The Reel Rejects - THE NAKED GUN (2025) IS GUT BUSTINGLY HILARIOUS!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

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We have just finished the Naked Gun 2025. If you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, make sure you're going to give us five stars. Also, we want to thank the people over at Prepper for cutting down and punching out these highlights so the people on YouTube can witness them with their own eyes. now I think we're going to get into the questions sent in by the patrons before we do that we're in checking with our feelings okay see how we felt about this experience started with Andrew last time so we're going to start with Greg this time what are your thoughts on the new naked gun Greg 2025 uh I think this is at minimum the second best naked gun and minimum might be my favorite not sure yet it's new it's more modern

and so it's a little bit more to my sensibilities of today whereas like experiencing the original naked gun is more you know you got to kind of put yourself in a bit of a time period of when the releases you know so there's with this there's none of that like prep in the brain I got to do to enjoy the film but yeah I thought it was it sets out to be a comedy and I was laughing pretty much throughout the whole thing.

This was a really funny movie. Liam Neeson, I got some opinions about, but I thought he was amazing. And I appreciate how the original Naked Gun movies were more of like this one type of cop drama genre that would splice in, like, noir, and a bunch of, like, crazy bits. But I really feel like a lot of the mistakes from Part of... three, they did not apply here.

They knew when to do jokes, when not to do jokes. It wasn't excessive. I think they really lean genre heavy, multi-genre heavy, and they would show that off with the way the cinematography was, with the tones they would mix in from spy to action, the body cam, to, you know, referencing some Nolan looks as well. and I really feel like they understood the assignment here that we're doing a thing that's a multitude of action genre of today

even modernizing it with how all these movies are like tech billionaires of the bad guys and so it's like and it's also not dating itself it was weird so like jokes are like Tevo's a joke and but it's not outdated I think and I feel like this is something where it has that ability where people might experience like us naked gun 20 years from now that I think 20 years from now

people could experience this and still really have fun without it feeling like it's solely a time capsule of the 2000s or some shit like that so yeah I think they did an amazing job this was one of the funniest comedies I've seen in like a modern day and in years

honestly it was a really funny movie I thought it was really great yeah I am inclined to agree I am also inclined to agree when they announced this film I was really nervous because I really like this franchise a lot granted the third film was a little on the weaker

side for me but I love the delivery in every scene basically that Leslie Nielsen you know the way he portrayed the character of Ranked Revenue and I love Liam Nees and he's a very versatile, very great actor I was just a little concerned

and how he is going to portray the role and I got to say his deadpan humor and how he did this the absurdity and now he did it as well is like so perfect and he knew when to like hold back and went to like embrace the absurdity as well and i i loved it so much he was fantastic so i'm i'm so glad that like i worried for nothing and you know just uh because i knew like action sequence wise like i had nothing to worry about because i'm such a big fan at least of the first taken film

so i knew leiam nison was going to be great there he's a great dramatic actor as well So, you know, from that perspective, but again, this is such a specific style in which Leslie Nielsen did this role as Frank Derebin. So, like, that was my biggest concern. And I'd say within like 10, 15 minutes of watching Liam Nees, I'm like, he understands how to do this. And he's also making it his own while also honoring, you know, the character that his father was playing. So a fantastic job by him. I also thought Pamela Anderson, she was really great. And I think Greg said at best.

She really had her own agency. She wasn't a damsel in distress. And I thought she was very charming and charismatic in the role. I love how active she was in the film, too. And also, like Greg said earlier, as well, I'm glad she got a role like this, you know, just to highlight how terrific of an actor she is. I really liked her character as well.

And I thought she was extremely pertinent to the plot, you know, with her brother being that. It was very personal for her, like the stakes. So, and I think the call, and I think too a lot of the callbacks sometimes callbacks can be very obnoxious because we're just going to have a callback to do a callback

which I still love because they're callbacks and you know me Mr. Reference man but like these callbacks were actually again they were pertinent to the plot and I think still the heartbeat of the film while there was actually a story here that I thought was interesting to tell and it's relevant to the times we're in now

just like in surveillance and tech billionaires as Greg was just mentioning but like I still think the heartbeat of the film was the romance and like that's where i was emotionally most invested in was frank and beth i really bought the relationship and it makes sense and there was a lot of metanus going on too in the film as well for instance like one scene in this particular when they were having all the sons of all the previous characters and the j simpson's character guy goes no uh but like the actual metanus too is like when leam frank drevin's talking about uh or frank drevin

he's talking about how lonely he is in real life and he's not ready to ever love again and it's like that's Liam Neeson and I'm sure many of you know that in real life I think it's Natasha Richardson was his wife she tragically and sadly passed away I believe it was in a some snowboarding or some kind of skiing accident or something like that

where she hit her head on a rock and Liam Neeson I don't think he was really like it was hard for him to love again and he found love in real life while making this movie with Pamela Anderson so the fact that like he was like you feel that met in this and like actually translated into real life. I'm like that really spoke to me and I'm so happy that both of them were able to find that and you I think it translates on the screen like when you really feel that chemistry between the two of them. And also too I really like the villain in the first movie a lot. I know he didn't he was a lot more serious in the role but and this one was kind of balanced between the serious and the comedy but I actually like that. I like that there was that balance in there. So I think what this film did really well. is it paid homage and respect to the first film

while also doing its own thing and also keeping it really compelling and interesting at the same time and also it did the thing that was supposed that every comedy is supposed to do it was freaking hysterical I think you know at the end of the day whether like a story is compelling

whether characters are great a comedy at the end of the day is supposed to just make you laugh out loud and I feel like this film did that a lot So I really enjoyed this film a great deal. Yeah, no, I agree with both of your sentiment. It's funny because I remember what I saw, the trailer for this initially.

I believe it was before Andrew and I were recovering the original Naked Gun movies. And I saw it, and I was like, okay, this is cute. It didn't really make me laugh that much. So I was a little concerned about watching it in general. And then you watched the naked guns. I got to experience those, and those were hilarious. and so now we're here watching this.

And, you know, I didn't know why or for what particular reasons, but I knew that this movie was getting really great critical reception. So watching it now, I completely understand. I think this did an amazing job of capturing the spirit of the original movies while also trying to do its own thing, modernizing it, finding this interesting tone between what is serious and what is the actual, you know, plot mechanics of a film, what is the tone of the genre

they are trying to spoof? Well simultaneously doing the spoof thing and doing it well, not in the way that they did in the 2000s or the early 2000s were just like hyper spoof, extreme slapstick and whatnot but making jokes that

are not even referential but more so funny for the context in which they're happening in within its own internal logic of a like the chili dog thing had me dying that was so freaking funny

that had me crying and then you just get all kinds of really great bits in here I really liked the fact that the villain side of things was funny this time around I felt like in the original naked gun that sort of dragged for me a little bit because it was kind of taking a break

from the rest of the tone of the movie to really kind of set the grounding of its stakes you know have it feel like a a film, but everything else felt very much in tone of the ridiculousness in which the world wasn't happening.

That got to spread across the entirety of the film without feeling tiresome and without feeling like it was overboard. I never checked the clock or our watches once in this movie. I mean, not that we could, but we have a roadcast right here so you can see how long the time is and sometimes movies are dragging.

I was like, okay. But I didn't look at it at any point in this because I was thoroughly invested I think Liam Neeson is someone who's known traditionally for doing things that are more serious and more badass. So the fact that he was able to pitch himself in the key of comedy and do it extremely well, I was not only very impressed with, but was surprised by because I had never associated him with being a comedic actor. And same with Pamela Anderson. She was obviously a sex symbol and our youths and, you know, of the 80s and whatnot. her make this return and things like

The Last Showgirl, which I have not seen, but I've heard great things about. And then in this movie, I'm happy that we are in an age where people that are associated for one thing can now be evolved to do other things outside of the box they're originally

associated with. And I appreciate that Hollywood is giving people like Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson a chance because I feel like both of them had a sort of lull in their careers as of late. think Liam Neeson has kind of done more straight to streaming or VOD movies and I like the fact that Liam Neeson who made it really big and taken is back in a really good film like I'm so happy that

he can get a win as an actor again and I'm happy that we can get good comedies again I feel like nowadays that we're we get these comedies that are based in a lot of heart or like based with some semblance of drama but this is straight up a silly comedy from start to finish and I like the fact that that we can get one of these in 2025 and it feel very authentic and what it's trying to do without having to, not subvert, but add this additional thing as like a hook, like the comedy itself is the entirety of the hook. And I really, I really loved it. I'm hoping we can get more of these movies, more types of these movies. And I like the fact that it was true to the original modernized and you know it didn't do as many of the you know of offensive things that

some of the other movies did but i feel like they did some of them in a way that was that was tasteful and that was still really funny like the the scene where the one character used the r word like that there was one other joke later on um but yeah i think they they walked a really great line and i'm excited to see whatever comes next from both the team and the naked gun franchise. All right, guys. So without further ado, we're going to get into these patron questions, so let's rock. All right, Hunter Preston, do you think this one's humor is on par with the other naked

guns, or was it one a bit lackluster? Was this one a bit lackluster? I thought this was great. I think this is probably my either first or second favorite movie. I think you said you're about the same on that. I'm in that same boat first or second as well. And yeah, I think it also, it did such a great job. Like I said, it had that balancing.

I think what like the third movie, even though I still found it to be very entertaining, I think that third movie had a problem with balancing. It was just joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, and didn't know when to stop. Whereas this film, again, knew how to do that balancing act. And I think like for me, and I didn't mention this too in regards to Liam Neeson's performance.

I love what he was doing with just paying homage to Leslie Nill. And he really felt like, you know, Frank Drebben Jr., when he was taking things so literally, like, I love that kind of humor in this universe. It was so damn good and it was so well written. It was really sharp humor. Yeah. So I would say it was completely on par, if not better. Definitely better than the third movie, but definitely on par, if not better than one and two.

But I loved it, and I would say it's for sure one of my favorite comedies in quite some time. So definitely, yeah. What about you guys? Greg, do you expand on your feelings? No, I mean, there's thoughts I have that I could reserve for other questions, but I feel like you guys covered it. All right. Cool. Thank you for the question, Hunter.

Appreciate you. All right, Alex, the Naked Gun. Is there a remake project you would like? Akeva, Akeva Shaper? To tackle next. After this, and Chip Endale Rescue Rangers, it seems clear he's got the ability to do justice to these classic properties. Yeah, Austin Powersport. That'd be a good one.

I'm with Greg on that one. Yes. I want to see that. They've been talking about making the sequel for a very long time. They have, even though Jay Roach has directed the first three. That's a good thing. use something a little bit more fresh and I think

I mean I love those movies I think they're all I think all three are good but I feel like if they wanted to go with and there's even a bit here that straight pulled up for pulled from off the house yeah the night vision one yeah yeah those x-ray vision goggles

whatever the hell so yeah I think this would be I think he would know how to do it like with Chip and Dale rescue Rangers I didn't realize he did that one which is great awesome great movie he knows how to commit to genre and find the humor like he's really good at at detecting that and

and paying homage without it just feeling like a parody of itself like it that's i i i likened him more to how edgar right did the trilogy of genre spoof movies of he they live in the genre first and then the humor follows and that's why i kind of like this one more than the other naked gun movies i actually paid more i thought i was actually more engaged in the actual plot. Yeah. And this one and the other ones, like the other ones feel very much

like they have sketches that are orchestrated and they fit it into a plot. Whereas this one I was like, I'm not saying they thought about the plot first, but I definitely was actually paying attention to the plot and the villain and shit way more than I did in the other ones. For sure.

I got one. How about another Mike Myers proper? Let's go with Wayne's World Three. I would go with that because it's been a long time. I think the first one was directed by Penelope Spheres in 1992, the second one was directed by a director no one's ever probably heard of named Stephen Surgick in 1993. I would love

another third one. You could see the three, see when they're in their older age and just, I could see Garth right now, Wayne, my prostate. But yeah, no, I think, again, was it a Vicka Schaefer? He, you know, again, I think I said it best when I described this film. He knows how to pay

homage and respect while also doing his own thing and modernizing. So, I would love to see And also too I think those films were so ahead of its time in terms of they had this digital access show

and can you imagine like in the YouTube sphere and like times now I think Wayne's World would be great now seeing them in their older age like embrace 2006 27

whatever year they came out so I would love to see a Vika Akiva Akeep sorry Miss Brownson I'm kidding me I would love to see

Akiva Schaefer tackle Wayne's World 3 I think that would be a fun property for him to go for. Yeah, man. It's funny because obviously he did Naked Gun here. I think John and I have only watched the first one, but a police academy would be fun. A new, oh, a new Blues Brothers would be awesome.

I would love to see another Blue Brothers. And, you know, if they could find a way to do it in a way that is not grading, which I feel like I trust his directorial style and his creative sense. abilities those movies we used to get in the 2000s that were like other spoof movies that weren't specifically the scary movie ones or like epic movie or disaster movie if you can find a way to make that funny today i would love to see those i remember really having a affinity for those when i was a kid um so yeah i'd be down to to see something of that thing um yeah man thanks for the question alex all right rejugation we'd be coming off summer i'm still

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Are you one? From Jane Roads. Thank you, Jen, for being a Royal Reject and for asking a question. It felt really good to laugh at a comedy in theaters again. My question is, do you all have a favorite bit or gag from the movie? My favorite is the Snowman gag had me crying and laughing. That was such a good one. Nothing's going to stop us now from Start by Starship.

Oh, I love that song. Do we have a favorite bitter gag? The one with the Chili Dog is. That was my favorite. I don't know. Dude, that met a moment with shaking his head, nose being, oh, geez, that was pretty damn hysterical. I'd have to think about it for a sec. Do you guys have one?

Do you have one, man? Mine is the snowman gag bit. That was just, like, purely to my exact sensibility of the kind of sketch. Like, we used to make a lot of sketches here, and those are, we would always end up just going down some random horror route. So, yeah, like, the way that just kept evolving because I was like, yeah, I get it. It's, it's homageing how it was before, and I was, I was semi-checking out because I was like, okay, are we just redoing a bit? And I think that's where a lot of the great surprises come in is whenever you think they're just rehashing a bit, they end up surprising you with some, like, random left turn. And that was one of the bits where it's like, not only do, okay, all right, it's having a three way, that's funny.

But then to go into like, oh, it's a jealous three, that's like the obsessive, lustful, erotic thriller movie now. I thought that was genius, and that was a hilarious, hilarious bit. You say yours, but I've thought of mine. I think the chili dog was my favorite because I've been there many times from just, like, in the middle of something, I'm like, oh, God, it hit. And, yeah, it just even happened on reaction sometimes. I was just like, oh, God, I didn't one with Craig recently. Yeah.

Which one? I want to know. No, no. Don't say. I'm not going to say for that. I'll tell you guys after. But I was, like, half we see the movie, I was like, oh, my God, I have to shit so bad. Craig, pause the movie, Greg!

Damn it! But also, well, driving, so I really resonated with his pain, and then him showing somebody that's experienced, not knowing what the experience was, and the ridiculousness of him shooting his gun in the air, so he could skip the lining out of the bathroom. It murdered me in such a special way. I'm going to have to get... But also the snowman, it was my second favorite. I'm going to have to get a gun for that specific reason, because I have to get some more

and go badly. I'm going to go with the Mission Impossible Spoof, because it was. wasn't just spoofing that specific scene. It's the way they submer how they it was a subversion of expectations on just after that like did you get all that

and then another did you get all that on that afterwards? I was just laughing so hard because I wasn't expecting that after. That was my third favorite. I would say that scene was hysterical. So I would go with that one probably because it like it had a reference for me and then a subversion of expectations twice. So I would go

that one. I think my favorite just joke is when they're trying to narrow down the guy he shot in the back and at the second it's like he nails it down to one white guy. He's like so excited about it. Yeah. That's funny. That was really funny. Yeah. That's a like

especially with the way like cops were more revered and put on pedestals back then and a certain in a sort of way, especially in media. And this one takes jabs at you know, the corruption of police and what police

brutality and shit they get away with now. But without, like, making a statement. We're cops, we can do whatever we want. Like, the whole thing with, like, the internal, like, we're going to take accountability and these cops are going to be punished, but they're just, like, on vacation. Yeah.

Like, things like that. It's a good, there's a good ways to make fun of the real world without it, like, feeling like they're shoving a message down my throat. For sure. Yeah. Thanks for the question.

All right, Jay Rushton. What up, Jay? Naked Guns, 125. Okay, what, okay, what you of the very end and what means you laughing? What did you think of the very end? It's a lot of missing words. Yep, I was like, all right, we're going to find it. But thank you, Jay Rush and sending you the question.

Yeah, man. I think we all said ours in the previous one, but yeah. You just said it of what you thought of the very end. I think he's talking about the bit with the pool at the internal affairs. I think that's what he's talking about, right? Yeah, it was great. I love that. And I'm happy that we're in this position

where we need to directly respond to what Frank is saying as the audience. So that was really fun. Yeah, and the fact that he was breaking the fourth wall and also everything was paused and frozen. I thought that was, again, I think this film did such a great job being so, again, balancing comedy and action and all that and the drama, but also in the personal stakes,

but also, too, it was, I just, I love when it knew when to, like, do stuff like that, break the fourth wall and be inventive, like, with its action or be inventive with its comedy. And, like, I appreciated shit like that. So, that was great. Yeah, man. Thank you so much for the question. Thanks, Jay. Appreciate you, dog.

It's a good point about the action. The action is actually pretty surprisingly cool. Yeah. It's really inventive. Like, that one where he was just the weight line surfing. There's some really fun action. The trope of, like, not killing innocence. Yeah, yeah.

You know, like, oh, I can't use, so he just uses the clips as, like, a weapon. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very, very fun scene and cool at the same time. All right, from Resonance Z. Let's clap again to make it easier for the editors. Resonance Z. Thank you for being a realerjic for asking a question.

We appreciate it. Always glad to have a plain, fun movie to watch. I love the originals and quote them from time to... time, and I hope to find things to quote from this one as well. Question. What is it about the characters playing it straight in a movie like this that makes it funny?

Look at me? Well, I mean, it's the simple basics of that there's a that's how you sell an absurd premise. If you're in on the joke, it's called that's what they call it committing to the bit. You know, sometimes

you got comedians who really do commit to the bit, but you're also played in a way where they're very much aware they're in a comedy. Like, I actually really love Will Ferrell, but every time I see him, I'm like in a comedy, I get the sense he's aware he's in a comedy. And

they, you know, like to take Leslie Nielsen, who was a dramatic actor, and to place him into airplane, which eventually evolved into his, you know, other comedic roles naked gun included, I would say a similar sense, you know, Seth MacFarlane produced this movie, and Seth McFarland, if you watch Family

guy and American dad he's obviously very much influenced by the naked gun movies and there is this one brilliant scene in ted too uh where uh Liam neason makes a cameo and yeah because he worked with him in the million ways to die in the west but there's this other scene where he's like buying lucky charms that's all i'll say if you haven't seen it and it is easily my favorite bit in the whole film and it's because of how straight he plays it yeah and and i think this is what like movies like Airplane and Naked Gunn Champion and where some of the other movies like what Aaron was talking about from the 2000s really failed at

and I think the director was also aware that it can't just be the actor who knows how to play it straight and take it seriously that's why I was so impressed with the direction because the direction knew how to like visually capture to make it serious right from the opening credits with the studio logos of how

like dreadful and serious it is because it's about tension and release and and that's where I think like naked gun three fails is like it's so masturbatory and it's jokes and there's no tension it's just all release you know and so I think uh Liam Neeson is is perfectly cast for this I do think that he was a this is weird because as as perfect as I thought he was when you compare him to Leslie Nielsen I felt like Leslie Nielsen had a bit more of a like Liam Neeson's more intense

you know he's got the growl in his voice to gravel and he's he's way more intense and he leans more into that like hard edge cop whereas leslie nelson plays a very yeah plays a very film noir leslie nelson and i feel like there's a little bit more range leslie nelson whereas liam nison was very much this one thing the whole time uh but at the same time i've never seen him in a role where he would have scenes where he's smiling as much as he is and laughing as much as he is and it's kind of rare so yeah i mean i i think that that's the art of it is you commit to the seriousness and it allows for the tension and release because you need the tension. And when there's no tension, the joke doesn't work as well.

So, yeah, that's why I think it works. Yeah, I agree with what you were saying. I feel like Leslie Nelson definitely played it as a serious cop who believed he was good at his job. And he, Liam Neeson treated it as like an action star, but played to the key of comedy, which I think really allowed it to work very well but yeah if all the characters in your movie believe everything they're saying everything they're doing and they're not on the joke that's what adds to it because they're coming at it

from a place of sincerity even if that sincerity is played at the key of something that is more abstract or something that is more light or funny but yeah I think that is really what makes it what it is and all of the characters did that Even in the most ridiculous of scenes, like when Liam Nees sits in the bedroom, they're still having that very much, you're on suspension scene, but in the context of him invading her home and the fact that they have this rapport as characters

wanting the best for her husband, which just makes it funny given the context of what is happening, both in the scene prior and the scene that we're actually having the fallout of what happened in the prior scene. So, yeah, yeah. I think that that is what makes it what it is, as long as the characters don't know that they're a comedy you can make it as weird or ridiculous as you want because they believe everything that's happening yeah that's why i appreciate it again i was saying earlier his deadpan finesse and how much he was leaning into the absurdity but also again that's why i use that word balance so much if he's just joking the entire time i don't think it would work as much i just think it'd be

too much so uh again i i the thing that i was most nervous about coming into this was not because i didn't believe in Liam Neeson as an actor, obviously, but I'd not really seen his comedic jobs, and he has great comedic timing, at least in this film. He was terrific, and I'd actually, I would really like to see him do some more comedies, actually, after watching this. I'd be very interested, because obviously, you know,

there were parts of this, he definitely made his own, and also while still honoring Leslie Nielsen's performances, he was playing his son, which makes total sense. So that's why I'd love to see him do some original comedy as well. I think he's beyond capable after watching this film. So I really, again, I really enjoyed his performance. He's great. Definitely, yeah, Matt.

Really quick before we end it. One thing. Okay. Rotten tomatoes, that's all we're going to do. What do you guys got? Just go critics only, first. 90% critics. Okay.

Yeah, I'll meet Aaron at that. 88. Okay, close. Audience. 90%. 92. 73. Oh, okay.

people who automatically go Ah, damn it, wow, that's 30 or 28% or 27% All right, you guys, that'll do it for us here today. Thank you so much for watching. Let us know your favorite moment from The Naked Gun in the comments below, and we'll see you guys in the next one. Doses.