The Naked Gun
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Our read · The Naked Gun (1988) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of The Naked Gun
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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