Is the new NAKED GUN funny?
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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It's been a while since Mark and Jack had a fight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. Thanks to downloading this Kermode on film podcast. And if you're watching on YouTube, welcome to the visual version. Cheers, Jack. I'm here with Jack Howard. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello, we are at the, we're upstairs in the sun. The sun in London's busy West End, just on Drury Lane. Yep. And we are here to discuss the very important subject of the new naked gun. |
| 0:21.9 | The reboot, the sequel, whatever you want to call it. Whatever you want to call it, |
| 0:26.3 | just don't call it funny. Well, that's what we're here to discuss, Mark. Is it funny? |
| 0:30.5 | No. Now we're going to cut and these glasses are going to get, my glass in particular is going to |
| 0:34.4 | get a lot fuller. Welcome to the world of polite disagreement. Hello, Jack. |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, I think it's time that we had another fight. We haven't had a fight for a while. |
| 0:43.7 | Okay, I don't know whether it's a fight, but I think it is a disagreement. So, it goes like this. |
| 0:48.7 | So firstly, as I always start with these, I am 63 now, right? I'm 33. Yeah, so you are, you know, |
| 0:55.1 | literally half my age. And I remember seeing the original Naked Gun, the film, Naked Gun, |
| 1:02.8 | when it first came out in the cinemas. I hadn't at that point seen the TV series from |
| 1:06.6 | which it was a spinoff. I saw that later on. And I loved the Naked Gun movies. I thought that |
| 1:11.7 | Leslie Nielsen was hilariously funny. I loved Priscilla Presley having this whole other career. |
| 1:17.5 | I thought the films were great. And then they were rebooted just recently with Liam Neeson |
| 1:22.5 | standing in the, you know, stepping into the Frank Drebin role. And I went into the Naked Gun reboot thinking, you know, I don't know, maybe this would be |
| 1:33.2 | okay because Liam Neeson has done comedy, did that company sketch with, with Jervais and |
| 1:37.3 | that's right. |
| 1:38.4 | And I just thought the whole thing was a complete waste of space. Now, I know that you thought very |
| 1:49.3 | differently and I would begin by saying that I think the difference between you and me is that I |
| 1:54.5 | saw the original naked gun when it came out and maybe that has clouded my view. Tell me what you |
| 1:59.1 | like about the new, |
| 2:04.8 | rebooted Liam Neeson starring naked gun. Well, |
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