This one had Samuel L. Jackson in the Murtaugh role played by Danny Glover in the original series and Estevez in the Riggs role played by Mel Gibson, both do a relatively good job in this parody of that famous series. At this point there had been, I believe, three Lethal Weapon movies so there was plenty of things to spoof in this film though they did occasionally go outside that series for jokes most notable being a spoof on "Silence of the Lambs" that was funnier than most of the spoof of that movie "Silence of the Hams". This one follows the basic story of the Lethal weapon series combining and spoofing elements of all three movies at the time and of course having many b-list stars making cameo appearances like the cops from the television series Chips, Whoopie Goldberg and the funniest to me being William Shatner in the villain role. This would be the only film in this particular set of spoofs, but they really covered a lot of the first three movies so they would have been stretching it to make a sequel, that and I a do believe this movie did not do all that well at the box office to warrant a sequel. Still, it was a funny little spoof, not being really special like say Airplane, Top Secret, or Naked Gun as those had stand alone plots, but it managed to amuse like say the Scary movies did.
Review of Loaded Weapon 1
