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The New Naked Gun Trailer Is Full of Man’s Laughter (or Is It Manslaughter?)
The Liam Neeson–starring reboot might just be worthy of its predecessors.
The film series, starring Leslie Nielsen as Detective Frank Drebin, was spun off from Police Squad!, a one-season sitcom full of absurd jokes and goofy gags. Like all once-valuable, semi-nostalgic intellectual property, The Naked Gun felt rife for a reboot, and so the Akiva Schaffer–directed sequel starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. will hit theaters on August 1. While sequel, prequel, and reboot fatigue has never been higher, when the teaser aired ahead of a showing of The Phoenician Scheme in New York, people were laughing out loud at the jokes.
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