

Movies Like The Naked Gun
Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. Following in his father's footsteps, he must solve a murder case to prevent Police Squad from closure.
Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Direct franchise predecessor — Lt. Frank Drebin Sr., same slapstick cop-spoof DNA the 2025 reboot explicitly continues.

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Second entry in the same Police Squad franchise; identical tone, characters, and spoof formula.

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Third franchise installment — completes the original trilogy the 2025 film directly follows.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Same director Akiva Schaffer; absurdist comedy subverting genre conventions with the same irreverent, deadpan energy.

Johnny English Strikes Again
Bumbling-agent spoof sequel with slapstick action comedy; closest tonal and structural match in the pool.

Black Dynamite
Loving genre spoof with intentional absurdist comedy; same commitment to parody craftsmanship as Naked Gun.

Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks spoof masterclass — affectionate genre parody with slapstick that directly influenced Naked Gun's style.

Airplane!
ZAZ spoof that created the template Naked Gun follows — rapid-fire gags, deadpan delivery, absurdist set-pieces.

Not Another Teen Movie
Genre spoof with rapid sight-gag comedy and parody DNA; same audience as Naked Gun fans.

Deadpool
Fourth-wall-breaking action comedy treating genre conventions as punchlines; tonal sibling to Naked Gun.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Meta comedy weaponizing genre awareness; shares satirical, self-aware humor of Police Squad spoofs.

22 Jump Street
Buddy cop comedy sequel satirizing its own sequel status — overlaps with Naked Gun's genre self-awareness.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Slapstick detective comedy with rubber-faced absurdism; shares era and tone with original Naked Gun series.

Repossessed
Stars Leslie Nielsen in spoof mode — same performer, same parody sensibility as the original franchise.

Deadpool 2
Continues meta action-comedy tradition; self-referential humor and genre deconstruction mirror Naked Gun's DNA.

Super Troopers 2
Absurdist cop comedy sequel; bumbling law enforcement played for laughs — same core appeal as Naked Gun.

Duck Soup
Marx Brothers anarchic slapstick — foundational DNA for all government/police parody comedies including Naked Gun.

The Silencers
Tongue-in-cheek spy action comedy that influenced the spoof genre; Matt Helm shares DNA with Frank Drebin.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Contemporary action comedy with buddy-cop energy; shares genre and release era with the 2025 Naked Gun reboot.

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Loud action comedy sequel with over-the-top set-pieces; overlapping audience for irreverent cop/crime comedy.
How Good Is The Naked Gun?
Ratings across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, plus our verdict.
Critics rate this 2.3 points higher than audiences — more appreciated by reviewers than general viewers.
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Frequently asked about The Naked Gun
Common questions people search for, with answers written by us at MoviesPack.
Is the new Naked Gun a remake?
The 2025 film is not a strict remake but a legacy sequel/reboot of the original Naked Gun trilogy. Liam Neeson plays Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen's original character, continuing the Police Squad storyline rather than retelling it.
Who is Frank Drebin Jr. and what is his connection to the original Frank Drebin?
Frank Drebin Jr. is the son of the legendary bumbling detective Frank Drebin Sr., the hero of the original Naked Gun films. He follows in his father's footsteps as a police detective, inheriting both the badge and the same oblivious, accident-prone style of law enforcement. The film uses this generational framing to reintroduce the franchise's signature slapstick premise for a new audience.
What is the central conspiracy Frank is trying to uncover?
Frank is assigned to protect a high-profile celebrity at a major public event, but the case deepens into a broader assassination conspiracy that implicates insiders with real authority. As Frank stumbles through the investigation, he inadvertently exposes the plot precisely because his genuine obliviousness makes him impossible to predict or neutralize like a conventional detective.
Why does Frank's incompetence keep producing successful results?
The film frames Frank's blundering as accidental genius: because he does not follow predictable detective logic, the conspirators cannot anticipate or counter his moves. He collects evidence and witnesses through sheer chaotic circumstance rather than deduction, which repeatedly wrong-foots the villains. The running joke is that his outcomes bear no relationship to the methods he uses to achieve them.
How is the assassination attempt stopped at the climax?
Frank ends up in the middle of the event where the assassination is scheduled to occur and disrupts it through a cascade of accidents rather than any deliberate heroism. The would-be assassin is stopped as collateral damage from Frank's general mayhem, not as the result of a planned takedown. The payoff reinforces the film's central comedic thesis that in Frank's hands, chaos is functionally indistinguishable from competence.
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