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The Naked Gun 2½:
The Smell of Fear (1991)

Rate: 5
Viewed: 10/14

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10/14: The law of diminishing returns is at work here for The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.

As the jokes decrease in quality, the more of a buffoon Frank Drebin needs to be. There's the noticeable lack of subtlety in comedy that was the hallmark of Police Squad! The filmmakers had two years to work on the sequel, and this was the best they could come up with?

Speaking of the TV show, if you remember Robert Goulet getting the "special guest star treatment," he's one of the fewest to appear in any film of the Naked Gun trilogy.

I like the spoof of the idiot George Bush, Sr., which obviously shows that nobody was a fan of his work. Many jokes fall flat, and when the funny ones come, there are no hard laughs from me. Remember the guy who held hostages at gunpoint inside the police station before Frank opened the door which slammed on him? That's Weird Al Yankovic.

All in all, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear pales in comparison to the original.