What the 2025 The Naked Gun does have, just like its 1988 predecessor, is wall-to-wall jokes. Both films value making you laugh far above plot and a storyline that makes sense. It’s overflowing with visual gags,

Liam Neeson gamely steps into Leslie Nielsen’s big, beautiful clown shoes in this reboot of the blissfully absurd 1988 cop comedy.

I think Leslie Nielsen himself would have had a great time. Liam Neeson has just the chops for the deadpan reinvention of the 1988 comedy “The Naked Gun,” which has remained a favorite of comedy aficionados for decades.