Comedy sequels are a tricky business. ( Airplane II, anyone?) The audience expects the same laughs and gags featured in the original, but the next installment usually doesn’t land, and you’re better ...

The Naked Gun, no longer relying on a stone-faced character actor going goofy, benefits from Liam Neeson: a star with a ...

One of the things Schaffer loves about the first “Naked Gun” is how, despite the silliness, it is largely a straightforward ...

In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, “The Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen were wildly popular and the height of ...

Nielsen, a ‘50s leading man reborn in ‘80s slapstick, once said he had been cast against type all his career until “Police ...

Akiva Schaffer’s The Naked Gun is a silly and entertaining comedy, but ultimately falls short of the original’s perfection ...

The team behind the failed 1982 television series “Police Squad” had high hopes for delivering years of satire to Americans ...

Happy Gilmore 2' and 'The Naked Gun' gleefully celebrate stupidity on film. But they aren't the best ever made. These are the ...

The Naked Gun brings back the spoof comedy genre, kicking off the start of a revival that includes other hilarious spoof ...

David Zucker, who directed the original 1988 Naked Gun movie, has what you could call complicated feelings about the ...

Original Naked Gun director explains why he won’t see new movie, and also why he refused an executive producer credit.