Now don't get me wrong, I like this movie and I laughed a lot, but when I see a Naked Gun or any Zucker film I don't expect to see a message about saving the environment, I expect to see a silly gag-a-minute film with no message or moral whatsoever instead of a silly gag-a-mintue film with an environmental message.
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If you took a serious message from any "Naked Gun" film or "Police Squad" episode, you need serious help.
shareI didn't care about that. The whole film was funny. I especially liked Drebin's closing speech where he says, "I WANT A WORLD WHERE THE DEMOCRATS WILL PUT SOMEBODY UP THERE WORTH VOTING FOR!!!!!!" and everybody is cheering and Bush applauds, then catches himself.
shareSo saving the environment is a bad thing now?
"That was a courtesy flush. I'm not actually done yet"
I think what really hurts is that this sort of WAS funny back in the day. Now that the chickens have come home to roost, not so funny any more.
"I think what really hurts is that this sort of WAS funny back in the day. Now that the chickens have come home to roost, not so funny any more. "
I agree.
"Well, well, well- looks like the cows have come home to roost...."
shareYou mean now that we've proven the environmental movement is a complete fraud? Now that we know "global warming" and other hysteria are nothing but paranoid fantasies cooked up by the socialist intelligentsia to try and scare people into voting for the communist agenda and against their own personal economic interests?
"Pretentious" is a three-syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.
lol what? You're living in complete fantasy. Care to provide a source to where climate change was "proven" to be untrue? Right-wing conspiracy sites don't count. 98% of scientists around the globe are in agreement that it is happening. Just because you can't understand the science does not make it untrue.
shareNobody denies ‘climate change’, the climate always changes, whether humans exist or not, hence the numerous ice ages etc. What is a total hoax is the current climate change agenda where the solutions always conveniently resemble a Communist’s wish list.
The doom-mongering predictions always fail, so much so that Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is now an unintentional comedy classic.
As for this film, yeah there seems to be a climate agenda but in the early 90’s it was less obnoxious, and the film has plenty of jokes that undercut it, like Frank boasting about having ‘100,000 acres of Brazilian rainforest slashed and burned so we could build our dream house’ 🤣
It's not that heavyhanded a joke. The acronyms accorded the groups were hilarious. That has nothing to do with saving the environment. It's called "humor". If Drebin and company were about the environment, 30 minutes would have been devoted to the waste caused by the bomb explosion.
shareI don't think there was any real message per se, although if people did take a 'pro-environment'/'anti-energy-waste' one from this film surely that's a very good thing. But the environment was, at the time, a faddish issue and thus ripe to form a basis for the film's humour (thankfully, these days people are a bit more committed to the issue of global warming and realise that it's a pressing issue that need to be addressed NOW and now simply as a passing fashion).
Funnily enough, for all the criticisms aimed at the film's so-called liberal slant, David Zucker of ZAZ fame, later went on to make the very right-wing 'An American Carol' one of the most notoriously political 'comedies' of modern cinema. Also, the 'Hot Shots' films, which was made by Jim Abrahams, are clearly very patriotic, pro-Iraq War films on balance.
David Zucker's Wikipedia said he spoke out for things like solar power and electric cars before this movie came out. This movie doesn't hardly make fun of the environmentalist agenda at all. It completely makes these environmental causes the "straight men" and all the jokes are on the other side of the issue.
share...I don't expect to see a message about saving the environment...Was that the same message that put every one to sleep at the Press Club Dinner? I think you may have taken it too seriously. share