For this year’s top twenty list from Exclaim!, I was invited to write up a blurb for one of my personal favourites: The Naked Gun.
Given that the sensibilities of The Naked Gun — namely, be as silly as possible and do anything for the laugh — seem like a product of a bygone era, it’s perhaps an unlikely franchise for a legacy sequel. But it turns out that some styles of comedy are timeless. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson are both at their very best, deadpanning ridiculous lines from a script that is all at once smart, clever, unsubtle, juvenile and the first spoof comedy to recapture the spirit of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker in at least 30 years.
Here is the link to the full list of twenty great films: https://exclaim.ca/film/article/exclaim-s-20-best-films-of-2025