The first two Naked Gun films provide satire-based humor, combined with "absurd," slap-stick comedy. Despite the characters' overt inadequacies and inflated egos, the audience appreciates their humanity and goodness, which is also respected by the films themselves. Unfortunately, 33 1/3 goes too far in the realm of absurd, to the exclusion of any meaningful satire. The reliance on stale sexual innuendos and silly gags degrades the artistic potential of the project. Frank Drebin- making cookies? A Naked Gun film cannot succeed without Leslie Nielsen's dry, straight-laced, albeit incompetent police persona, as a comic base. Many of the other characters lose depth, as the film depends more on gags than on combined humor of character and situation. I recommend #s 1 & 2, but you should save time and money and avoid this catastrophe.
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