While it lacks the manic energy of the original, The Naked Gun reboot delivers laughs thanks to the ingenious casting of Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.

Recent events have made me, like many Americans in 2025, really desperate for a laugh. Naturally, I regarded the new Naked Gun as a potential laugh-bonanza and went to see it immediately.

And I laughed quite a few times, so it was a win. But I was aware all the while that this is pretty mediocre stuff in the realm of all-out, completely silly, utterly shameless and low-down comedy. The new Naked Gun lacks that ruthlessness of the 1988 original — one-liners, puns, parodic references, wall-to-wall sight gags, insane slapstick acrobatics, the whole shmear proudly on display.

But if you like comedy, it’s impossible not to be struck by the

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