Synopsis
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
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Cast
- Leslie NielsenLt. Frank Drebin
- Priscilla PresleyJane Spencer
- George KennedyCaptain Ed Hocken
- O.J. SimpsonNordberg
- Robert GouletQuentin Hapsburg
- Richard GriffithsDr. Meinheimer / Earl Hacker
- Jacqueline BrookesCommissioner Brumford
- Anthony JamesHector Savage
- Lloyd BochnerBaggett
- Tim O'ConnorFenzwick
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
it’s consistently funny and inventive. - 80
The New York Times
The enthusiastic Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams style of movie parody is too rarely seen to prompt much head-shaking about gags that don't work. The entire film is justified by those gags that do succeed, beginning with a pre-credit sequence that is possibly one of the most blithely hilarious six or seven minutes of film stock ever exposed to light. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The plot exists to be disregarded, the characters are deliberately constructed of cardboard, the sight gags are idiotic, and the dialogue is dumb. Really dumb. So dumb you laugh twice, once because of how stupid it is, and the second time because you fell for it. - 70
Washington Post
Zucker, who collaborated with his brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams on such comedies as "Airplane!" and "Ruthless People," is working solo here. And aside from a flat patch midway through, he delivers as faithfully as Domino's pizza. In the limbo of comedy, few can go lower than Zucker without visibly straining. And the movie has a message: "Love is like the ozone layer; you never miss it until it's gone." - 70
Washington Post
A bit of advice: Get to "The Naked Gun 2½" on time and plan to stay till they turn the lights back on. The opening and closing credits alone are almost worth the price of admission. - 60
Variety
The Naked Gun 2 1/2 is at least two-and-a-half times less funny than its hilarious 1988 progenitor. But even if the laugh machine isn't operating at top efficiency, it still cranks out a few choice bits of irreverent lunacy. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Not quite as fresh as the first NAKED GUN, but what can you expect from a film subtitled "The Smell of Fear"? - 50
Austin Chronicle
What's missing is absolutely nothing. No joke is passed up or thrown away. There just might be a little too much.
