Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

"Mostly all new jokes."

1994 1h 23m EN

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★6.5TMDB · 2,639🍅66%Rotten Tomatoes●63Metacritic★6.5IMDB · 127,335

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Synopsis

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Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

“Mostly all new jokes.”

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Cast

Leslie Nielsen
Lt. Frank Drebin
Priscilla Presley
Jane Spencer
George Kennedy
Ed Hocken
O. J. Simpson
Nordberg
Fred Ward
Rocco
Kathleen Freeman
Muriel
Anna Nicole Smith
Tanya
Ellen Greene
Louise

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Peter Segal
Writers: David Zucker, Pat Proft, Robert LoCash
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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83 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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32 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Naked Gun Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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236+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Peter Segal, shot by Robert M. Stevens. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ira Newborn. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor James R. Symons shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Peter Segal directs. Robert M. Stevens behind the camera. Ira Newborn scores. James R. Symons cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

183 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.
332 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "The Naked Gun Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5236+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Peter Segal, shot by Robert M. Stevens. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Ira Newborn. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor James R. Symons shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Mostly all new jokes.".
11IMDB entry: tt0110622 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 13 themes, including "police", "undercover", "parody", "sexual humor".
13Released under 44 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Robert M. Stevens
Original score: Ira Newborn
Editing: James R. Symons
Production design: Lawrence G. Paull
Costume design: Mary E. Vogt
Makeup / hair: Elaina P. Schulman
VFX supervisor: David Kuklish
Runtime: 83 min · 1h 23m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $132,032,598
Return: 440% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes: 66% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 63/100
IMDB rating: 6.5/10 · 127,335 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

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Part of

The Naked Gun Collection

The Naked Gun Collection is a series of hilarious, slapstick comedy films centered around the bumbling police detective, Frank Drebin, played by the iconic Leslie Nielsen. Filled with puns, visual gags, and absurd situations, these films poke fun at the conventions of the crime and detective genre, providing endless laughs and entertainment.

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CinemaSerf2022-09-03
★ 6/10
Given the huge success of the first two, I suppose the trilogy was bound to happen - but by now the joke and the characterisations had really worn very thin indeed. "Drebin" (Leslie Nielsen) is now happily (?) retired and living with his long-suffering wife "Jane" (Priscilla Presley) when he is sought out by his erstwhile colleagues "Ed" (George Kennedy) and "Nordberg" (OJ Simpson) to help out on their most dangerous case yet. Nope, the Queen is not making another state visit - it's "Rocco" (Fred Ward) and it looks like he wants to save Chris Rock any future embarrassment by blowing up the Oscars ceremony. What now ensues is a by now routine sequence of frying pan to fire scenarios, straight out of a Laurel & Hardy film. Sadly, that humour is all a bit passé now and though an appearance by Anna Nicole Smith must have given every budding actress from Tallahassee to Timbuktu a sense of hope that if she can make it, they can - the rest of it falls pretty flat! It is well enough made, the quips are quickly delivered and some of them still raise the odd smile. In the main, though, it is 80 minutes that almost looks like out-takes from the first two films with a thinly constructed plot by way of a template to hold it all together. It is watchable, but just not a patch on the earlier iterations.
Filipe Manuel Neto2023-12-22
★ 3/10
A fitting end to one of the great comedy trilogies of the 90s. This is the third and final film in the “Naked Gun” trilogy. Throughout the film, one can smell farewell and conclusion, and it is undeniable that, among them, this is the weakest and least interesting. Even so, the film does what it needs to do to please its audience, who already know perfectly well what they are going to see and have a certain level of expectations. Although his style of humor may displease many people, we cannot deny that the three films were a notable success in the 80s and 90s, and that they had a major impact on Leslie Nielsen's filmography. In fact, the strength of Nielsen's work and charisma is what makes the film work. Without him, or with another actor, nothing would make sense and the final product would have no value. Even so, we must also highlight the work developed by O. J. Simpson, Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy, actors who put a lot of effort into their respective roles and found, in this film, time and material to match their talent. In fact, compared to its predecessors – and in these cases comparisons are inevitable – I thought this film gave more space to the secondary actors and gained additional quality as a result. It's not worth talking too much about the technical aspects, as this is a comical film that invests little in them and puts all its chips on humor and the main actor's performance. Even so, we can say that the film manages to maintain the quality that the trilogy has accustomed the public to. The script continues to be a problem, however, and is seen only as a vehicle for successive comic sequences and slapstick humor routines.
r96sk2024-06-10
★ 7/10
<em>'Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult'</em> is the weakest of the trilogy, though fair amusement is still produced. Leslie Nielsen is so good in the lead role that I don't think it's really possible for these films to drag, at least alongside the decent gags and short run time. Admittedly this third entry does meander a tad, though my interest in events never waned into negative territory. The ending is the strongest part, that facepalm scene (which I knew of before) is gold. Overall, this is a good franchise. I'm quite looking forward to hopefully checking out Liam Neeson in the 2025 remake, as long as the writing is suitable I think he can absolutely make it work.