Like the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie made for a VCR Saturday night. They supply the jokes; you bring the microwave popcorn and modest expectations.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
6 May 2014
fresh:
The Naked Gun is hugely funny, but it`s also liberating-precisely because it centers its aim on that cold, closed system and blows it apart. The straight lines are shattered; the empty spaces in the images are packed full until they burst.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2014
rotten:
The two Zuckers and Abrahams have, surprisingly, forgotten a principle of parody that they taught everyone else. Namely, that the jokes have to fit, and that they have to refer to the target -- in this instance police movies.
– Desmond Ryan,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
6 May 2014
fresh:
In the years since he first played Drebin, Nielsen has deepened the role, made it more subtle, more universal, more paramount.
– Michael Wilmington,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2014
fresh:
It gave me about 10 big laughs and 20 small laughs and as many smiles. That`s value for time and money spent.