The Josh Innes Show - New "Naked Gun" Review

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

I went to see the new "Naked Gun". First, off, here's a breakdown of the cinematic experience in Michigan. Second, here's the review... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and a little bit of hatred, proving that marriage isn't always a bed of roses. See The Roses only in theaters August 29th. Get tickets now. All right, everybody. I went to see the new Naked Gun movie. And by the way, it was the third highest grossing film of the weekend. It made 17 million, which was surprising to me because

the movie theater I went to, and I went on a Saturday afternoon in Sterling Heights, Michigan, which by the way, nice little town. I'm not saying this to kiss ass. This whole area is fantastic. Like all these suburbs of Detroit are beautiful, just awesome. And the city itself is cool too now granted I don't drive through a ton of the inner cities and all that shit, okay? I'm not in a ton of the you know the vacation hey kids Let's roll down the window to see parts of life that we don't always see gunshot roll them up areas I'm not in those areas, but I will tell you that

The city itself is great like I'm digging it. I've been on the air for six days now I think it's a cool city is like I like it the people seem cool. The food is really good The pizza is really good. It's a really cool place and sterling Heights is a decent little hike from my house But there's a daycare that Ross likes and we spend our Saturdays going to the cinema and eating lunch over there and stuff And it's fine You know It's weird because like you think think you wanna live in these areas that are very trendy and have the cute downtowns,

and I do, like there are great ones in this area. Then you realize how much you miss having a Target and a Walmart, and those are good distances away from these sometimes, you know. Sometimes you just wanna live in an area that's got every single mainstream restaurant and store, big box store you need. And that's kind of what the Sterling Heights is.

You got Walmart, you got Target, you got Carrabba's, you got all the stuff you need. The mall closed down, which by the way, and you guys know that I'm really into dead malls. That's sort of my thing. That's sort of my thing. It is my thing. I love dead malls. The JCPenney is still open in the mall in the sterling Heights So you can look out through the little thing like that

There's a curtain or whatever that's pulled up and not a curtain but like I see through door So you can't get into the mall, but you can look through it and just see the death of this mall And it turns me on I don't know why I love it so much, but I love it so much And it's so good. I love dead malls. I don't know why I love dead malls so much, but I love them Anywho, uh, let me play a couple commercials here and then we will get into the um The breakdown of naked gun and the cinematic experience in michigan as you know I really really despised the cinematic adventures in Missouri let's see how different things were in Michigan and we will do that after these words all right so here's what we got. Let's take a look here. Number three movie in the country, Naked Gun, 17 million.

First off, this is something I don't experience that often anymore. This movie theater had no recliners. It's an AMC theater. It is a gigantic theater. I'm trying to think of one that is comparable to. There was the theater, oh what was it? Not on Fountainview, what's the area?

You know where the deck on Fountainview is in Houston? What street is that on? But there was a huge movie theater and I don't know if it's still open or not, but this theater reminded me of that. Just a huge sprawling theater with like seemingly 30 screens and it was absurd. And the inside of it reminded me a lot

of the first colony AMC theater in Houston, well technically I guess in Sugarland, but it reminded me of that, like kind of a hybrid of those two. No recliners. And what you realize when you've spent a lot of time sitting in recliners at the movie theater is it's really not an enjoyable experience

to sit in the old school seats. Now in some instances you'll accept it. You'll accept the kind of uncomfortable seats if you're at a charming older theater like the River Oaks. I don't know, is the River Oaks theater open again? I know they shut it down and then reopen it. The River Oaks theater is great, but when you actually sit in the River Oaks theater

in the old school seats, now maybe they've gone in and changed the seats Maybe they turned them into recliners now I don't know but back in my day at the River Oaks theater in Houston. They had the old horrible creaky Wood plastic seats in there that were terrible. I don't even know that the seats at River Oaks I don't even know that they were padded like they if they were like torture chairs, right? But you accept that because you're at a charming, older theater and you're watching a midnight showing of Santa Claus versus the Martians. And it's cool.

You expect that. You accept that you're into it, right? I don't accept that or expect that or am into it when you're going to see a movie in the current world that we're in. Your theater has to have recliners. And maybe you sound like a snob and maybe you sound like a dick to say that, but the theater must have recliners. It is a must.

This one didn't. Okay, fine, I knew that going in, but this was the theater near where Ross's daycare was. So we went. Cool. We get in, get the popcorn, the Soty pop, all that. We go to our seats and I felt like we were walking into like a rat trap because the floors were so sticky that I thought my flip flop was going to snap because I could not get the soles of my flip flop off of the ground. It was covered in some sort of gunk.

Just so happens the aisle that we chose to sit in was nothing but just gunk, so it was hush, hush, hush. And that part of it sucked. But the positive of this experience, other than like the 400 minutes of previews, which again, I have this conversation all the time, a trailer should not be longer than like 30 seconds. I can tell by watching a trailer if I think this

movie is going to be good and worth my time. Like I saw a trailer, usually you can tell by the people who are in it and what the plot is if you want to see the movie. Problem is most of these movies show you, you know, as we've discussed, show you the entire movie and it sucks. We've had this discussion many times You know how this works. It sucks cool There was some Seth Rogen movie I'm trying to remember but there's a Seth Rogen movie that I saw a trailer for that. I think looks pretty good, right and I'm into the idea of seeing this. I don't need to see clips

You show me Seth Rogen who for whatever whatever reason, I can't quit him. I started watching this platonic show on Apple TV. There's a new season of it coming out. First season was a couple of years ago with him and Rose Byrne. There are certain people that I just can't quit. And Seth Rogen, I think it's just the connection I have to 40-year-old Virgin.

It's the connection I have to Superbad. It's the connection I have to Knocked Up. To me, those were like the apex of comedy when I was in my late teens and early 20s. I cannot quit Seth Rogen. Yes he's annoyingly political. Yes his movies are not as good as they used to be and he's very sanctimonious like a lot of these other Hollywood schlubs but I can quit and abandon a lot of them for whatever reason I can't quit and abandon Seth Rogen. I love Seth Rogen. And I'm watching this platonic show, it's a couple years old, I like it.

I just like Seth Rogen for whatever reason. I'm sure that if you're a right-wing person, there's certain liberal people that you're just like, I still love this guy despite his weird politics. And I'm sure that if you're a liberal person, there's a couple of right-wing people that you just can't quit. You might be liberal as all hell, but you see home improvement and Tim Allen makes you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside, so you're really into it. Cool.

The other positive thing that came out of this movie experience is that there were only four people in the theater. That's why I'm shocked this movie made $17 million because on a Saturday afternoon at 2.30 in a nice kind of a fluent little suburb of Detroit Michigan there were four people at the theater which is really more a statement of the sad state of affairs at a lot of these theaters because like it was a ghost town across the board at this theater and maybe it's just unique to that area but it makes me sad and rips my heart out when I see movie theater struggling because I'm a

movie theater guy I love the experience of going to the cinema. The popcorn tastes better at the movie. The Soty Pop tastes better at the movie. The M&Ms that I snuck in tastes better at the theater. I love it. But overall, the experience wasn't bad other than the really uncomfortable chairs. Oh, and here's the other thing. So they give you these giant barrels of Sotypop, right? You're like, hey, here's my Sotypop that's 400 ounces, right? These chairs are so old that the cup holders are not big enough to hold the largest soda they have. How do you operate that way?

How do you operate in a world where you're like hey? We serve a soda that's so big you can't even put it in the cup holder And what's also weird is that the arms on the chairs like slant downward very strange But overall it wasn't terrible because the people in the movie weren't bad Because this is not st. Louis which I'm beginning to learn that st Louis is truly its own unique beast when it comes to people talking to the movie and being on their phones during the movie also another thing So if you look at the trailer like before the trailer started

There was like a big AMC intro to let you know that AMC and we like put you in the movies and whatever Show all the trailers, fine. Like I don't bitch about trailers because I like the coming attractions. I like to know what's coming out. I just don't need you to tell me everything that's gonna happen in the movie. Then after the trailer's over,

they do like another two minute let's blow AMC video. That's what kind of annoyed me. But no one talked during the movie. No one really even laughed during the movie because there was only four people. And maybe I would have thought the movie was better had I been in a packed house or like a black movie theater where everybody's laughing their balls off

and having a good time. Or maybe my sensibilities have changed, but it just, I didn't laugh all that much. Now there were some parts of the movie I laughed my ass off. There were a couple that made me laugh. But by and large, I was just kind of like it's fine But then I see that rotten tomatoes gives this a 90% And I'm like I have no fucking clue what's funny anymore because it was fine. It was watchable

It was short and that's the key like if you're gonna make a movie like this and keep people engaged make sure you know It's it's short and tight. I don't really want to sit through a movie that's two and a half hours, right? Big picture, I thought it was fine and watchable, right? To me, the biggest setback in this, the drawback, and I was fine with kind of the old school humor in it, and I get what we're doing here, we're making a new naked gun movie, so I get that you're going to do a lot of the old school humor in it. And like I get what we're doing here. We're making a new naked gun movie. So I get that you're gonna do a lot of the naked gun humor and it's fine. I didn't buy Liam Neeson.

I thought Liam Neeson, like when you watch, when you watch, how am I drawn to freaking, when you watch the OG Frank Drebben, when you watch him, you're like, all right, I can see that he's a former serious actor but I can also tell that he's kind of doofy enough, right? Like I can look at him and when you look at Leslie Nielsen, you'll say, okay, I can see that he kind of takes himself seriously but he's doofy enough for this stuff to work,

like for you to buy that he's that stupid or that inept At no point do I buy that Liam Neeson could be stupid enough or dumb enough for all of this dumb stuff to happen That's why I just I never bought it. I never accepted it watching it I was just kind of like I just don't buy it and and somebody on Twitter when I posted that asked well Who would you put in there instead? Nice? I don't know. I don't have the answer I was trying to think of who would have made more sense, but I just never fully bought it I never fully Accepted that Liam Neeson could be that Doofy because he's just it's such a serious one

I get it you're supposed to play the role serious because it's parody but like even like with Leslie Nielsen. He played it straight But he maybe because he was an older looking guy like Liam Neeson doesn't look old. He's 73, but doesn't look 73 You know Leslie Nielsen was in his 60s 70s whatever he was But like Leslie Nielsen always looked like kind of an old guy who could get himself into doofy situations or do dumb shit I never get that when I watch Liam Neeson and I'm also just appalled by the idea that this movie is 90% fresh. But then I start looking at all the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, every movie is 90% fresh. And you can't convince me that all the movies that are in the theater

are great. You can't convince me that The Bad Guys 2 is great. Like, I just don't think people want to give negative reviews anymore. I kind of think that's where we are. I think we're in an era where people just don't write bad reviews for movies. So they just write good reviews for movies. I guess it's easier to write a good review for a movie and have people come at you and say it sucks versus you write that a movie sucks and then everybody comes at you and says you're a piece of shit for saying this movie sucks. I'm looking for movies that have crappy reviews on here.

Even the bad ones. So, like, Jurassic World Rebirth is 51%. Taryn Egerton and She Rides Shotgun, 84%. Like the only movies they'll give bad reviews to are, like, dopey horror movies. Like, I Know What You Did Last Summer, 36%. Home, whatever that is, it looks like it's some sort of wacky horror movie, 29%. But if it's a movie that seems like it tries at all, it's like, no, at least 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Like here's some movie I've never heard of called Eddington, and it looks like it stars Jeff Bridges, and it looks like it's Jeff Bridges playing the same Jeff Bridges character that Jeff Bridges Plays in everything and it has Pedro Pascal. That's the other thing Someone suggested that Pedro Pascal would have been good in that role and you know what? He may have been and also that wasn't Jeff Bridges. I take that back. I think that was Joaquin Phoenix my bad, but I take that back. I think that was Joaquin Phoenix my bad, but someone suggested Pedro Pascal And I think he would work in that role because like he's a good-looking enough guy Whatever but like you're used to seeing him play kind of a doofy character where you could buy that he'd be dumb like when You watch that movie with him and Nicolas Cage the weight of unbearable talent or whatever like I

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Recycle that same thing I didn't buy Liam Neeson, and that's why I didn't buy the movie. It was fine It was watchable. I laughed there were some moments that were really good, but big picture, I just didn't fully embrace Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin. And because of that, I was just kinda like, eh. And the fact that it's a 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, we're just giving good reviews to everything now.