The best joke in the naked pistol is a disturbed version of a classic vacation (and horror)

This article contains spoilers For “The Naked Gun”.

I looked at the original “Naked Gun” trilogy more than I can count. Leslie Nielsen as a detective of the clumsy police Frank Drebin is by far the biggest comic role of the actor, and the one whose impassive delivery rarely makes me laugh. The absence of Nielsen, as well as zero contribution from David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (otherwise known as Zaz), have always taken a break each time we hear a word from a restart on the horizon. From this week, however, it brings me so much joy at knowing that I can add the exuberant inherited suite of Akiva Schaffer to the list. / Ethan Anderton of the film gave “The Naked Gun” an elegant criticism as the funniest film of the year, and I could not agree more.

Lonely Island Alun Schaffer, as well as producer Seth Macfarlane and the co-authors Dan Gregor & Doug Mand, honor the spirit of the wacky humor of Zaz, while making their “naked pistol” feels like a breath of fresh air. If I have not already been sold by the brilliant OJ Simpson joke of the trailer for the trailer (one of the many genius decisions on behalf of the marketing department of this film), then the opening of the naughty heist of Kevin Durand made me locked. Liam Neeson was the best choice of casting to play Frank Drebin Jr. self -awareness, although through the prism of his character of a gruff action film. But while Neeson guarantees many good laughs in his own conditions, some of the strongest moments in the film are when he shares the screen with Pamela Anderson.

Neeson and Anderson were they coming out after working together on “The Naked Gun”, and that shouldn’t surprise anyone who saw the film. They make an adorable pair of screen which has so much fun to be idiotic in the presence of each other, especially in a hilarious sequence which takes the dark insinuations of “Austin Powers: The Spy which broke me” to a brand new extreme. Beth Davenport d’Anderson, a lighter parody on Sharon Stone’s fatal woman of “Basic Instinct”, mine the huge laughs in his attempt to get closer to the heart of Drebin Jr. – and Turkey.

For the same way as the “Naked Gun” films are laughing at a walking disaster like Drebin, the romantic pulse in the center of them has always been one of their most critical components. In the film of 1988, there is a hilarious montage of Drebin de Nielsen in a pile of romantic escapades with Jane Spencer of Priscilla Presley in which they strike the couples at the beach, would slip each other with Hot Dog Condiments, and Guffaw while they come out of the Hot Dog war draon “.” Naked Gun ” Anderson their own assembly of nuptial parade, but takes it to an even more absurd degree.

Halfway through “The Naked Gun”, Drebin Jr. and Beth make a small excursion to a winter getaway called Snowman’s Cottage. Up to the level of “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now of Starship, the couple does everything waiting for lovebirds in the first stadiums of their relationship. If you have never made Katana during the first holidays, you are missing. They even build a snowman together, but things take an unexpected hilarious turn when Beth comes out a book of spells and incantations. To demonstrate their fantasy “Frosty The Snowman”, and of course, he walks right away.

Drebin Jr. and Beth’s infant fun for his cold resurrection is almost immediately revealed as something much more crumpled, the couple engaging in a PG-13 household with three with the snowman. Neeson is even watering the arm of the snowman with snow cone syrup and the lick as if it was a hot summer day. But alas, there are only so many ways to screw a snowman, so he begins to become visibly disappointed for having been excluded from their romantic activities. I didn’t know that I would only have to wait until a few more moments until the horror film shoe falls. People, I can’t tell you how hard I laughed when the song is slowly drone while it gets into angry snowman while looking at them in the hot tub, where Lorne Balfe’s score takes on a much more sinister rate.

For a brief moment, “The Naked Gun” becomes a hilarious parody of horror film while the snowman continues Drebin Jr. and Beth around the chalet with a Glock. Just when it seems that the awkward detective is made for, Anderson draws a sneaky attack and beheads their third magic wheel with the Katana that it was offered earlier. Starship’s song is back and the happy couple comes back to their romantic activities. This is what happens when you invite a vigorous snowman to join and leave it behind. They would probably have been good if they had read “if you give a snowman a soul” in advance.

All this cabin sequence is an excellent example of the reason why “the naked pistol” succeeds. Rather than removing the same rhythms as the film ’88, Schaffer has the type of joke that you expect to see in a digital short film on the lonely island which always corresponds to Zaz school to play something so ridiculously stupidly straight. You get a lot of big gags of view, the sequence being relatively without words, which also proves that they have a strong link and will turn each other in dangerous situations. In some respects, The Snowman Twist also plays as a pseudo-reimagination of a cult horror film.

One of the main reasons why I like horror films is that the genre has its ardent defenders, even with regard to low -budget shlock. Direct-video films may not have much money to work with, but they have the mind to do so, as is the case with “Jack Frost” from 1997. No, we are not talking about the scary family film of Michael Keaton of the same name a year later. We are talking about the cult horror comedy led by Michael Cooney who presents a mutant snowman who is unleashed.

The similarities between the two mortal snowmen do not lie as much in their origins or their motivations. In Cooney’s film, the Stasher holder is a condemned serial killer named Jack Frost (Scott Macdonald) who ends up colliding with a truck loaded with dangerous chemicals during the winter and emerges from the other side like a mutant snowman. It is roughly a pale imitation of the soul of the killer transferred to an unexpected plot of ships that Brad Dourif has perfected with the series “Child’s Play”. There is also the question of “Jack Frost” being a real slog which sometimes feels quite evil, especially with an unpleasant assault scene involving Shannon Elizabeth in a shower. However, where the similarities are between the two films, it is in the way in which snowmen are presented.

Jack Frost is an artist’s creation of special effects (and director of “The Guyver”) howling Mad George who does not really look like the snow in motion. It is described as a stowed foam or someone in a flexible puppet costume. “The Naked Gun” chose to go with a slightly similar approach, with Schaffer and producer Erica Huggins wanting to avoid CG by becoming practical. Since they had much more money with which to work with, “The Naked Gun” chose to reach out to anything other than the Jim Henson creature shop to have their snowman in Trio made. According to press notes in the film, the dream of Schaffer 4 AM fever has manifested itself in the form of the puppeteers of Henson Lindsey Briggs and Chris Hayes building / exploiting a giant felt costume with animatronic eyebrows. Credit must also be given to people in the innovative workshop who made the foam face of the snowman that Neeson and Anderson built at the top of the editing.

Through the logic of comedy, you expect the snowman to use his carrot as a weapon, but it is so much funnier to look at a nominated actor with anicarier fearing for his life as a puppet which loads it with a loaded pistol.

“The Naked Gun” is now playing in the rooms of the country.