Well, you know what they always say, all great comedic spoofs must come to an end and really since I continued with the first two Naked Gun films, I figured I must continue on and watch the final installment in the Naked Gun trilogy. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, upon which is most certainly the final insult before the whole world became but hurt. Surprisingly, I actually remember this movie first before the other Naked Gun films and to be truthfully honest all I remember was Ana Nicole Smith and the terrorist attack on the Oscars, moreover the surprising fact is that this movie came out a year into O.J. Simpson's trial but most importantly this movie came out in March and just about eight months The Shawshank Redemption and one inside joke in the movie I wonder did they use while seeing the screening to Shawshank or came up with that on their own.
Police Squad Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is retired and spending time with his new wife, Jane (Priscilla Presley), when he's called back into action by Capt. Ed Hocken (George Kennedy). A terrorist named Rocco (Fred Ward) plans to bomb the Academy Awards Ceremony, so Frank goes undercover Phil Donahue to try and head off disaster. He causes almost as much trouble as he prevents in an Oscar show complete with over-the-top production numbers and numerous celebrity appearances.
The movie itself was the first of the series where David Zucker did not receive directing credit rather received screenplay credit while we have up and coming director Peter Segal who, let’s just say I'm going use this film as his best and only good film he's ever done because when you look at his other works, they obviously did not receive much due than the Final Insult did. I'll even give you some great examples, Tommy Boy which was not as good as I remember, Nutty Professor Two which I don't want to dive deep back into that movie and then we have two of the Adam Sandler movies Anger Management and 50 First Dates in which I have absolutely no interest in wanting to watch those movies ever so, like I said not a whole lot of great work when it comes to Peter Segal. The Final Insult came out a couple months before The Shawshank Redemption came out and I'm somewhat curious in terms of the escape gag because one of the scenes where they first escape they use the same method that Tim Robbins uses in the Shawshank film and having heard that both of these movie came out months between each other of the year 1994 and it struck me as did Peter Segal visit Frank Darabont's set of the Shawshank and used that for the escape gag or he could of used Escape from Alcatraz for the escape gag either way both Final Insult and Redemption have the same type of scene and if you look at each of those films closely you'll catch my meaning. The Naked Gun films combined are without a doubt one of those great breath of fresh air type movies that you can put on and just laugh all the way through, though I'm going to say when you do watch these films yes you most certainly need to watch these films one at a time but most importantly you need to watch these movies only once, more like a once a year type situation so that the jokes can refresh because really if you watch these films a hundred times you'll most certainly get tired of watching these films and no doubt I would most certainly recommend watching these films but deep down you have to watch these movies only once a year or two years tops. Now, all three of these films are on Max so whenever your finding things to watch with your dad I would most certainly recommend streaming the Naked Gun films mainly because you can't make a perfect comedic spoof these days and these films alone along with any Mel Brooks films are like the Godfather of spoof comedies, and don't forget to watch these films only once a year and really just watch these films in the summer time for many reasons they would be more suitable since the big movies come out and Hollywood is only producing crap so, why not just stream these great classic's in the summer time.
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