The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)

Fresh from saving the Queen from remote-controlled assassins in the 1988 The Naked Gun original, Frank Drebin, the bungling police lieutenant of Police Squad!, returns in this sequel to uncover an energy industry plot to discredit a renewable energy scientist by replacing the scientist with a doppelganger.

★★★☆☆

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1998)

Taking its cues from deadly serious police procedurals like Dragnet, this cornball comedy, the first in a series of three equally eye-roll inducing, groanworthy spoofs, introduces Frank Drebin, a police officer as bungling and accident-prone as The Pink Panther's Inspector Clouseau, in this instalment charged with protecting the Queen from a troop of remote-controlled killers - oh, and that reminds me: OJ Simpson is in it.

★★★☆☆

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