6/10
Not as funny this go around, but that doesn't mean the "Smell of Fear" is a stinker.
5 December 2010
I though this "Naked Gun" had its moments, but overall it was not as funny as the first film or even the less popularly received third film. I just think parts of the story were a bit weaker and there were a few to many recycled jokes from the old television show these films came from. However, one constant in this film is Leslie Nielson as Frank Drebin, he steals the show for the most part. In this one, big energy wants to bomb a dude giving a speech on cleaner and efficient fuels. The villain here is played by Robert Gould and he is not as good as Ricardo from the previous film, though I have to say I enjoyed Gould's demise about as much as Ricardo's. O.J. once again gets beat up too and once again that is funny to see. I also enjoyed the bomb sequence at the end which is a parody of the bomb in the James Bond film "Goldfinger", that bomb like this one looks like the most complicated piece of machinery ever made, both though were rather simplistic to deactivate. There is also a good scene where Drebin is trying to cut ropes tied to his wrist and he ends up doing more harm than good which leads to another funny scene involving George Kennedy. So it does have some funny things going on, but a lot of the jokes in this one also kind of falter.
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