t portray life EXACTLY as it happened? A movie did this? A movie for entertainment purposes? Whoa
@@Trumpetjoe40 well to you this might be just a movie for entertainment purposes. to the people who lived it and were beaten, locked up in jail for trying to register people to vote, and had friends/family members murdered it is a lot more than just entertainment. how do you not understand why people would be critical of this movie? for most people, watching this film is the only time they have ever heard of chaney, schwerner, and goodman and people who lived this want it to be right.
Edited out O.J. Simpson from the Naked Gun review huh? 🤔
“Strike?”
11:47 - C'mon Gene. There's no need to curse.
Hey @Plissken 21 - 1. Your joke is NOT funny! 2. Gene Siskel is NOT reading TH-cam Comments, since Gene is DEAD! 3. Ehhh?
@@warriormanmaxx8991 Great. Now go home and tell dad what a good job you've done.
@@plissken2156 - re: "Great." Glad you agree. Another unfunny "joke."
@@warriormanmaxx8991 Think hard, WarriorMan Maxx. Did the doctor say two pills every twelve hours, or twelve pills every two hours?
@@plissken2156 I cun't hear whores fighting? Help danish person undstand? ☮ Denmark
I don't understand Siskel. He was disappointed with comedies like Police Academy, Bachelor Party and Blind Date...but he likes Naked Gun. I really don't get him.
By the way, I watch this movie twice every year, and can't stop laugh despite on that
Naked Gun received loads of positive reviews from critics, not just Gene. It was one of the better reviewed comedies of its day. Those other films may have been box-office hits but got mostly bad reviews. It's a subjective thing. I mean The Naked Gun was a huge hit, people generally liked it more than those other films, critics especially.
@@andyfilm5785 But people also liked the first Police Academy.
I think my biggest complaint about the Naked Gun films is that they seemed to have forgotten what made the Police Squad! series work: The series doesn't think it's a comedy - it's just funny as heck. The films are obvious comedies, so (ironically) they are NOT as funny, and they just don't work like the series did. It's also why Young Frankenstein worked and Dracula Dead and Loving It didn't.
Plus, Drebin in the movies is just an idiot. And Clouseau was a lot better at THAT approach.
Do you mean to tell us that you watched Naked Gun and didn’t even laugh?
@@clayz1 Didn't say that. It was funny, and I kinda liked it, but not as much as I enjoyed the series. I just said I preferred the character of Drebin in the TV series than the fool of the movies. And I don't think the movies try for the more subtle humor of the TV series.
I agree that Police Squad was a lot sharper than the movies but it's not a grand decline between the two mediums. The movies are more than adequate.
Both the mobie and the series had more than enough comic merits. As bummed as I was that the TV show was canceled so quickly, I was just happy to have a new movie gave us more Police Squad comedy. Ideally I wanted the series to be revived, but getting a few movies was close enough.
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DID I HEAR RODGER SAY THAT THE WIZARD OF OZ WAS A MUSICAL? IT WAS A FANTASY ASSHAT.
It has multiple songs in it, sung by the characters as part of the story. It's absolutely a musical. A movie can be two different genres as once. Calm down.
@@DoncoEntAgain Just the facts, maam. Just the facts 😌