Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | | Cast : | Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley | | Director : | Peter Segal | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | March 18, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | May 21, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | A Great Comedy to Own. | Content
 | Leslie Neilson is awesomely funny in all his movies. It got me laughing pretty much throughout the film. The humor in it can be abit obscene in some areas, so it's more for a mature audience, most parts are fine for family showing.
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| Rating | | | Date | January 11, 2005 | | Summary | 33 1/3 time's a charm! | Content
| The final entry in the series has big laughs! Great gags!
TEH STORY: Frank Drebin, now retired, is called back to Police Squad to investigate a jailed terrorist plan for escaping and bombing! So Frank poses as a jail mate and goes in the terrorist's cell. What will happen next!?
The whole series is fine. All the movies are equal in humor, and make you want more! Buy it! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 29, 2004 | | Summary | Dreben is back again to save the day.. | Content
| I love the Naked Gun series. All 3 movies have a certain charm and wit to them that just isn't matched in other satire series.
The first Naked Gun movie is probably one of the funniest movies I have ever seen hands down. The second was good but for some reason it just never seemed to come into its own. This one is a strange movie in that only one of the original writers (David Zucker) did the script while the other two were just producers this time around. It has parts that are better then the second one but other parts that just aren't funny as they want to be. It's a strange movie in that you will find parts that were well done and creative but then you will see things that are just stretching and well to put it plainly, just not funny.
The story continues right where the second left us. Frank Dreben and Jane finaly tie the knot and settle down to become a family. Dreben has to give up his police job as he promised. Of course things aren't as easy as that, the couple seems to be having some marital problems as Jane wants a kid and for some reason Frank just can't make it happen. To make matters worse Ed and Nordburg need Frank to come back for one more mission and when Jane finds out she leaves him. Dreben winds up going into prison undercover to find out the plans of the would be terrorist who wants to target the Oscars with a bomb that will go off once the evelope is opened revealing the best actor.
The opening and ending sequences are the best part of the movie. We have an Untouchables spoof at the start which was quite amusing and in classic Naked Gun humor and we have the whole situation at the Oscars that will remind you a bit of the baseball sequence at the end of the first movie. This alone ranks this better then the second movie but its everything in between that slows the movie down and makes it a little boring at times. Frank in Jail, Jane running away in a Thelma and Louise type spoof, a visit to the sperm hospital.. all fill up the middle and while they have their slight chuckles they are no where near the humor and wit and non stop laughs that we had previously. The second one still seemed to flow correctly within the series, popping out situations and running gags that were constant. This one just seems to be missing that extra umph to put it over the top.
The movie is fun and enjoyable though and a worthy addition to the Naked Gun series. Leslie Nielson still has it and probably always will. He plays his character flawlessly and as you would expect. There are a lot of cameos in this one like Weird Al and Vanna White and Mary Lou to name a few that make for some interseting moments. The rest of the cast from the previous are intact except there is no mayor or commish this time to call the shots.
When I first saw the movie in theaters I didn't laugh as much as I should have but after seeing it again on DVD I found myself laughing at things that probably were just over my head when I saw it 10 years ago.
Bottomline, Its not as good as the first and has its moments with being on the same level as 2 1/2 but overall its a great way to end a great series and I do recomend this to everyone, but I would also say buy the other two as well to get the full flavor. This on its own just won't work as well if you have not seen the others to reference to and get the complete picture of how this series works. This definitely could have been better and perhaps if the original 3 writers did it it would have been but its still quite amusing at points and gets a big A for effort. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 29, 2003 | | Summary | SPERMS OF ENDEARMENT | Content
| Originally a half-hour sitcom, POLICE SQUAD was hilarious and formed quite a good basis for the movies that followed. If there's anyone to blame for this not being quite as good as its predecessors, it could be the director Peter Segal. There are so many wonderful gags in this one, but Segal didn't capitalize on the sight gags that go on behind the scenes, except for a hilarious Jurassic park dinosaur behind one of the closed doors at the police station. But Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley are so delightfully hammy and they carry the movie. Fred Ward and Kathleen Freeman are quite good too as the bomber and his ma. This movie has lots and lots of laughs and the climax at the Oscar awards is superb. Watching OJ Simpson isn't as fun as it was before he received his notoriety in his wife's murder. Another extremely good spoof is the opening rip off of THE UNTOUCHABLES. It's great. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 04, 2003 | | Summary | Scraping bottom | Content
| The third film in the Naked Gun series, based on the TV series "Police Squad!," is a near complete wash-out. There is little to distinguish this from the tons of other gag-a-minute spoofs that ape the ZAZ style. In fact, this wasn't even directed by one of the ZAZ guys- Peter Segal directed from a script co-written by David Zucker. Many spoof-comedies simply send-up specific scenes from other movies. How many times has the interrogation scene from "Basic Instinct" been parodied? More than I care to remember. Early ZAZ classics, including the first Naked Gun, managed to avoid that trap by first crafting a structured screenplay before piling on the gags. The third Naked Gun film is very far from the early days of ZAZ, and closely resembles the many uninspired spoofs that have killed the sub-genre. The DVD features a nice group commentary (with lots of welcoming skewering of the film from it's creators). |
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