This second chip off the Naked Gun block follows the hallowed tradition of wallowing in stupidity. Still, it’s hard to hate a sequel whose ad copy contains the line “mostly all new jokes”.
The funniest parts of the film are the throwaways, like a newspaper headline that reads DYSLEXIA FOR CURE FOUND. Or when Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), now retired from the LAPD, tries to pull a supermarket shopping trolley out of a string of them that have been jammed together.
Beyond that there are the usual pardoes of hit movies (including The Untouchablesand Jurassic Park) and a bizarre plot about a terrorist (Fred Ward) who wants to blow up that most sacred of institutions, the Academy Awards.
Director Peter Segal spends a great deal of energy staging the climactic free-for-all of bullets and pratfalls at the Shrine Auditorium where Drebin mingles disastrously with stars of the calibre of Pia Zadora, Vanna White and Weird Al Yankovic.
To be honest, the finale of The Bodyguard was funnier!
Lt. Frank Drebin
Leslie Nielsen Jane Spencer
Priscilla Presley Ed Hocken
George Kennedy Nordberg
O.J. Simpson Rocco
Fred Ward Muriel
Kathleen Freeman Tanya Peters
Anna Nicole Smith Louise
Ellen Greene Ted Olsen
Ed Williams Papshmir
Raye Birk Clayton
Matt Roe Defense Attorney
Wylie Small Dr Eisendrath
Earl Boen Jason
Brad Lockerman Bobbi
Rosalind Allen Nurse
Charlotte Zucker Dr Kohlzak
Lois De Banzie Dr Roberts
Doris Belack Ann B. Davis
Herself Vanna White
Herself Weird Al Yankovic
Himself Pia Zadora
Herself Mary Lou Retton
Herself
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Peter Segal
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Muriel
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