The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
As E says, this movie makes me laugh in a way that few do. There’s low brow humor and then there’s low brow humor that is incredibly clever, and the Naked Gun (1988) has that in spades. Leslie Nielsen in particular sells this movie for me too, as he’s fits the bill of mid-century detective so perfectly that for him to lampoon it is genius. I’m actually on realizing now writing this review that it was a 6 episode TV show originally, so I’m definitely going to have to check that out. Excited for the new one to out!
-Z
My memory of first watching this was shortly after Z and I got married, and I remember thinking that was the hardest I had ever seen him laugh at a movie. A rewatch 11+ years later still left Zach laughing unbelievably hard (and then somehow falling asleep for the last 20 minutes?). There are SO MANY hilarious bits in this movie - the boat scene with OJ Simpson and the runaway car scene prove to me that “dumb” humor can work very very well when in the right hands. A classic!
-E
