The Naked Gunis easily one of the funniest movies of 2025 so far. The film serves as a legacy sequel to the previous threeNaked Gunmovies, whichstarred Leslie Nielsenas Police Squad detective Frank Drebin. In the new movie, Liam Neeson plays Frank Drebin Jr., who investigates a tech billionaire with an evil plan to create a new world order.
Joining Neeson in the comedy movie is Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, and Kevin Durand. Additionally, there are several hilariouscameos inThe Naked Gunthat add a fun surprise factor to the movie. All of these factors have ensured that the legacy sequel is incredibly entertaining, and has led to a slew of positive reviews.
Without a doubt, the newNaked Gunmovie lives up to the originals. Thankfully, the Neeson-led film is easily able to mimic the slapstick comedy that the original movies perfected, and definitely deserves to be celebrated. Therefore,here are the ten funniest moments inThe Naked Gun.
10Frank Dresses As A Little Girl To Stop A Bank Robbery
Don’t Mess With Frank Drebin
The opening sequence ofThe Naked Gunhad the tough job of immediately getting audiences onboard with the reboot. During a bank robbery scene that seems plucked right out ofThe Dark Knight,Neeson’s Frank Drebin Jr. hilariously disguises himself as a little girl. After taking off his mask, Frank wreaks havoc on the criminals.
During the fight scene,Frank takes out practically all the bank robbers in truly hysterical fashion. He rips guns in half, bites them out of the criminal’s hands, and treats bodies like bowling balls. Additionally, Frank uses a (clearly fake) body as a shield and, in classicNaked Gunfashion, even plays a hand-clapping game with one of the robbers.
Overall, this was a hilarious sequence and was the perfect way to introduce a brand-new Police Squad detective.This scene proves why criminals should fear Frank Drebinand immediately establishes the over-the-top tone of the comedy film.
9Frank Accidently Causes A Prison Break
Frank’s Electric Car Causes A Lot Of Problems
With a runtime of only 1 hour and 25 minutes,The Naked Gunquickly introduces Frank to the primary antagonist, tech billionaire Richard Cane (Huston). After their first meeting,Cane gifts an electric car to the Police Squad. Upon arriving at work the next day, Frank is shown how to use the vehicle.
Sitting in the driver’s seat of the electric car, Frank starts opening and closing the doors, which constantly hit Hauser’s Ed Hocken Jr. However, this scene doesn’t end there. In fact, Frank causes even more problems whenhe commands the car, which is still connected to the charger, to drive forward.
As the car drives forward, several chargers are pulled out of the ground, andthe wall of the Police Squad building shatters, letting countless prisoners out. As the prisoners escape into the streets, all Frank can do is look around and comment on how dangerous Los Angeles has gotten, hilariously showing just how oblivious he can be at times.
8Frank’s Body Cam Footage Of Him Rushing To The Bathroom
Frank Needs To Stop Eating Chili Dogs
Even though Frank Drebin is usually very confident, one scene inThe Naked Gunshows him at his lowest point. After arresting one of the bank robbers,the Police Squad team needs to review Frank’s body cam footage. As they watch the footage in the interrogation room, we see Frank eating a chili dog that won’t sit well in his stomach.
Not long after this, Frank needs to rush to the bathroom. He lets a man holding a gun go without even questioning him to make his way to a restaurant bathroom. To skip the line, he shoots his gun at the ceiling.Countless people from the Police Squad team watch on in disbelief as Frank cowers into the cornerof the interrogation room.
Clearly, Drebin doesn’t have a good diet, but it’s both shocking and incredibly funny whenhe admits that that was his fifth chili dog of the day. Seeing the panic on Frank’s face in the footage and his embarrassment in the interrogation room is absolutely hilarious, making for one of the most memorable scenes inThe Naked Gun.
7Frank’s Electric Car Veering Onto The Sidewalk
Even LA’s Best Detective Needs To Sleep Sometimes
In the originalNaked Gunmovies, it was always a running gag that Frank Sr. was a terrible driver. He’d constantly drive right into things and seemingly not even notice, and the new movie proves that the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Very early on,Frank Jr. drives right through a police barricade.
However, after Frank receives his own electric car from Richard Cane, he doesn’t need to worry about driving at all anymore. At one point in the movie,Frank is fast asleep at the wheel as the car drives through downtown Los Angeles. During this scene, a notification asks Frank to take control of the wheel, but he obviously doesn’t hear this.
Because of this,the electric car veers onto the sidewalk, causing tons of people to jump out of the wayin panic. When Frank finally does wake up, all he does is once again comment on how bad the city has gotten as he watches the surrounding chaos. This is a hilarious scene, and a fun nod to the opening credits of the originalNaked Gunfilms.
6Frank & Beth Being Watched Through The Window
Frank & Beth Need Some Privacy
About halfway through the movie, Richard Cane sends his most trusted henchman, Durand’s Sig Gustafson, to spy on Frank.Sig sets up on a high-rise across from Frank’s apartment and uses binoculars to watch himas he and Anderson’s Beth get to know each other better.
However,when Frank closes the blinds, Sig needs to switch to thermal vision binocularsso that he can still see what’s going on in the apartment. Even though Frank and Beth are simply preparing to cook dinner and are spending a wholesome time together, it doesn’t look that way to Sig.
To him, it appears that they are engaging in some heinous sexual activities. From Sig’s perspective, things get even worse when Frank’s dog comes into the kitchen. During this scene,it’s so funny to see the utter disgust on Sig’s faceas he imagines what is happening in Frank’s apartment.
5Frank & Beth Bring A Snowman To Life
This Is The Naked Gun’s Most Bizarre Scene
Even though watching them was likely scarring for Sig, Frank and Beth’s first night together make them both realize that they love each other. After the hilarious apartment scene,Frank and Beth take a trip to a winter cottage. Clearly, they aren’t in a major rush to catch Cane, a villain who wants to cause destruction all over the world.
While at this cottage,Frank and Beth surprisingly conjure a spell that brings a snowman to life. During this montage, their romantic getaway suddenly has a third being involved. At first, Frank and Beth both embrace the snowman’s company. Shockingly, the snowman even joins in while they get intimate with each other.
However, it quickly becomes clear that Frank and Beth would rather just focus on each other. The snowman doesn’t take this well, and decides to murder them both.The snowman chases them through the house and almost shoots Frank, but Beth slices its head off with a sword. This is easily the most bizarre scene inThe Naked Gun, but it’s so funny how random and nonsensical it is.
4Frank Gets A New Windshield At The Worst Time
Frank’s Electric Car Turns On Him
After returning to Los Angeles following his romantic (and deadly) getaway and refocusing on his investigation of Richard Cane, Frank gets trapped in his electric car. Knowing that Frank could foil his plans,Cane programs his car to drive straight into the ocean.
As Frank’s car speeds towards the ocean, he shoots the windshieldin an attempt to escape. He does manage to remove the windshield, but almost runs over a clown carrying tons of balloons, which fill up the inside of his car. Next, he almost hits a beekeeper, unleashing countless wasps inside the electric car.
Frank needs to escape from the car quickly, but unfortunately,the next obstacle on the road is two men carrying a brand-new windshield. The windshield perfectly falls into place on Frank’s car, trapping him once again. Thankfully, Frank figures out how to stop the car, but watching this whole action-packed and unexpected sequence inThe Naked Gunis deeply amusing.
3The (Fake) Hospital Interrogation Scene
Frank Channels His Inner Ethan Hunt
Just before the climax of the movie, Frank still hasn’t figured out what Cane’s plan really is. Therefore, in a last-ditch effort, he kidnaps Sig.The henchman, after waking up in handcuffs in a hospital bed, is tricked into believing his boss has already been caughtand that Frank stopped him from pulling off his evil plan.
For those who have seenMission: Impossible - Fallout, it was probably easy to predict that the hospital set and Frank’s story in this scene was fake. However, unlike in the acclaimed Tom Cruise film, once the hospital set is torn down, another twist is included.Liza Koshy’s character reveals she’s from Internal Affairsand is about to arrest Frank for wrongfully interrogating a person.
Before she has the chance to do so, Frank asks her if she got the proper permits to build all these sets.In a meta third twist, a hologram perimeter is turned off, revealing union workers who take issue with Koshy’s character. This scene perfectly spoofs a popularMission: Impossiblescene and proves just how clever the newNaked Gunmovie is.
2Frank Flies With An Owl
Frank Drebin Sr. Returns As An Owl
From the very beginning of the movie, it’s clear that Frank wants to live up to the legacy of his father, which is a fun meta commentary on howThe Naked Gunwants to be received just as well as the original films. During a conversation with his father’s picture in the Police Squad building at the beginning of the film, Frank asks his father to send him a sign if he’s on the right path.
During this conversation, he suggests that his dad could show him an owl. Of course,an owl appears during the climax ofThe Naked Gun. As the city of Los Angeles erupts in chaos, Richard Cane drives away on his motorcycle, hoping to make it to his bunker. However, Frank pursues him by holding onto the owl.
While flying with the owl, Frank takes out several of Cane’s men and eventually catches up to him. Since he passed away in 2010, Nielsen would never have been able to appear in the newNaked Gunmovie, butincluding him in the form of an owl perfectly honors his legacy and the original three films.
1Dave Bautista’s Surprise Cameo
Frank Is Friends With The Actor
After Frank catches up with Cane at the end ofThe Naked Gun, they have a fight in front of a fountain in downtown Los Angeles. During this exchange, Cane argues his perspective. However, when the film cuts back to Frank, he’s nowhere to be seen. Instead, Dave Bautista is now arguing with Cane. Turns out,Frank couldn’t wait until after this fight was over to go to the bathroom.
He gave Bautista some lines to recite as he visited a nearby porta-potty. Unfortunately,Bautista messed up a few of these lines, which he feels bad about. This is easily the funniest cameo inThe Naked Gun, and seeing Bautista in the film was great since he is also a hilarious actor. This is definitely one of the funniest moments inThe Naked Gun, and adds a little extra flavor to the movie’s climax.
