🎬 The Naked Gun (2025)

Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we? 🎞️

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☣️ ⚠️ TOXIC CONTENT WARNING ⚠️ This film is raunchy, crude, and unapologetically offensive in ways that may rub people the wrong way. From absurd innuendo to questionable background gags, The Naked Gun (2025) gleefully pushes boundaries—sometimes too far. It’s important to go in knowing this movie thrives on shock-value and parodying problematic tropes. If you’re sensitive to raunchy humor, adult content, or dark comedic absurdity—this may not be your movie. Heck this movie says the R word, yes that word.


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Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) has inherited the name and the chaos of his late father’s legacy. After a bank robbery and a mysterious suicide, Frank begins uncovering a plot involving a dangerous billionaire named Richard Kaine. Turns out, Kaine wants to “reset civilization” using a mind-altering device set to trigger on New Year’s Day. Drebin has to stop him with the help of Captain Ed Hocken Jr. (Paul Walter Hauser) and love interest Beth Davenport (Pamela Anderson).

The film is packed with action, satire, and gags so chaotic they’d make the Zucker brothers proud (and possibly a little concerned).


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Character Rundown

Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. – Stoic, deadpan, unintentionally destructive. Carries the legacy of his father while saying absolutely bonkers things with a straight face.

This cop is so dumb he can’t even come up with a good-sounding nickname for Beth, he names her Cherry Roosevelt Fat Bozo Chomping Spaghetti, yes that’s a name he comes up with.

Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport – Sister of the murder victim turned romantic interest. She keeps up with the madness shockingly well.

Paul Walter Hauser as Capt. Ed Hocken Jr. – Frank’s loyal sidekick, comic relief, and partner in caffeine-fueled crime.

Danny Huston as Richard Kaine – Tech billionaire villain with a God complex and a doomsday device.

Kevin Durand as Sig Gustafson – The muscle. Plays it serious until it’s suddenly not.

CCH Pounder as Chief Davis – The classic fed-up-with-everyone boss.

Let’s be honest: Liam Neeson has been a parody of himself for over a decade now. The man practically invented the modern “angry dad with a gun” subgenre. Ever since he famously growled:

> “If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money.
But what I do have are a very particular set of skills—skills I have acquired over a very long career.
Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”



…it’s like Hollywood went, “Cool, now say that in every movie.”

From Taken to The Commuter to Cold Pursuit to Memory, Neeson’s career post-2008 has basically been one long dramatic reading of variations on that speech — only now with more snow, more trains, and increasingly implausible bad guys who keep underestimating a man with the world’s most gravelly vocal cords and least flexible knees.

So in that context? Casting him as the next Frank Drebin is weirdly perfect.
This film doesn’t just parody the “serious cop” trope — it parodies the Liam Neeson Serious Cop Extended Universe™.

The fact that this man, who once threatened a group of human traffickers with a phone and a whisper, now starts a movie by disguising himself as a child and saying “your ass” to a bank robber?
Chef’s kiss. Cinema.
It’s like he finally got tired of being memed… and decided to be the meme.

And it works. Because he’s in on the joke now.




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Pacing / Episode Flow

This movie starts strong with one of the most outrageous intros of any comedy in years and barely lets up. The pacing is energetic, though some scenes intentionally drag out gags past their expiration date just to see if they’ll still land—which surprisingly works more often than not.


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Pros

Liam Neeson commits HARD. He plays it with complete seriousness, making every dumb moment funnier.

The gags are relentless and layered. From slapstick to wordplay to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it jokes in the background, there’s something for every flavor of chaos.

Hysterical sight gags and callbacks to the original series while adding a modern absurdist twist.

Strong supporting performances—Hauser and Anderson nail the tone.



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Cons

Some jokes toe the line of being too much (turkey juice, anyone?).

Third act leans so hard into absurdity it may lose some viewers.

May be hard to catch every gag in theaters due to crowd laughter. This is definitely one you’ll want to rewatch with subtitles or alone just to catch the background humor.



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Final Thoughts

The Naked Gun (2025) is an absolute blast and one of the most unhinged, hilarious reboots I’ve seen. It doesn’t try to modernize too hard—it leans into the dumb and doubles down. While the jokes can be a bit much and occasionally problematic, I can’t deny I had a great time. It’s a high recommendation from me—but I strongly suggest you wait until it’s available to stream or own. Between background chaos and crowd laughter, it’s nearly impossible to catch everything in theaters.

Also, I genuinely wonder how this film will land with Gen Z—y’know, the generation that decides whether a movie is good or not based entirely on if it’s “cringe.” If it’s cringe? Instant trash, apparently. But here’s the twist: this film wants your cringe. It thrives on it. It marinates in it. It looks you dead in the eye and says, “Yeah, that joke was dumb. And now here’s another one.” The Naked Gun reboot isn’t trying to be cool. It’s trying to make you laugh, groan, and question if the writers are on something. Spoiler: they absolutely are—and it works.


Rating: 9/10


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🔥 Spoiler Warning 🔥

You’ve been warned. What follows is completely unfiltered chaos.


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The film opens with a deranged bank robbery where Liam Neeson is disguised as a little girl, rips off the mask, and growls “Your ass.” From there it’s chaos: stunt dummy fights, neck snaps, and a dummy being used as a weapon.

Frank’s apartment features the now-infamous turkey juice gag, where a neighbor mistakes oven-scrubbing and food-prep as NSFW acts. Add in a dog, a baster, and a voyeur with night vision—it’s chaos.

Coffee is a constant. Every cop drinks it, discards full cups, and immediately grabs another. In the background, someone walks out of a freezer marked “Cold Cases.”

The villain’s plot device? Literally called the Plot Device. It’s going to regress people into feral lunatics at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

And now: the third act.

Frank and team sneak into the villain’s operations base. Hauser poses as a bartender and gives a child a beer. On-stage, the opera distraction lets Frank infiltrate the security room, tripping, squeaking, tumbling—yet no one notices until his phone rings.

The Plot Device is activated at a stadium. All hell breaks loose. Frank rides an owl (his reincarnated dad?!) who poops on the villain’s face mid-flight.

Frank punches the villain in the chest who whines about being hit in the “soft part.” The villain then tries to fly away using a wrist-rocket… only to smash his face into a ceiling lamp.

Earlier, Frank interrogates a guy in a fake hospital, which turns out to be a fake warehouse set. Then that turns out to be a surveillance room. Then that is a hologram and the woman running the operation gets arrested for labor violations. Layers on layers.

There’s a love montage, then a literal threesome with a snowman, which turns into a horror sequence where the snowman tries to murder Frank with his empty inhaler. The woman decapitates the snowman and its head melts in a hot tub while they kiss.

The ending scene has Frank and his girlfriend toasting at a tropical resort. Everyone else freezes—literally. She yells, Frank breaks the fourth wall, and punches the screen.