I don't get a good vibe off this one. I like the premise enough and mocking the flagrant stupidity of leftists is rich ground. I watch this and the presence of Bill O'Reilly and Trace Adkins - are you kidding me? I can only hope the image of Adkins on stage is only a brief, VERY BRIEF, moment in the film and they don't have the poor judgment to force that horrible music on the audience. If done right, this simply shows the leftist's arguments against America for what they are - childish hysterics from a bunch of spoiled malconents. If done wrong, this will be a series of propped up gags that are just as blunt as the leftist arguments they're attempting to mock. It sure seems like its the latter of the two.

The Naked Gun series worked (at least the first two films) because they had firm and traditional story strucutures and the jokes were laced into the story afterward. Frank Drebin's quest to find the men who shot Nordberg was actually a good piece of structure. This outing looks more like the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer school of comedy (Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Scary Movie, etc.) where humor is replaced by disposiable gags. No strucuture and not funny.






Screenwriter: David Zucker (Top Secret!), Lewis Friedkin (BASEketball) and Myrna Sokoloff
Director: David Zucker (Ruthless People)
Actors: Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammar (Swing Vote), Jon Voight (National Treasure), Robert Davi (The Hot Chick), Trace Adkins, James Woods (Be Cool), Dennis Hopper (Swing Vote), Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear) and Kevin Sorbo (Meet the Spartans)

Labels: Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammar, politics, Zucker Brothers