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The Naked Gun – Akiva Schaffer (2025)

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I actually planned on watching something else, but it became the latest revamp of the “Naked Gun” films. I actually saw the first three fairly recently. Then I heard that there would be a new version. Coincidence? I was curious whether they would still be funny. There are jokes that still work, but it is not like I fall off the couch laughing.

The same I can say about this 2025 version. The creators added typical “Naked Gun” jokes, old and new, which sometimes work, sometimes less so.

Liam Neeson is fairly funny as Frank Drebin jr. His ‘Bond girl’ is none less than Pamela Anderson.

You get the usual clumsy Drebin and bad jokes. Apparently Schaffer also wanted to include jokes of earlier films that are now somewhat questionable, but I like the no-compromise attitude.

Anyway, amusing, a few good jokes, overall not hilarious.

Old Guy – Simon West (2024)

Quite like Pierce Brosnan in “Fast Charlie“, a very amusing Christoph Waltz gets to play an over aged contract killer who wants to show that he still has it.

Danny Dolinsky (Waltz) works for “London”, some crime syndicate, to do the dirty work. He is forced to train a young and upcoming prodigy, which of course means replacement. After a few mistakes, Dolinsky steals the show.

A fairly amusing action comedy.

Lucky Logan – Steven Soderbergh (2017)

Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is in need of money and comes up with a plan to rob the local race track. He consults his brother (an amusing Adam Driver) and recruits Joe Bang (an even more amusing Daniel Graig) to pull off their elaborate plan.

The plan is to use the mine where Jimmy used to work to access the safe of the race track. Together with a few extras, the three set out to complete this massive heist.

The film has a bit of a Red Neck Wester Virginia humour with funny dialogues. The robery is planned and executed with a few problems. Too bad that all the way at the end Soderbergh felt the need to explain why things were even more complex as it already seemed.

Tank Girl – Rachel Talalay (1995)

It took some effort/patience to see this oldie, but now it is just a Prime Video included film.

“Tank Girl” is much more a comic book film than what for a time I had expected Marvel movies to look like. It had got a lot of comic book interludes. Very amusing.

In a Mad Max type dystopian future Tank Girl sets out to take revenge on a company who wants to control the water supply. Overly confident and utterly crazy, Tank Girl gets captured, but fights her way to the top of the company to get her revenge.

Pineapple Express – David Gordon Green (2008)

This movie came up when I was looking for highest rated action comedies. 6.9 On IMDb.com, that is not that high, right?

“Pineapple Express” is a bit of a drug-infused film in which user Dale witnesses a murder and he runs back to his dealer Saul in panic. The two flee, but are of course followed by the bad guys who easily know who to chase because of a the stump of a joint.

The film is a bit of a screwball bromance with some mildly funny scenes and a few amusing dialogues. Somewhat amusing.

Honeymoon in Vegas – Andrew Bergman (1992)

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We were in a holiday home with a stack of old, German DVDs and picked out “Honeymoon in Vegas”. An amusing comedy with Nicholas Cage and a pretty Sarah Jessica Parker.

Cage plays Jack who is haunted by the advice of his mother never to get married. While living a boring life, he meets the girl of his dreams who -of course- has one big wish.

In the end, the two decide to get married in Vegas, where Sarah (Parker) is spotted by the top criminal Tommy who elaborately arranges to steal Sarah from Jack leading to all kinds of weird situations.

Knight and Day – James Mangold (2010)

Apparently for a long time I made an effort to avoid popular Hollywood productions so much that I sometimes run into titles that I am wholly unfamiliar with. So here we have a Mangold with Tom Cruise Cameron Diaz.

Cruise plays Roy Miller whom his employer, the CIA, sees as a rogue agent that needs to be apprehended. Of course Miller is an uncatchable supersoldier. During his operation he runs into car mechanic June Havens (Diaz) and the two are forced to stay together.

Cruise is actually pretty funny and pokerface hitman and Diaz basically only has to look pretty. The result is a highly amusing action film. The story is a bit… well… though.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – Guy Ritchie (2024)

Can it be done? Making a comedy about World War II? Based on the diaries of Winston Churchill even? Well yes, Ritchie pulled it off.

Germany is rapidly conquering Europe and they control both the land and the sea. Their submarines are a manace to allied forces who have no answer to the U-boots. Then a daring plan develops.

The Germans appear to transport almost of their supplies with one ship and an elaborate plan involving ‘difficult people’ is forged to sink that very ship in its African port, in order to take out the U-boots for a considerable time.

With amusing dialogues, a lot of fighting and shooting, a story that appears have been true, we get a peak into the development of the James Bond stories (!). Indeed, a WWII story can be told with humour!

Get Shorty – Barry Sonnenfeld (1995)

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A year after “Pulp Fiction”, John Travolta is again a hip criminal. He is a fast talking gun for hire who lets himself being hired by his victims. In that chain he meets film producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman).

An amusing chain of events, funny dialogues, weird situations. “Get Shorty” is perhaps not the classic that “Pulp Fiction” became, but it is an amusing crime comedy.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die – El Arbi & Fallah (2024)

Only picked because I felt like watching an action comedy. I do not think I even saw the previous “Bad Boys” (1995, 2003, 2020) films.

Smith and Lawrence make an amusing couple, a bit screwball hero cops. After an amusing opening scene, a fairly weak story unfolds in which the Bad Boys’ deceased boss is accused of working with the enemy. Mike and Marcus set out to prove everybody wrong.

So your usual car chases, action scenes, shootouts, evil bad guys, drama and of course witty dialogues. The results is a somewhat amusing film.