The Naked Gun is American parody comedy gold, forged by David Zucker. The king of meta-humor, capable of bending jokes to the point of complete absurdity, but by some miracle making them work without misfires. There is no choice but to laugh while your brain cells are being shot off. Before working with Zucker, Leslie Nielsen was known as a serious dramatic actor, but after the release of Airplane! in 1980, his career took a sharp turn in a comedy direction. The actor’s role contrasted so well with the new image that any jokes flying out of Leslie’s mouth landed with a burst of homeric laughter. 
Like Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson is experiencing a renaissance: having agreed to a role in the reboot of “The Naked Gun,” he literally decided to laugh at his own role as an all-powerful fighter against evil. But even in the role of Frank Dreben’s son, he doesn’t go beyond the character – as if he was copied and pasted from “Taken.” Funny underpants, biting off pistols - Neeson does all this with the same stone face. The script may change, but Liam remains Neeson. But Pamela Anderson understood the task. Her Beth (aka Miss Cherry Roosevelt the Spaghetti-Eating Fat Jerk) is more than just a Bond girl parody. She makes fun of the very sexualization of the “hero’s secondary girlfriends” and pulls all the focus onto herself. Without Pamela, the movie would have turned out to be insipid - her comedic talent was enough for the two of them (one can only hope that Pam doesn’t have a back pain after she carried the entire film on herself). 
The 2020s have been sorely lacking in Zuckerian simple humor—few can suck all the intelligence out of a script and make a story truly funny. Except maybe Akiva Shaffer, who worked with the stars of SNL and released the film “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.” His working methods are quite similar to Zucker’s, but having taken on a reboot of a beloved American classic, he barely dared to introduce anything new. Making a modern movie using old patterns is like making a pie from childhood according to your grandmother’s recipe: the ingredients seem to be the same, but the taste is not like in childhood.
Operating in safe territory, Schaffer still managed to make a fairly funny movie, albeit with a slight hint of disappointment due to a lack of originality. He added a pinch of social commentary by turning the villain into an allusion to Elon Musk (the electric-car tech mogul with dreams of world domination), but that’s where the novelty seems to have ended. Basically, naked or clothed, the gun fires and hits the target. You can nitpick as much as you want, worry about Liam Neeson’s stony face and lack of originality, but it’s still very difficult to resist bursting out laughing after a machine-gun burst of the most ridiculous jokes you last heard in the 90s. Voke-control humor also passes, although many punches dangerously teeter on the edge of what is permitted.
“The Naked Gun” is an ideal movie for viewers, which fits into a running time of up to 90 minutes, entertains, lifts the spirits, and sows hope for a sequel. For the sake of such fun, you can sacrifice a couple of brain cells.