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This is a spoof of the Lethal Weapon movies, along with Basic Instinct, Silence Of The Lambs and a few other crime movies. It's pretty tame profanity-wise, but this spoof is no "family fare," that's for sure. It's also pretty darn funny.

There are a lot of verbal and sight gags, cheap shots and sleazy comments, impossible to catch them all in one viewing. That's maybe the only negative: too many sex jokes which is why this is rated PG-13 (and could easily be "R"). Emilo Estavez, Samuel J. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry and William Shatner all show their comedic talents, as does supermodel Kathy Ireland.

All-in-all, a fun 80 minutes, especially when you are familiar with all the movies they are making fun of in this film.

Back in the 80's and 90's spoofs were good. Airplane, the Naked Guns, the various Lampoons were all cool. Now the spoofs are all vulgar and tasteless.

Loaded Weapon 1's primary material is Lethal Weapon. The two stars: Colt (Estevez) and Luger (Jackson) are supposed to be Riggs and Murtaugh. But like most spoofs they interwove other cop classics from the time: Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs.

The jokes are silly, some of them are run ons but that's what you expect. If we could only return to the era of good satires.

Now this is more like it for a NATIONAL LAMPOON film: LOADED WEAPON 1 is a great and affectionate spoof of the movies that takes the LETHAL WEAPON franchise as its main inspiration. It has plenty in common with Leslie Nielsen's NAKED GUN films, with a scattershot approach providing plenty of laughs, a lot of them obvious, a lot of them surreal, many of them relying on cameo appearances for effect.

Emilio Estevez plays a maverick cop, clearly modelled on Mel Gibson's Riggs, while Samuel L. Jackson gives a stand-out performance as a retiring cop modelled on Danny Glover's Murtaugh. They're involved in a storyline involving over-the-top cocaine smugglers Tim Curry and William Shatner, and there are hundreds of gags packed into a slender running time. If you're a fan of HOT SHOTS et al then this is the film for you.

And I'm still getting over those endless cameos. Bruce Willis is the best and most unexpected one, but watch out for the likes of Corey Feldman, Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Sheen, Erik Estrada, Paul Gleason, and many, many others making unexpected and welcome appearances. This is probably the best film for cameos that I can think of.

This isn't Airplane!, The Man With Two Brains, , or any number of classic slapsticks, but it is up there, and it is funny. While it has its slow times, it still manages to make you laugh. Great one liners, and wonderful acting make it a solid and worthy buy. Everytime you watch it, you will find yet another smart-ass, sarcastic reply, an offbeat joke or an obscure parody. Loaded Weapon 1 hits and for 90% of the time doesn't miss. It honestly doesn't get enough credit.

I thought that even though this movie was lame, its lameness is what causes me to laugh. It falls along the lines of the "Naked Gun" series and the "Hot Shots" pair which I am a huge fan of. Although not as good as these (with the exception of Naked Gun 33 and a 1/3), my family enjoys it and I think it is worth watching.

Maybe it was the mood I was in but the most recent time I watched this movie I laughed my sss off.

Yes, it's nominally a spoof of other well-known movies from that era but there are enough solid jokes in here to keep you laughing in the same way that Airplane! And Naked Gun movies just keep firing gags at you. In fact, 28 years after its release I think the ''original" material holds up better than the ''spoof" material. Heck, the writer who came up with that 5-second throwaway gag with Claire The Dog squeezing lighter fluid on the charcoal grill should get lifetime ringside seats to The Westminster Dog Show.

My personal favorite part was when William Shatner - who is basically the godfather of self-satire - pays a visit to underling Dennis Leary's house and murders him for stealing Bill Hicks' act. I mean, the microfilm. As an aside, The Job was Leary at his bitter, funny peak. Rescue Me was a chick show.

Loaded Weapon loses some momentum when Kathy Ireland shows up. But it's still well worth your 90 minutes. It takes more than one viewing to catch all the jokes, and that makes it a lot of fun. I bet there are plenty of people out there who were in high school in 1993 who saw this every weekend at the drive-in that summer.

This movie is one fun & silly spoof of the buddy Cop genre & it really takes the mick out of the "Lethal Weapon" films but all in a silly goofy fun way.

Estevez is perfect here as the rugged & loose cannon type of Cop, mimicking Mel Gibson's "Riggs" from the Lethal weapon movies, & he brings his usual witty charm as Jack Colt (What a Cop name lol) who is partnered up with his slightly older & more grounded partner Wes Luger (Another fun Cop name lol) played by the hilarious & legendary Samuel L Jackson & it's such a great part for Jackson as he's allowed to be silly & play it all straight whilst taking the mick out of Danny Glover's "Murtargh" from the Lethal weapon movies.

Estevez & Jackson really do make a fantasticly funny team, the gags are ridiculous & really silly but it's all supposed to be that way just like the hilarious "Naked Gun" films!!! I've been a huge Estevez fan since i was young & love most of his films especially his 90's output like the absolute Cult Classic urban survival Thriller "Judgment Night" & his dark sci-fi action Thriller "FreeJack" & his hilarious Cop Comedy sequel "Another Stakeout" among others, i consider Estevez as one of my favourite actors of all time & really enjoy watching his films, he doesn't seem to get the recognition he deserves & is only ever mention around the "Brat Pack films" but he's done way better than those early 80's flicks!!! His 1987 Cop Thriller "Stakeout" with Richard Dreyfuss is an excellent 80's film that just never gets mentioned? Also his 1986 stephen king directed sci-fi Horror Thriller "Maximum Overdrive" should be a Cult Classic but never gets mentioned along with "The Breakfast Club" or his Action Western "Young Guns" is pretty much forgotten too!!! Well Estevez is a movie hero to me & his films have had a huge impact on me growing so i feel strongly for liking Estevez & i defend alot of his forgotten gems. Estevez done alot for movies & Cinema back in the 80's & 90's but he never gets mentioned along with all the others stars of his era, but hey Estevez is a proper Movie star from the glory days of both those fantastic iconic era's of the 80's & 90's!!!

Anyway "Loaded Weapon 1" is a funny & feelgood comedy spoof of 80's Cop films & that's all you need to know & it's got lots of hilarious cameos from alot of stars from that era!!! The music is great too & the Action is fun & the comedy ridiculously silly & fun.

"Naked Gun"-style parodies were everywhere in the early 90s, "Loaded Weapon 1" is just one of the many. It's not really the funniest of the batch either, but it does have some trademark moments that define why the whole genre was so popular for a month or so. It's a typical hit-or-miss kind of thing, some stuff makes you laugh and some stuff makes you wonder why you're not going outside. There's really only one element in this movie that's consistently funny and unsurprisingly, that's Samuel L. Jackson. The guy just gives any movie he's in a necessary dosage of class, even if it is a poor man's "Hot Shots!". There are also some fun cameos added, but not a lot is done with them. They just go for the "hey look it's Bruce Willis"-factor, which only works up to a certain level. "Loaded Weapon 1" is a fun 90s spoof (they're all fun), but nothing special.

I'm not a huge fan of slapstick spoofs. I love "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" films, but it's not my favorite genre.

Ironic, then, that I find most spoof movies enjoyable, at the very least, because they're all really, really stupid. There's more quality in "Airplane!" than, say, "Hot Shots!", but both films are enjoyable, because you have to do absolutely no thinking whatsoever. All you have to do is laugh a few times. And with the millions of jokes (okay, hundreds) per film, you're sure to find at least a handful of things worth laughing at.

"National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" is one of my favorite spoof flicks. Why? It's stupid, silly, funny, and one of the most enjoyable films available to see. Yeah, it's stupid, like I already said. But it's loads of fun, too. And I don't care if critics bashed it when it came out -- it's still a very fun movie.

Everything gets lampooned in this: "Lethal Weapon" to "Die Hard" to "Silence of the Lambs" to "CHiPs." And, alongside "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"; "Austin Powers in Goldmember"; and "The Player," it has some of the most cameos/stars to date. Get this: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Curry, Jon Lovitz, William Shatner, Denis Leary, Erik Estrada, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Bill Nunn, Kathy Ireland, Corey Feldman, J.T. Walsh, Paul Gleason, F. Murray Abraham, Bruce Willis, Phil Hartman (R.I.P.), Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Sheen (Emilio's half-brother)...am I missing anyone? Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Joe Pesci would have completed this cast. I wonder if they rejected cameos.

Wes Luger (Jackson) has been assigned a new partner, the loose canon Jack Colt (Estevez), who lost his dog long ago and is now mentally unstable. Luger lost his partner (Goldberg), too, and the effects of the past often catch up with him, so far that he finds it impossible to fire a gun without shaking violently and spastic-like.

General Mortars (Shatner) is planning a devious scheme of running drugs through a Girl Scout cookie-type company, and Colt and Luger try to thwart his plan and save the day before it's too late. Meanwhile, they come to appreciate each other -- while lampooning everything in sight.

The most puzzling thing about "Loaded Weapon 1" is the fact that, if you look at most user comments on the Internet Movie Database, they're all quite positive. It has a low standing at 5.3 stars, yes, but the user reviews for the film are pretty decent. A lot of people found the film "funny for what it is." I do, too.

Spoofing a spoof is kinda pathetic, I'll admit. "Lethal Weapon" always was more tongue-in-cheek comedy than anything else. Even as a hard action film it was always winking at the other films of its genre. "Wayne's World" isn't exactly a drama of epic proportions, either, come to think of it. Even "Basic Instinct" is a hard film to spoof, if you take a moment to reflect -- it's never exactly horribly serious. Just sleazy. (I won't ruin how "Loaded Weapon 1" pokes fun at the famous Sharon Stone interrogation scene.)

Yet, in my honest opinion, "Loaded Weapon 1" does a pretty darn good job of spoofing everything in sight. Estevez is a good Riggs-type who pines for his lost dog (not a wife, mind you, but a dog). Jackson -- who's usually great -- is decent as the Murtaugh-type character, although he is shoved aside by the screenplay to make room for Estevez. (Whose brother was just as good in "Hot Shots!", although I think this is a funnier film.) Lovitz, hair bleached (impersonating Joe Pesci from the "Lethal Weapons"), comes across as an irritant sidekick who appears out of thin air only when the plot needs him -- which I suppose was the point. (Was "Loaded Weapon 1" assuming that Joe Pesci's Leo Getz character was an irritating co-star placed in the film as nothing more than an easy plot device? Probably.)

And in one of the simplest -- but also one of the most effective -- scenes, we get the famous bathroom bomb sequence from "Lethal Weapon 2" told in an entirely fresh perspective. Here's how it goes: The door to Jackson's house is wide open. Estevez walks in and calls him. "I'm up here!" is the response. Estevez walks up the stairs, gets to the bathroom, opens the door, sees Jackson on the toilet and says, "What are you doing?" Safe to say, he's doing exactly what it looks like. His blunt reply is one of the highlights of the film. (Let's face it, that scene from "LW2" was destined to get poked fun at some time or another -- I'm just glad it got spoofed in this.)

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.

I rented this movie, I have know idea why I even considered it. I watched it, and about 15 minutes into it, I felt like I was about ready to die, that's how bad it was. It has a great cast, with many cameos from stars like Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Paul Gleason,Bruce Willis, Charlie Sheen, and the late Phil Hartman. I wouldnt even recommend this movie if you like the actors in it. I'd give it a 0 out of 10.

After watching this movie for an umpteen number of times, the gags have run a bit dry, but I remember first seeing it and I could not stop laughing. The cast is full of grade A celebrities, including Sam Jackson before he really hit big. There are some classic gags. It's all done very low-brow, but in a way that had me rolling with laughter. Go see it! You'll have a great time!

My score: 8 (out of 10)

You can do a movie like this and make it funny. They've proved that time and again with the "Naked Gun" movies.

To say that "Loaded Weapon I" isn't half as funny as the first ten minutes of one of the "Naked Gun" flicks isn't a criticism as much as plot description.

They borrow from every cop movie under the sun ("Lethal Weapon", "Basic Instinct", "Die Hard"), manage to scrounge up a few cute extraneous roles (Shatner's is pretty good but Willis is better still) and there are a few gags that didn't have me looking away with lingering remorse (the guys straining to see up Ireland's dress during the interrogation, paying for a drug buy with a credit card then asking for the carbons, "Bohemian Rhapsody" popping up out of nowhere).

But the whole thing reeks of a last-ditch effort to try and wring the last drop out of a dying franchise (in this case, the "National Lampoon" name). Have you noticed that, other than "Animal House" and the first and third "Vacation" movies, all the rest of their products have been almost criminally unfunny? Unfunny enough to warrant investigation? Unfunny enough that showing them to torture victims would break the pact of the Geneva Convention?

Jackson acts in this one like it's a day off, Estevez tries but just can't make himself into the farceur his brother Charlie is. The rest of them try but cannot rise above a script that sounds like it was written on the back of a cocktail napkin (this was co-written by one of the guys who wrote a "Police Academy" movie - HEL-LOO-OOO!)

If I have just one wish for the new millennium it's that National Lampoon stops pointing guns at the heads of writers who couldn't write movies if their lives depended on it to script any future efforts. Provided, of course, that Lampoon has the nerve to try anymore.

Two stars, for the convenience store shootout at the beginning. THAT was funny. The rest wasn't.

As several others have pointed out - this is not a very good film. However, it's still pretty darn funny. It's a B-version spoof film, but I still laughed more than on average.

When you don't have terribly gifted writers and/or actors you have to rely on throwing in as many jokes as possible in order to try and get more laughs. And a surprising amount of them are actually very funny (albeit extremely silly, and stupid).

Favourite bit: when Estevez and Jackson are driving in their car and suddenly realize they're being followed - by two guys wearing ski masks, sitting in the backseat of the car.

If you know what you're getting yourself into, Loaded Weapon is an underrated little gem. If nothing else, it's fun to see Sam L. Jackson before he became a "serious" actor. [7/10]

I thought that this movie was great, it was no Hot Shots but it was still good, I thought the script was good and granted Emilio Estevez isn't as good as Charlie Sheen but he's good none the less. Tim Curry does seem to carry the movie though "WWWWWilderness girls" William Shatner does have a good part too which boosts the movie quite a bit, Samuel L Jackson in a cop spoof was an unusual concept but it works. Charlie Sheen's cameo was funny although I think he did milk it a bit too much. Finally Whoopi Goldberg has a short part but so memorable throughout the rest of this movie. My advise is go and see this, especially if you loved Hot Shots or the Naked Gun series.

LOADED WEAPON 1 (B-): A parody spoof on the popular Lethal Weapon franchise (and macho action films in general) done in the vein of Naked Gun and Hot Shots! From the opening shootout in a convenience store, the inciting murder, and the initial investigation, you can see there was a lot of energy and creativity behind this spoof. Even the musical score is a hilarious ode to jazzy cop film soundtracks. There's a gag every second (often multiple in the backgrounds of each scene) and many of them are pretty spot on and some are really inspired. In place of Mel Gibson we have Emilio Estevez and in place of Danny Glover we have Samuel L. Jackson. Emilio Estevez may not be Charlie Sheen levels of dry, but he's close enough. His deadpan works great as a comedic stand-in for Mel Gibson's unhinged Lethal Weapon cop. The two set out to investigate the murder of Samuel L. Jackson's old partner (Whoopi Goldberg) and find themselves caught up in busting a drug smuggling ring through a girl scout like corporation. William Shatner gets to ham it up as the film's main villain behind the drug ring and Tim Curry plays his right-hand man. Like all good parodies, this film finely balances telling a coherent and engaging story while still providing consistent comedic set pieces and gas. In the worst parodies the plot is just an afterthought or bare skeleton for a couple of jokes featured in the trailer. Unfortunately, the movie does lose its steam a bit toward the end with sequences still being funny, but lacking the hit rate or density of the first half. This isn't in the Airplane! Tier of classic spoofs, but this is a quality genre entry. If you like parodies, give it a watch.

A very entertaining film with a lot of funny moments and just as many famous cameo appearances. They've done their homework on the Lethal Weapon movies, right down to the Claptonesque music score. This movie is not to be taken seriously. It's just a bit of fun, with some nice ideas and great comic performances all round. A nice touch of light entertainment.

Make no mistake, this is far from even mediocre "National Lampoon" material. I mean the "beaver shot" might be the cream of the crappy jokes. Not funny. Not interesting. Even the numerous cameos are almost all wasted. Samuel L. Jackson in this movie makes "The Man" look like Oscar material. By comparison, "National Lampoon's Vacation" rates a 8.0, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" 7.0, "National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" 6.0., "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" 7.5. In short, "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" rates a 1.0 and is a failed attempt, which lacks interesting plot, interesting characters, and should be avoided unless you can take the punishment of a boring, unfunny, comedy. - MERK

I am glad my fellow reviewers (some of them) also found this movie enjoyable. It was silly at times but never insulting and the large cast helps greatly. Of particular interest is cameos by Erik Estrada, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Bill Nunn. Even Kathy Ireland manages to be funny! Its not the Marx Brothers or "Some Like it Hot", but for what it is, I liked it a lot.

Sergeants Jack Colt (Emilio Estevez) and Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson) team up to investigate a drug ring that's using Wilderness Girls' Cookies as a distribution network.

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 is a 1993 parody film that spoofed the plethora of buddy cop films that came about from the 80s. Initially conceived by Don Holly during his tenure at Walt Disney Pictures, the script was developed by Gene Quintano until Disney opted for another action spoof titled Buddy Cop (that ultimately never got made) putting the film into turnaround where it was quickly picked up by New Line who had acquired the National Lampoon license and intended to make a comedy franchise out of the concept. The film opened at number one at the U. S. box office making $28 million against an $8 million budget and $51 million in total grosses when accounting for international numbers. Despite it's success, critical reception was tepid with many negatively comparing the film to the highpoints of Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker with Hot Shots Part Deux releasing the same year to considerably greater commercial and critical success. Loaded Weapon 1 does score some decent laughs, but it's also often uneven with a lot of floundering gags it refuses to let go and sometimes squandering its supporting cast.

In terms of casting, Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson do a solid job of channeling the archetypes established by the Lethal Weapon series and have decent chemistry with each other. Jackson probably gets a little less freedom to spoof his character with only a few specific moments dedicated to spoofing Roger Murtaugh while Estevez' Colt is given way more time dedicated to his parody than he should especially with a running gag about Claire from his past that starts out amusing only to be brought back multiple times to diminishing returns. The movie goes at a quick clip at only 76 minutes (not including credits) and it never feels like it's lingering on any gag for too long. There's also some amusing appearances by the likes of Tim Curry and Jon Lovitz the latter of whom spoofs the illogical reasons of why Leo Getz stays around past his point. But despite sporting a solid cast the movie does sometimes squander its resources particularly in its inclusion of Dennis Leary who seems like with his manic and intense delivery he'd be perfect for a spoof like this but is killed as soon as he's introduced while William Shatner stays around despite not being all that funny.

Loaded Weapon 1 is the kind of movie that defies a conventional review because it's only concerned with making you laugh without regard to cohesion or narrative. I laughed more than I didn't but not as much as I wanted to. Loaded Weapon 1 has some decent moments but it also pales in comparison to predecessors and contemporaries like Dragnet and the Hot Shots films (which it actually name drops) making Loaded Weapon 1 a movie that's an inoffensive if unmemorable rental.

Having loved the four LETHAL WEAPON movies I knew that there was this spoof, but I avoided it for years because I thought it would have been like SILENCE OF THE HAMS or the various entries in the Bottom 100 such as DISASTER MOVIE, ANGRY GAMES and the like. However, being some sort of masochist, few months ago I finally saw it and I thought that my fears were true, but partially.

Despite the title is LOADED WEAPON 1, this is not only a parody of the LETHAL WEAPON franchise but of many other movies of those years such as BASIC INSTINCT, DIE HARD (with even a cameo from Bruce Willis) and RAMBO 2 - THE REVENGE, so the title is already confusing.

Jack Colt and Wes Luger (Emilio Estevez and Samuel L Jackson) are a white and black policeman that are paired for resolving the case of their old colleague Billy York, and they will find out that there is an incredible conspiracy behind it.

Apart from what I wrote above, the movie hasn't really a plot to be talked about. It's mostly a lightning fast parody of various movies where sometimes the jokes are funny, sometimes they fail. Yet there is a huge difference between this and DISASTER MOVIE: a few of the jokes in this made me chuckle, but it never happened with the other. So, as it doesn't completely stink, I give it a well earned 4 and I can see why it has a respectable score of 6,3.

I've always loved this movie. I actually saw it before I saw the "Lethal Weapon" series (Though I was familiar with them) and loved it even more once I had.

The thing that makes this movie funny, even today, is that even though it has a lot of topical humor from the early 1990s, it's mostly made up of self-sustaining jokes that last. Not everyone is going to know who Leona Helmsley is, but everyone is going to laugh at Tim Curry in a wig.

And then there are the myriad of cameos by stars who know how play it straight but don't necessarily take it too seriously. From the delightful appearance of Samuel L. Jackson as Wes Luger to the walk- through of Emilio Estevez's brother and Cory Feldman it's a non-stop parade of talent that knew what kind of movie they were playing in. (Not to mention it almost brought a tear to my eye to see Phil Hartman doing what he does)

Even if you're not a fan of the "Lethal Weapon" movies you're going to find this movie funny. It fires off about 30 jokes a minute, about 20 you're going to laugh at. If you are a fan of the "Lethal Weapon" you'll probably laugh at about 29.

Watch it with friends, you won't regret it.

Spoof movies have had it rough in the last twenty years. You can probably blame the Scary Movie franchise for a lot of that but they have some residual entertainment value, especially the first and underrated third one and to be perfectly fair and honest the genre had long run its course by the time we narrowly escaped the apocalypse of Y2K only to face a more terrifying foe in Windows ME.

The all-time classics by the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team and some of its cohorts like Pat Proft's Hot Shots movies still hold up magnificently, but by the time Loaded Weapon 1 hit screens in 1993 the ZAZ style spoofs were already in a big slump. Once you reach Silence of the hams and late career Leslie Nielsen (we still miss you though oh magnificent one) you're in the swampiest of swamps and looking at the cover and prestigious national lampoons branding you'd be forgiven for putting Loaded Weapon 1 in the same category and dismissing it altogether. You'd be missing out on some solid fun though.

The main target for this spoof are of course the Lethal Weapon movies, that started off strong only to get increasingly ridiculous. Your surrogate Gibson/Glover team is played by Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson, or as he was known before Pulp Fiction "some guy". The casting is surprisingly strong given the low brow material. There's Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Curry, F. Murray Abraham, William Shatner with a fantastic moustache, countless cameos you wouldn't expect in a movie like this which makes Loaded Weapon stand out amongst its peers. Estevez and Jackson have some good chemistry but it's very apparent Estevez has much better comedic timing. It's really strange looking back now that he was probably better known and regarded than Sam Jackson at the time.

In contrast to the lesser spoofs this one mostly stays on topic working the Lethal Weapon tropes into its jokes and storyline and oddly enough coming off almost restrained compared to many more ludicrous moments in that movie's sequels. There are also nods to Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct that are riding the line and a few timely references that feel obscure now at best, dated at worst. The big problem with this genre of parody is that they steadily ran out of material in the movies they were mocking, thus necessitating the need to adopt an everything but the kitchen sink approach to writing that made the films ultimately less coherent, clever and most importantly funny. Airplane was a parody of 50s and 60s catastrophe movies like the Airport series, Naked Gun was a parody of police procedurals with hints of film noir, they are insane and surreal but they are extremely precise in their writing and their genre tropes. Once you lose that precision your movie starts to fall apart which happens a little with Loaded Weapon as well as the later plague of random nonsense non-sequiturs rears its ugly head a bit too often.

Generally the jokes are a bit low brow, but I can't pretend they didn't make me laugh still. It's definitely a lesser parody movie that doesn't hold up quite as well to repeat viewings as the classics but it's also nowhere near the worst exemplars from the later half of the nineties or god forbid the unholy post-Scary Movie nuclear wasteland of the twin-headed monstrosity Friedberg and Seltzer. An enjoyable romp with an intensely likeable cast and surprisingly solid soundtrack, but you can already see the cracks quite clearly that lead to the death of the spoof movie.

It one of those movies that the try to make you laugh try to make a forced comedy but big fail.