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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985, Jerry Paris)
Julie Brown shows up at the end of Police Academy 2, which doesn’t make much sense since her character is only in one other scene and she doesn’t have a single line. I was left wondering if she didn’t...
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991, David Zucker)
Watching The Naked Gun 2½, its’s almost immediate clear the missing Z-A or is it A-Z (being Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams) are the ones who made the first film funny. They don’t contribute to this...
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988, David Zucker)
Oh, okay… it’s less than ninety minutes. I was wondering why The Naked Gun felt so fast. It’s because it’s short. That observation isn’t a negative one—the film is a constant delight, with Zucker,...
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Police Academy (1984, Hugh Wilson)
I forgot how loose eighties comedies are in terms of filmmaking and narrative. I don’t think Wilson has a single good shot in the film. The best ones are workmanlike at best and the worst… well, he has...
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Real Genius (1985, Martha Coolidge)
It’s hard to know where to start with Real Genius. It runs just over a hundred minutes, but gets so much done in the first forty, then so much different stuff done in the next thirty, the remainder is...
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985, Jerry Paris)
Julie Brown shows up at the end of Police Academy 2, which doesn’t make much sense since her character is only in one other scene and she doesn’t have a single line. I was left wondering if she didn’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991, David Zucker)
Watching The Naked Gun 2½, its’s almost immediate clear the missing Z-A or is it A-Z (being Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams) are the ones who made the first film funny. They don’t contribute to this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988, David Zucker)
Oh, okay… it’s less than ninety minutes. I was wondering why The Naked Gun felt so fast. It’s because it’s short. That observation isn’t a negative one—the film is a constant delight, with Zucker,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Police Academy (1984, Hugh Wilson)
I forgot how loose eighties comedies are in terms of filmmaking and narrative. I don’t think Wilson has a single good shot in the film. The best ones are workmanlike at best and the worst… well, he has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Real Genius (1985, Martha Coolidge)
It’s hard to know where to start with Real Genius. It runs just over a hundred minutes, but gets so much done in the first forty, then so much different stuff done in the next thirty, the remainder is...
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