Police Squad!

After the success of Airplane! (1980), Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers were hired to create this spoof of old cop shows like M Squad (1957-1960), where we follow detective…

Airplane: Felled by Fish

Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays. Photo: Paramount "Our survival hinges on one thing – finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner." A…

Scary Movie 4 

Cindy (Anna Faris) moves into a haunted house and familiarizes herself with the neighbor (Craig Bierko)... but then aliens attack Earth. Director David Zucker’s second stab at this franchise mainly…

The Naked Gun: Nursing a Legacy

O.J. Simpson, Leslie Nielsen and George Kennedy. Photo: Paramount It opens with a meeting where the most anti-American leaders of the world have congregated to discuss a major plot to…

Naked Gun 33 ⅓: The Final Insult 

Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), the pride of the LAPD, has retired but is called back into action for an undercover assignment in a prison. This third chapter offers a few…

The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear

Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) stumbles over a conspiracy hatched by powerful representatives of the oil, nuclear and coal industries. This sequel is quite similar to the 1988 original; Priscilla Presley’s…

Scary Movie 3

So, this is when they got rid of the Wayans brothers and hired the people who virtually created this genre, including David Zucker. Primarily, The Ring and Signs are spoofed,…