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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) returns for more madcap high jinks in this police-procedural spoof. Lieutenant Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.
22 July 1942, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
13 September 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 May 1938, USA
24 July 1984, Burbank, California, USA
3 July 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 June 1936, Brooklyn, New York, USA
3 February 1933, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
26 November 1933, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
23 October 1959, Downey, California, USA
July 1, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA
10 March 1921, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
May 06, 2014
What's at work here is the comedy law of diminishing returns: if you tell the same jokes over and over and over again, they become less and less and less funny.June 28, 2011
A nifty, crisp package, but not quite up to the standards of the original picture. A dildo drill can't solve every problem.January 01, 2000
The opening and closing credits alone are almost worth the price of admission.April 19, 2016
Raunchy, dated send-up of cop movies has lots of sex.January 11, 2008
Not quite as fresh as the first.January 11, 2008
A feeble sequel.May 06, 2014
Amusing even if the law of diminishing returns is starting to kick in.January 01, 2000
In the limbo of comedy, few can go lower than Zucker without visibly straining.January 11, 2008
Even if the laugh machine isn't operating at top efficiency, it still cranks out a few choice bits of irreverent lunacy.May 06, 2014
Nielsen combines B-movie earnestness, exuberant mugging, and a trouper's slightly desperate cheerfulness: he turns this rather alarming character into a sweet, ebullient lunatic -- albeit one who's hell on innocent bystanders.May 20, 2003
The enthusiastic Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams style of movie parody is too rarely seen to prompt much head-shaking about gags that don't work.