Review of The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) by Vincent Canby for The New York Times — 25 Nov 2005
The enthusiastic Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams style of movie parody is too rarely seen to prompt much head-shaking about gags that don't work. The entire film is justified by those gags that do succeed, beginning with a pre-credit sequence that is possibly one of the most blithely hilarious six or seven minutes of film stock ever exposed to light.
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This review of The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) was written by Vincent Canby and published by The New York Times on 25 Nov 2005.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear has generally received positive reviews.
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