The Naked Gun (2025 film)

Bottoms, Hundreds of Beavers, and Triangle of Sadness represent a strong template of success for modern “zany” comedies, still engaging in rapid-fire jokes that occasionally dip into gross-out humor while maintaining a level of craft that, if begrudgingly, demands respect from its audience. It’s a long way of saying The Naked Gun’s consistent barrage of eye-rolling duds, well below standard when this franchise was fresh, is now embarrassingly behind the times, the feature-length equivalent of a modern Eminem verse with about as many good bits (a monologue about a talking butt, the epilogue, and that’s it). Just an awful film.

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