Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)

4/10

Starring          

Leslie Nielsen

 

Directed by Peter Segal

 

Now for this movie, the best part is the Academy Awards parody. I really liked it so much, but that was it for me. This movie relied heavily on Nielsen's comedic style and dialogue to carry the movie, which he did his best and as expected his acting was A-class, but his work to me was not enough to save this movie. Acting from everyone else was ok, except Presley’s performance, it was even worse here than the previous two. I never thought that would be possible.

My main issue here is the plot and the middle part of the movie. I could not get why it dragged so long, and it was filled with so much parody of other movies and silly things that just made for a boring sit while I waited for the movie to end, but once more the ending part I really liked, i.e. the Academy Awards parody.

I saw all these movies back in the 90s, so I cannot recall much of anything about their plots, but now rewatching them one after the other, the plot in this movie is so bad, it made the plot in the first movie look solid.

Here in this movie, Frank (Nielsen) has decided to retire from the Police Squad, but retirement is not working out well for him because he misses the job.

Months into his retirement he is visited by Ed Hocken and Nordberg, who ask for his help with an investigation into a famous bomber called Rocco Dillon. Rocco is currently incarcerated, so Frank has to go undercover to meet Rocco's girlfriend, Tanya Peters, to see if he can get some information from her. This undercover work led to him having scars, which Jane (now his wife) finds and starts to accuse him of returning to the Police Squad. Frank lies and swears he is having an affair (yes, I typed this right). But Jane does not believe him and leaves him.

Frank, now alone, decides to continue the investigation into Rocco and goes undercover in the maximum security prison where Rocco is held to see if he can get some more information from him. So now the movie is about Frank working undercover with Rocco to know where he has planted the bomb.

Like I said, the movie felt more like a rehash of many of the gags I have seen Frank do, and the whole plot did not have any twist at all for Frank. In the first movie he did not trust Jane, thinking she was working with the bad guy and in the second one, there was a duplicate Dr. Meinheimer, but here, the plot is simple and easy and just did not hit the mark for me.

Well, if you want to see all the Naked Gun movies before the new one by Liam Neeson, go ahead. If you want to see good parody movies, just watch the first two.