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The Naked Gun reboot arrives this week to provide relief from superheroes, and as well as introducing the world to the latest celebrity couple, it seems to be reviewing surprisingly strong. Expectations from most Outposters were low, but the reviews and the scores say that maybe we were a bit hasty.
It is sitting at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes with many reviews heralding the return to a simpler time in comedy. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson also come in for praise.
Here is what the summary bullets have to say from the review sites:
“At its best, this new Naked Gun is a dumb, loopy delight, a return to the kind of comedy that was woefully taken for granted in its heyday and now barely exists at all.”
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
“That’s a delicate tango in the context of an increasingly rare studio movie that exists for no other purpose than to make people laugh, but it’s one this hilarious new take on the old ZAZ masterpiece pulls off with a rose between its teeth.”
David Ehrlich, Indiewire
“The relaunch of the classic comedy series captures exactly what made the original, and other movies from the team behind Airplane!, so essential: An almost non-stop onslaught of silly and random moments, always going for the belly laugh.”
Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
“Fall-out-of-your-seat-and-roll-on-the-floor hilarious. See it with the biggest audience you can find. It might just heal you. It might just heal the world.”
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
“A stupid-smart mix of clunkers, wordplay, old-school set-ups, prop humor, and left-field ideas doesn’t inherently make for a comedy classic…but it does prove how effective these films’ formula can be when followed properly.”
Jacob Oller, AV Club
“Director Akiva Schaffer and his co-writers keep the energy high and the gags absurd in an 85-minute barrage of hilarity that never stops to take a breath.”
Alonso Duralde, The Film Verdict
It is not all effusive praise, though. A few reviews talk about the movie struggling to keep up its gag ratio as it progresses.
“Even if the movie kind of stalls midway as Schaffer struggles to balance the gags with the action of an overly elaborate crime plot, there are enough laugh-out-loud moments to keep nostalgic fans of the earlier films happy.”
David Rooney, THR
“The early scenes are so shamelessly, stupidly funny, with a hit-to-miss gag ratio of about 75 percent, that you can’t help be disappointed as that ratio steadily sinks over the course of the movie.”
Ty Burr, The Washington Post
The Naked Gun is in early previews now, and opens fully tomorrow.
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