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    Caught it yesterday. It is a riot!
    
    Be sure to hang around for the credits. Lots of good laughs in there
    too.
    
    Check your brain at the door and have a good time.
    
    -- Bill

    I agree with .1, check your brain and laugh the rest of your head off.
    
    The latest ("33 1/3") features a lot of movie parodies. It opens with
    a parody of "The Untouchables" baby-carriage-on-the-stairs scene. Be
    sure to watch O.J. in the background catching the kids.
    
    There's a half-hearted attempt at "Thelma and Louise" but it seemed to
    be heavily edited. And then there's THE SCENE from "The Crying Game"...
    
    There were no forays into "The part of town called Little Italy". YAY!
    
    Watch the credits. There's no closing sight gag, just odd credits.
    
      John

    And the "baby carriage on the stairs" was originally taken from the
    Soviet film "The Battleship Potemkin" by Sergei Eisenstein. The 
    scene in "The Untouchables" was a homage to that film.
    
    The parodies of the Oscar awards ceremony and the scenes of Drebin in
    "the clinic" are worth the price of admission. Very funny and, in the
    case of the Oscars, very timely.
    
    -- Bill

    I've been wanting to see 33 1/3 since the previews first came out - as
    somebody pointed out somewhere, if there were Oscars for trailers, that
    one would win it. [For those who may have missed it: the trailer opens
    with a woman in a long, flowing, "historical romance novel"-type gown
    running along a path that looks like an exceptionally scenic part of
    the Irish coast. The whole thing simply reeks "sumptuous period drama".
    Anyway, she races up to a cottage as if running to meet the love of her
    life, and just as she reaches the door, it slams open in her face,
    knocking her off the cliff into the surging waves. And Frank Dreben
    peers out, looking around in bewilderment - nobody there... Every time
    I've seen the thing I've thought it was a preview for "Scarlett" until
    that final scene. ;-)]
    
    -b

    That scene from the trailer is in the movie too. 
    
    -- Bill

    Naked Gun was spawned from a TV Show that only lasted 6 episodes.
    These "Police Squad" episodes are rentable at your local video store.
    There's two tapes - the first (Police Squad -Help Wanted) contains the 
    first three episodes and the second (name escapes me) contains the next
    three.  The first three are the best.  Leslie Neilson (sp?) is on the front
    of both.  One has him looking like he was just beaten up.  In all the
    episodes, just before the closing credits roll.  They do a freeze frame
    but they don't freeze the frame, the actors just stay in position and 
    pretend they're frozen as the credits roll, but you can see 'em blinking
    and basically doing a terrible job of acting frozen.
    
    The OPENing credits on these episodes are funny as hell.  They always have a
    special guest appearance of someone who gets killed instantly (so they
    never actually appear on the show). My favorite is Florence Henderson taking
    a cake out of the oven singing "put on a happy face" as she's being machine
    gunned to death :-).
    
    And there's this tall guy named Al who is often in the scene, but he's
    so tall that you never see his face.  All kinds of strange visual
    stuff.  The show didn't last because it was on TV and it was based 
    on visual gags that you had to watch.
    
    Steve
    

    
    	"So I stopped at one of those all-night wicker places ..."
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI

    
    	Or maybe it was "We would have come sooner, but your husband
    	wasn't dead yet."
    
    							GTI

    great lines.  Another thing to be noticed across the six episodes
    is the amount of trash barrels Frank hits with is Green Ford Galaxy.
    One in the first episode, two in the second and so on...  What were
    they planning to do if the show was a hit?  Kinda hard to keep track
    of. 
    
    And whenever he arrives at the scene of the crime (and hits the
    barrels) he always is narrating and the last thing ha always says
    is "My Boss was already on the Scene".
    
    His Boss was played by the same guy who played the (stupid) Police 
    Lieutennant in the (even stupider) movie, "See no Evil Hear no Evil".
    The guy is a master at the "blank stare".
    
    Steve
    

    I though the Green Ford was an LTD.
    
    
    Although it looks a bit like my Caprice.  Only not as ugly.  :)
    
    
    kim

    
    
    I, for one, loved the Japanese garden...
    
    And the sequence where a police detective at a crime scene is verifying 
    that the substance in a large plastic bag is cocaine by repeatedly dipping 
    then touching the tip of his finger to his tongue.  It cuts back to him 
    later and he's holding the bag (now half full) dancing around in a circle 
    to a 70's band on the radio, saying "Wow! These guys are great!"
                   

    My favorite lines:
    
    "Cigarette?"   "Yes, I know."
    
    (and when Dreben was undercover to bust up a protection racket)
    
    crook:  "Who are you and how did you get in here?"
    
    Dreben: "I'm the locksmith, and ... I'm a locksmith"

 I get a kick out of how Dreben disarms the ventriloquist in the 
 episode in which he also appears as a nightclub singer.."Lookout!"
 he yells as the ventriloquist/dummy look the other way and Dreben
 slugs the dummy :-)




 Jim

    
    I always liked the opening narration:
    
    "Police Squad.  In Color."
    

    how bout "Starring Rex Harrison as Abraham Lincoln"....
    
    Steve
    

    Saw 33 1/3 over the weekend, and thought it was hilarious.  My favorite
    scenes were Frank shopping in the grocery store, and the '70's disco
    flashback.
    
    Lorna
    

	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad

	The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear

	The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Any ideas for a good title for the 4th Naked Gun Movie?

Chris

    
    	I saw Naked Gun 33 1/2 over vacation since it was the only thing
    	playing at the theatre. I had heard that so many people liked it,
    	even Siskel and Ebert, that I hoped it'd be as fun as a good Police
    	Squad episode. It wasn't. It was terrible, absolutely terrible.
    	Only one or two truly funny moments in the entire film. I laughed
    	once and then had several meek half-chuckles (more of a social
    	auto-reaction than anything else) and the rest was just garbage.

    	I can't believe positive things were said about this movie. It was
    	extremely weak with very little material - I doubt it could be
    	rated funny even if they shortened it to a half-hour TV episode. I
    	would barely call this Naked Gun movie even humorous. I wouldn't
    	bother renting this one at the video store either, even with the
    	fast-forward button. A bad SNL has more attempts at running gags
    	and lines than this movie had, and the few it did try, all died 
    	mid-way. My movie companion felt the same. A waste of two hours.

    	-Erik

Re.17

How about :    Naked Gun Fore "The Retirement Golf Party"

    
    Naked Gun 666: The Mark of the Beast
    
    
    Marilyn

    I liked the Naked Gun 45 one....
    
    
    Naked Gun Fore! : Ball's in your court
    
    Naked Gun 45 : Shoot 'em & Reap
    
    Naked Gun 5 : Revenge of the Guest Stars  (remember they all kept
    						getting killed?)
    
    Naked Gun 666 : Dreven's Revenge
    
    
    Michael

    
    Naked Gun 69! : Back in the Saddle
    
    					JC

    
    Got to see this film, finally. It's good to see a comedy that hasn't
    got weaker as each sequel has gone by (can we say Police Academy? :*).
    
    Another Naked Gun that I will need to watch several times to catch all
    the jokes. One of the more subtle ones is when Jane walks out of the
    bar crying saying that they're playing their song. In the background,
    all you can hear is "98 bottles of beer, 98 bottles of beer..." A lot
    of folk missed that one...
    
    Well worth watching if you enjoy that brains-out slapstick comedy.
    
    And Leslie Nielsen said in an interview in a UK magazine that the
    reason that Police Squad was scrapped after 6 episodes was because
    Americans wanted background laughter to tell them when to laugh. As
    Neilsen puts it, you would have to play the laughter for 30 minutes.
    And what would the laughter be for? The foreground, the background, teh
    dialogue or everything. A great shame that the series wasn't allowed to
    develop...
    
    Graham.

    Another one the crowd at my theater missed:
    
    [semi-spoiler-alert]
    
    Near the beginning of the movie (in the "train station" scene) there are
    several shots of O.J. in the background trying to catch children. 
    He makes a football-style touchdown catch and then proceeds to spike
    the youngster (well, almost).
    
      John
    

    
    The one that nearly the whole crowd didn't get was the awards
    ceremony scene,when he pulled out the envelope and yelled "It's the bomb!"
    and the makers of the box-office flop stood up cheering and congratulating 
    each other.
    
    
    
    Ian

    
    Better than I expected.
    
    Gee, it felt odd watching Simpson, considering what is going on 
    in his life right now. 
    
    But I didn't let it spoil the fun.