CINEMA: Fabius Burger
HAPPILY, Naked Gun 331/3 : The Final Insult is not the last in the series in which deadpan detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) gets into one scrape after another.
Reviewers should see at least one Naked Gun movie a year; they deconstruct other genres and show “serious” films to be really rather silly after all. There are continual, fun sight gags in the background; the filmmakers are pretty up to date, so viewers are kept on their toes.
In its way, the Naked Gun series is about other movies. One day when newspaper reviews are yellowed and forgotten, one will be able to turn to them for a tongue-in-cheek analysis of American films and their hype.