THE NAKED GUN | MOVIE REACTION! | FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

The movie is subtitled "From the files of Police Squad!" because it was based on a short lived TV series called Police Squad! (only six episodes were made). It starred the same cast apart from OJ Simpson, whose character of Nordberg was played by another actor, and was made by the same team that did this movie. Between Airplane! and this movie the team made another spoof called Top Secret!, which was a parody on spy movies and Elvis movies. It starred Val Kilmer in his first big role.

[@NightRanger-lz6tp]

Actually Leslie Neilsen and the actor who played the lab guy was the only cast members from the TV series to star in the movie. A different actors played the Captain and Nordberg.

[@monkut]

Yes, this movie is like a best-of of the bits in Police Squad. If you can find it the whole police squad series is worth watching.

[@victorfatalys1076]

Police Squad series is very funny, some gags were reused for the movies, but not everyone. Also, there was a guest star in every episode, the joke being that they only appeared a few seconds at the beginning and were never to be seen again. And at the end of the episode, they'd simulate a freeze frame by getting the actors take a pose and stop moving, of course it was obvious because there was always something moving in the background etc...

[@campagnollo]

The driving instructor is John Houseman. He’s very notable for instructing Juliard students and playing a very uptight law professor in “The Paper Chase” which earned him a Academy Award.

[@tempsitch5632]

“America’s favorite old fart” - Bill Murray’s character in Scrooged.

[@victorfatalys1076]

Great actor, he was blind when they made this movie and died shortly after. Also, he has been the acting teacher of Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve.

[@victorfatalys1076]

@@rickardroach9075 Because of his radar sense.

[@ajivins1]

'The Queen' was played by Jeanette Charles who made a living turning up as her in things. The Queen herself was a big comedy fan who loved stuff like this and stand up comedy!

[@stefankrautz9048]

she also was on The Smiths Album "The Queen Is Dead" on the front cover. :)

[@Gravydog316]

she just passed away RIP 🌹

[@CybrSlydr]

The bit with the $20 bill on the docks is one of my all-time favorite gags.

[@shainewhite2781]

One of the funniest action comedy movies ever made! It also pokes fun at the buddy cop genre too.

[@ZonnexNecton]

3:32 Holy smokes! I honestly never noticed that small detail of the luggages being thrown out like that. I mean I’ve seen that movie so many times since the 90’s, but this is absolutely the first time you pointed it out. Frickin’ awesome find😂

[@ThomasMurch]

I don't want to hype up the second Naked Gun movie, but I saw the end part of it when I was very young, and two of the jokes stuck with me for decades ... I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! 23:27 - Yep, there's a second (and third) movie - plus there's Police Squad, the short but very amusing TV series that the films are based upon.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Spoiler warning for Mary, so don't read this Mary, lol. But what were the two jokes?

[@ThomasMurch]

@@MiketheratguyMultimedia MILD, AND VERY VAGUE, SPOILERS BELOW I HOPE I'VE HIT THE RETURN KEY ENOUGH TIMES NOW Nordberg customising his pistol, and Drebin disarming the bomb.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

@@ThomasMurch Ah, okay. I think I know the gags in question.

[@claymccoy]

"I love it!"

[@DewJee2019]

The third Naked Gun movie (33 1/3) was released in March 1994. The Simpson Goldman murders were in June. OJ was generally popular prior to that.

[@JLOFlix]

Fun reaction! Thx, Mary!! Yes there are two more Naked Gun Movies, BUT, before you finish those other two. I HIGHLY recommend watching " Top Secret" from the same filmmakers! You'll LOVE it!!

[@themulattomaker2602]

Yes!!! Skeet Surfin'!

[@Xoferif]

"Top Secret!" (1984) is by the same people and very good indeed, if you need further cheering up. 😄

[@TornSoul062473]

I totally relate to the "need a lighthearted movie to pick me up" feeling. I usually go to my favorite feel good movies from the 80s like Short Circuit, Uncle Buck, The Goonies, Better Off Dead, Spaceballs, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...always snap me out of a funk or make me feel better when I'm sick.

[@senshix]

Airplane n gremlins for me

[@ajivins1]

@@senshix I'm a 'Carry On Screaming' and 'Hot Fuzz' man.

[@tempsitch5632]

I was wondering if you would mind if I asked out Beth ?

[@wubranch1]

This movie was before any of the OJ drama, and it was this movie that taught me about the profitability of controversy. When the murder of his wife became news this movie and it's sequel were a few years old, but when I went to the local Blockbuster with my parents the Naked Gun movies were showcased with several copies as if it were a new release, and all the copies were rented-humanity is shameless.Also, building contractors are always corrupt.

[@BubblyRainbows]

What are you talking about? Joel in "The Last of Us" said that everyone loves contractors! ✌🤓

[@SnabbKassa]

Paris Hilton and the Kardashians built empires on the power of "controversy"

[@ripeager9338]

Police Squad was the short lived spoof series that the naked gun movies came about from, Think of them as like 30 minute naked gun stories staring Leslie Neilson also

[@lurkerrekrul]

To "clear" someone means to prove that they're innocent. You might also hear the phrase "cleared of all charges", which means that all the criminal charges against someone were found to be baseless. Ricardo Montalban, the actor playing Ludwig, is most well known for starring the 1970s TV show Fantasy Island for seven seasons. He played Mr. Rourke, the owner/operator of a mysterious island where mostly wealthy people could go to live out their fantasies. It was heavily implied that there was a supernatural element as people often relived events from their young, appeared to go back in time, etc. The baseball player who tried to kill the queen is Reggie Jackson, a quite famous baseball player.

[@lobachevscki]

When Leslie Nielsen sadly passed away ESPN wrote an eulogy about Enrico Palazzo hahahaha.

[@maximillianosaben]

Oh god, this is the type of silliness that still makes people laugh, cause it is just so darn funny!

[@ChicagoDB]

There are some heavyweight/serious actors in the cast [much like “Airplane!”]… The driving instructor, John Houseman…and Ed, Frank’s police captain…both were “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar winners… And Leslie Nielsen had long been a successful dramatic actor as well.

[@Fred_L.]

Nielsen also had guest rolls in a number of great TV series, e.g. in MASH, Kung Fu and The Golden Girls.

[@ajivins1]

Don't forget KAAAHHNNN!

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Great reaction. 👍 Never thought I'd hear Mary say "Grab the penis!" 😂

[@harryrabbit2870]

"Just shut off your brain and enjoy the movie." Precisely! Well done, buddy. Glad you got the laugh you needed.

[@jeremyodwyer9232]

Loaded Weapon is also amazing. Same style. Stars Samuel L Jackson. Makes fun of Lethal Weapon so it helps if you've seen that first.

[@KenMasters.]

I wish Jim Carrey had Emilio Estevez's role, simply because he can do voice impressions of Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood, and Sylvester Stallone which is what Colt is a parody of.

[@Blackadderthefourth]

The opening on the boat is so good

[@user-dz6fy6qv2l]

"Hey.. it's Enrico Palazzo!!"

[@jaydisqus3353]

They were going to cast OJ as the terminator. The producers thought Americans wouldn't buy him as a murderer.

[@dIggl3r]

Oh no he didn!!

[@jaydisqus3353]

@@dIggl3r it's a fact I find amusing.

[@KenMasters.]

@@jaydisqus3353 OJ Simpson: "I'll show them, I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!!!"

[@Gravydog316]

that's so crazy lol

[@jomojojo6603]

It's so funny how all these reactors have no idea that the female lead is Elvis Presley's widow.

[@BarbaOlof]

A generational thing I guess. Apart from thinking of Elvis, I always think of her playing Jenna Wade in Dallas when I see her. I guess I’m old… :)

[@sparksdrinker5650]

I saw this movie a dozen times as a kid and I didn’t know

[@jomojojo6603]

@@BarbaOlof you're not alone, my friend hehe

[@Stevarooni]

Technically, his ex-wife since they divorced.

[@senshix]

Also I think she was his cousin or like 13 when they got together

[@The_RedVIII]

All 3 Naked Gun movies are great and worth watching!

[@ChicagoDB]

“You killed 5 actors - GOOD ones!” 😂😂

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

Leslie Nielsen is such a legend. So funny

[@spydude38]

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished." ~ Leslie Nielsen

[@johnwolfe7596]

@3:29 That may be the most visceral reaction I've ever witnessed to that joke.

[@TheSkeletor612]

The third one was the final movie, OJ did before his infamous trial

[@KenMasters.]

Remember that one comedy Dumb and Dumber? The "Hosehound with the Funbags" was the last woman OJ Simpson has been seeing before going to prison.

[@rburns9730]

O J was in a TV pilot called "The Frogmen" in 1994 where he was gifted a Navy SEAL team knife after training for the role of a retired SEAL team member. That knife went missing after the murders a few months later. The murder trial ended his acting career The Frogmen pilot was never aired.

[@mrtveye6682]

16:45 So true Mary. The dad of a friend of mine was the janitor in a slaughterhouse, and once he took us with him and showed us around. I must have been 8 or 9 at that time. Still remember that smell even over 40 years later. Was probably the only time as a kid where I really felt the need for a shower without my mom telling me to do so... 😅

[@Pinkielover]

She's glowing ,, hope your pregnancy is going well

[@rlevitta]

The woman speaking while Leslie Nielsen is going to the bathroom with his mike still on is Nancy Marchand who brilliantly played Tony Soprano’s mother on The Sopranos.

[@aresee8208]

The were 2 Academy Award winners in that movie, George Kennedy, Best Supporting Actor for "Cool Hand Luke," (1967), and John Houseman, Best Supporting Actor for "The Paper Chase," (1973). And, on a historical note, British Queen Elizabeth did attend a Major League Baseball game - as a guest of President George H W Bush - on 15 May1991. However, it was in Baltimore, Maryland, at old Memorial Stadium. (The Oakland Athletics beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-3.)

[@ChicagoDB]

Great cast…and always good for a laugh.

[@3DJapan]

OJ 's trial was 6 years after this film. He didn't do much acting since the trial.

[@johnnehrich9601]

He did do a lot of acting DURING the trial.

[@fiverx2159]

He did some “acting” in the documentary he made called “if I did it”.

[@subitman]

The main villain is Ricardo Montalbahn. He played the owner of Fantasy Island tv show where guests can fulfill their fantasies or learn from their sins. He was also famous for playing Kahn in Star Trek the original series. He reprised his role in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn which was a great movie.

[@aresee8208]

Ricardo Montelban was married to Georgiana Young, who was the younger half-sister of actress Loretta Young, who gave birth to actor Clark Gable's love child. There you go...

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

the pink panther movies were definitly the inspiration for these movies. and even better imho

[@lurkerrekrul]

Not only are there two sequels to this, there's also a six episode TV show called Police Squad! that the movies were based on. Also starring Leslie Nielsen.

[@tsmartin]

Finally ... somebody gets it. After watching so many "reactors" reacting to movies like this and trying to "make sense of it" it's refreshing to see someone just "turn off your brain" and enjoy the movie for what it is.

[@Hongobogologomo]

Oh this movies a gem.

[@Thea7972]

Sometimes you just need silliness & giggles!!! It’s medicine for the soul😂 Please please pleeeeease consider watching “My Father The Hero” with Gerard Depardieu & Katherine Heigl (1994) - it’s hilariously funny like this too & often gets overlooked. I think you’d love it! It’d make my year if you were able to react to it 🫶

[@TheFairyintheFishBowl]

That’s a great suggestion! 👌🏻

[@Cre80s]

The movies had a bigger budget/cast, but I really liked the TV series more. It was just a better format, imo. That whole short-lived genre was the height of comedy at the time, and being a silly teenager at the time, it really shaped our sense of humor, freed it up, basically validated all us kids with a weird sense of humor. This, Airplane, Top Secret (the best one of those movies), was a "whole thing" in the 80s. Weird was very in, and we LOVED it. The weirder the better. Anyway, the TV series was very short-lived, but just fit television more than a theater, because it felt more like they were twisting what we were used to more. A lot of new audiences literally would stumble into it unawares and were mind-blown. We would all talk about it over the lunchroom table in Jr. High, laughing our asses off simply TALKING about it. Great stuff, great memories.

[@jimspetdragons3737]

There are 3 movies in the series plus the TV series (6 episodes). The movie are all great.

[@LordFirekaze]

tHERE WERE MOMENTS THAT LEFT ME DYING!!!!!!

[@damiandorhoff719]

there are 2 more Movies and they are both worth checking out. Also check out Nuns on the run (1990) and Mousehunt (1997)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

The woman who walks into the office at 10:35 is the mother of the Zucker brothers (the directors). She has been in most of their movies, including Airplane! (she was the woman who tries to put on her lipstick during the flight and ends up with it all over her face) and even a more serious movie, Ghost (she was the woman who worked at the bank that Whoopi Goldberg talks to to withdraw the money).

[@NightRanger-lz6tp]

Now you have 2 more Naked Gun movies and 1 more Airplane movie to check out.

[@XeonAlpha]

7:23 BTW those are lion fish, they look all fancy (and maybe back then they were expensive) but they're a massively invasive species now. You can actually get paid to hunt them in Florida and the Bahamas, and they apparently make pretty good eatin'.

[@THOMMGB]

Mary! You’re the first person that noticed that Enrico Palazzo’s huge tuxedo fits Frank perfectly. Do check out the two Naked Gun sequels. They’re quite good. Also, you should read the screen credits. There’s some comedy gold in there. The chalk outline is only when you’re dead, but it’s still funny, floating on the water.

[@bartman9400]

I remember nostalgia critic reviewing this and there was a funny bit were the director didn’t think OJ Simpson was able to play a convincing enough killer. If only the jury thought the same.

[@davidvanriper60]

Thanks Mary...great movie...love your reactions God bless and hope you are feeling well... ❤❤❤❤

[@GameCarpenter]

OJ was a football player turned sports announcer, and because of his recognizability, he got some roles. All that is before the various charges, which basically ended his announcing career.

[@ericmyers853]

The Naked Gun?! Let’s go!

[@terryhughes7349]

Great reaction Mary. This was a fun movie. Have a great day!

[@TamagoSenshi]

"Everywhere I go, something reminds me of her"

[@robwealer5416]

All the actors had only done straight roles before..none had a comedic background. Will also take this moment to highlight the skills of Ricardo Montalban (Ludwig) and recommend a movie to react to ... Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan... he is brilliant in that.

[@Britcarjunkie]

I think she should watch the original Star Trek tv series episode, just to understand the film more.

[@prollins6443]

Hey Mary, i was in choir for 7 years and learned the United States anthem along with the Canadian anthem. You would be amazed how many people sing the anthems incorrectly. So many people off pitch, sharp, flat, etc... and these are "trained" musicians who just cant get it right!

[@autowaagh99]

The assassin statement is really true some girls in Korea were told they were on a prank show and killed a North Korean defector.

[@3DJapan]

The second one and the third one are just as funny.

[@Demigord]

You always applaud at the end of the anthem to cheer the game starting. Sometimes the singer. The Blackhawks (hockey) have an opera singer who does theirs, and Chicago has a tradition of going nuts the whole time. He sometimes does it for a baseball or basketball team, and people watching it get very confused

[@Jackosaurus01]

The Love Bug 1968, Walking with Dinosaurs The Movie 2013, Looney Tunes Back In Action 2003, Angry Birds 2016, Pixels 2015.

[@DewJee2019]

Naked Gun was released several years before the murder trial.

[@DavidB-2268]

Highly recommend watching the other two Naked Gun movies. But make sure you read the end credits of both, as there's lots of jokes hidden in the credits.

[@_Majoras]

11:20 i don't remember frank dropping in the background like that 🤣

[@samovarsa2640]

So - there are a great number of jokes in this film, some extraordinary blatant, and some subtle. And here's one that's so subtle, I didn't realize it until about a year ago. The drug that was most commonly shipped out of South America is NOT heroin.

[@richardwhite3041]

OJ Simpson was considered to star as the Terminator but didn’t get the part because the studio and director didn’t think anyone would believe he could be a cold blooded cyborg.

[@erictaylor5462]

7:30 Don't forget the rich Corinthian leather.

[@jhilal2385]

Some good comedies to lighten your mood: "Operation Petticoat" (1959) CaryGrant, Tony Curtis "Down Periscope" (1996) Kelsy Grammer, Lauren Holly, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn "Kelly's Heroes" (1970) Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Carol O'Conner "Grumpy Old Men" (1993) Jack Lemmon Walter Mathau, Ann Margaret, Kevin Pollack, Darryl Hannah, Burgess Merredith "Grumpier Old Men" (1995) Jack Lemmon Walter Mathau, Ann Margaret, Sophia Loren, Kevin Pollack, Darryl Hannah, Burgess Merredith "Johnny English" (2003) Rowen Atkinson, John Malkovich, QE2 double. 2 sequels "Milk Money" (1994) Ed Harris, Melanie Griffith "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998) Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, Temuera Morrison, Danny Trejo "Evolution" (2001) David Duchovney, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore "Shanghai Noon" (2000) "Space Cowboys" (2000) Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, James Cromwell. Directed by Clint Eastwood. "Coneheads" (1993) Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtin, David Spade "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (2006) Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson "So I Married An Axe Murderer" (1993) Mike Myers, Nancy Travis "8 Heads In a Duffel Bag" (1993) Joe Pesci, Kristy Swanson, David Spade good comedies for October: "Death Becomes Her" (1992) Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Catherine Bell "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000) John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Carey Elwes "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992) Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry, Thomas Jane, Ben Affleck, Hilary Swank "Army of Darkness" (1992) Bruce Campbell

[@SaraHeumphreus-jj6zy]

Police Squad was the TV show the movies were based on. Only 6 episodes but all of them great

[@coreyhendricks9490]

One of the greatest comedies ever made, cool reaction as always Mary, you have a good night sweetie 🥰❤️

[@Fantomex.]

Oh wow, she really deserved a win after everything 😂😂😂 happy for you mate

[@LordFirekaze]

I HEAR YOU GIRL!!!

[@evacombs9720]

If you're looking for another funny cop/mystery movie, Hot Fuzz, (if you like British humor) is great.

[@davidmeir9348]

The first one is the best and funniest, but The Naked Gun 2 1/2 is pretty close. So worth watching definitively.

[@danielchapman6032]

I would give police squad a watch too. It was a very short show run (at 6 episodes) but man I loved that show back when it was on. I also take it you haven't watched the 80's comedy Police Academy.

[@donadavs]

HOT SHOTS is probably my favorite comedy. I didn't see if you've done that yet, but 'twould be good.

[@johnk2495]

The Naked Gun 2 and 3 are also very funny.

[@BigBoss-tq3oc]

great video and R.I.P Leslie Nielsen great actor

[@billbabcock1833]

All three movies in the series are equally good.

[@dIggl3r]

*Nice beaver!* 😅

[@senshix]

Senshi needs a dancing mary compilation

[@redentortiongco5686]

I was a kid when i saw this movie..brings back some happy memories. Here are some more movies that you might find interesting...Baby's day out....Man of the house...HotShots part 1&2...Airforce One...G.I. jane....The Mummy franchise...Finding Nemo.

[@Thea7972]

I agree with Hotshots too! I’d really love to see Mary React to “My Father the hero” and “Housesitter” - both are guaranteed laughs (for me anyway!) Just good old fashioned silly laughter/ jokes/ comedy 😃

[@Lewis9700]

10:17 - "Clear" means to prove someone is innocent.

[@carlop.7182]

Thanks for your reaction. There are 2 others, if you're interested--Naked gun 2 and half & Naked gun 33 and third--same kind of jokes, same policemen, but different villains & investigations. I won't say more to not spoil anything for you, but if you need to laugh, consider watching them. For something different, but still silly, try Hot shots (Top gun parody). Have a nice day.

[@johnniekight1879]

Love the way you edit. Kudos!!

[@klyph]

Now that you've seen Aiprlane and The Naked Gun, I highly recommend Top Secret and Hot Shots. Same style of comedy from the same creators.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

I remember when I was young, really wondering what a donzerlee light was.

[@josephscally6270]

You made my day as well. Thanks.

[@acesfn7316]

There are 2 more and all worth a watch

[@tbmike23]

It's so strange in hindsight to see OJ in these movies. It wasn't at the time, but holy cow.

[@teresadilts7331]

This is one of Leslie Neilson funniest movie. Another great one is Airport 😅

[@michaelseelhoff9461]

A great movie to cheer up your mood. Please check out part two and three. There were also quit good as the first one in my opinion. Greetings from Germany

[@pinball1970]

Good stuff Mary, we love you

[@emwa3600]

Yes, all three of the NAKED GUNs have their winning points, and a few slow moments. These are always rewatchable, although I usually have my finger on the FastForward button. "Why bother?" Because there are so many gags that seeing them a second time gives audiences that chance to see those, too.

[@defrankbeuckelaer]

Thank you👍

[@TheForsakenEagle]

Don't worry. Corrupt construction contractors are pretty global.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

so true

[@Hamish_Whitehaven]

ich mag dein neeee, grüße aus Österreich....

[@rlevitta]

Instead of the murderer OJ Simpson being the black guy in the movie, they should have gotten someone more upstanding and moral...like Bill Cosby.

[@KenMasters.]

OJ Simpson was seen as also being upstanding and moral. He even got rejected as The Terminator because of this.