Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, July 11, 1991, Page 4, Image 4

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ENTERTAINMENT
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Leslie Nielsen returns as LI Frank Drebm, the inept detective in The
Naked Gun 2 12 The Smell of Fear
Jokes fly again in sequel
★ ★ ★
Gun ti 1 2 Showing at area ItxM
t<*c% Ratari PG-13
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Unless a medical
condition prohibits
you from going into
convulsions of
lllUgfltlT. thcMl UHI
should treat yourself
to 77ii’ X.ikitl (,'un II
UH jbe Smell ot
l e.ir Ieslie Nielson is Imi k .is Lt
f-milk Drebtn. Americas favorite
loutish. unflappable flnlfoot 11ns
time, the enemies arv slum oil
magnates lien! on destroying our
nation’s environment
Kohert (ioulet heads this
thugish lot that seeks to under
mine I S environmental poll
i \ h\ having one of its own
men pose as a world-renowned
environmental authority who
will tell the president what de
i isions to make
Aeeording to the ads for the
movie. Ckwlet w as chosen he
aust■ the filmmakers tjoaldii ' at
lord Wayne Newton, lie doe-,n't
make as gi«id a criminal as !<!,. ar
do Montalfmn did in the first Yu
ki'il dun. hut that's nitpii king
since 1 went to tills movie to
laugh and ended up on the floor
Again, Nielsen’s partners are
t leorge Kennedy anci the au i
dent prone ()| Simpson as lie
tective Nordfs-rg 'Itiev provide
some moments, but as in the first
installment, the liest scenes an1
Im’Iwcs h Nielsen and the ageless
Priscilla Presley 'Hus time s|>ort
mg red hair and a chip on her
shoulder carried through from
llic Iasi movie, she is the objix t of
Nielsen s desire ns he tries to win
hni k her alfixtion
The sequel has more of .1 plot
than its predecessor, hut it
doesn’t forget the laughs Fur
from it. this boasts some of the
funniest scenes put to film
sin< e The Nuked Cun From the
Files of I'nlii e Squad
It s impossible to descrilie am,
part of this movie without giving
iiwny Jokes, which no one wants
to do It’s also hard to review this
film since most people alnsidv
know whether they will see this
movie II your tastes lie with
such films as Airjihme, Fop So
1 ret', and the firs! Nakiil Cun
then von will not want to miss
this
Presley proves hersell a good
comedic ,11 tress with a line sense
ol timing and a suitable amount
ol sex ap|Mial and sultriness,
combined with the goo[\ air that
am actor in this film must have
Nielsen Is once again perlisit at
making sillv laces at all the right
times and keeping a stra ght I.
when it’s appropriate \lihi ,gh
he slams! in tile itiiiOs ns a
straight man, a cl viral ter actor
and sometimes a roiuantii lead,
In has pmtt\ much erased tii.it
image as tar as contemporary au
diem es are concerned
It s Inn to go hat k and I. h >k at
Nielsen s older films, w here lie
delivers the same type ol lines
with serious intent that get
laughs as !.l Urchin
Writers David X.ui ki : and l*a!
Proft throw so main jokes at the
audience that many .ire probably
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David Zuc ker
Director says
no to television
By Lucas Gutman
Emerald Contributor
David Zucker, director
of Naked Hun II : The
Small ol Four, his brother
|rrrv and friend Jim Abra
hams started a comedy
troupe in the mid-1970s
call e d T li e Kentucky
Fried Theater Director
J o h n L a nd i s saw t it e
young men and decided
to feature their antics in a
film, The Kentucky Fried
Mm ia.
It was an irreverent
lampoon of television,
coming attractions and
kung-fu movies That
kind of parody continued
in further group efforts hv
the three in such films as
Airplane, lop Sat ret and
77/e Naked Hun From the
l-’lles III I’ulict' Stpilld, the
last of which was based
on a short lived television
series that was a deadpan
and outrageous parody of
crime dramas such as
Dragnet
|i rrv went on to diret t
other features, such as
last summer's box-office
smash ('.host Abrahams
ft as also directed other
films and gone into pro
ducing David Zut ker has
stii( k to his slapstick
roots vs ilh his most recent
I lort. the X.iked (lun
II t he Smell ol Four.
The following are ex
cerpts from a phone inter
view with David Zucker
before the release on X.i
ked Hun II
DDL Do you think I’olii e
Squad would he suer ess
fill on TV now7
David Zucker No. it still
needs a laugh track I'V
humor needs rhythm On
TV it's joke-laugh-joke
laugh In the theater you
have the audience laugh
ing
CJDK Will there fie a third
Xaked Hun movie7
Zucker I don't know It
took so long to do this
one Maybe if we can
come up with a good
idea
ODH Did you always
want to 1m- a filmmaker?
Zut ker No In college 1
did historic al research
and went on archaeologi
cal digs and some other
things that didn't have to
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