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Let's be honest, the words "comedy reboot" are usually a threat, not a promise. In an age where almost every new comedy feels like it was written by a committee or a child, I had little choice but to set the bar low. I went in fully prepared for a cautious, sanitized imitation that would politely nod to the classics while desperately trying not to offend anyone. And my god I was wrong to have even thought this. This new Naked Gun isn't a cautious, deferential homage; it's a loud, obnoxious, and hilarious successor that understood the assignment completely, and deserves the name the Naked Gun. Image by Wikipedia Drebin, Frank Drebin Jr. The elephant in the room was always going to be the casting of Frank Drebin. Trying to imitate Leslie Nielsen would be a fatal mistake, and thankfully, Liam Neeson doesn’t even try. Instead, he brilliantly weaponizes his own established persona. Where Nielsen’s Drebin was a man of unwarranted confidence, Neeson’s is a man of grim, g...