"I'm glad he's not around to see what Police Squad has come to."
The Naked Gun trilogy has long been considered untouchable for remakes/reboots, and 2025's attempt - with Liam Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin Jnr - shows precisely why, as the hapless detective faces the threat of a crazed tech mogul intent on re-setting the entire population to its basic instincts for his own ends, The humour (both visual and verbal) offers more misses than hits, but it does raise a smile when it manages to hit the mark, mostly when it apes the originals or mimics their verbal stylings. Inconsistency is an issue, and the film does perhaps lean into its more serious influences (in terms of music and narrative) rather too heavily. Liam Neeson is certainly no Leslie Nielsen on the comedic front, but Pamela Anderson makes a reasonable attempt at channelling Priscilla Presley. When it works, the film is a fair stab at the property, but the originals are so engrained in pop/movie culture that it makes it hard to accept a new and weaker take, but it may play better to a more unknowing modern-day audience.
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