Reviews of Police Squad! (1982) and related work
- Spin-off: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
- Sequel: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
- Sequel: Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
Police Squad! (1982
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Six cases for local US law enforcement.
Police procedural parody. Not as tight as the first films, but ZAZ is ZAZ.
References here: Deadpool (2016).
‣ The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
It’s the density that does it.
References here: Day of Resurrection (1980), HyperNormalisation (2016), Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022).
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣‣ The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) – previously
Hard to believe this is still funny to me as an adult. But it is.
‣‣ Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
The biggest single drag is the homophobic end to Anna Nicole Smith’s character.