Rod Ressell

Seth MacFarlane did it again. If you thought A Million Ways to Die in the West would be anything close to Blazing Saddles, you probably went into The Naked Gun thinking it would be on par with the Leslie Nielsen classics. You would be very wrong—again. The reboot has about ten gags, and they’re all in the trailer. There’s little to no parody or comic timing. It’s a very linear, boring story that neither attempts to emulate the best parts of the Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker dynamic, nor tries at any point to be original. I found it remarkable how comedically sparse this movie was. Perhaps that’s because I watched all of the Police Squad! episodes, followed by the original Naked Gun trilogy—where every scene, every beat, had some kind of humorous visual or line of dialogue. I’m honestly baffled by the positive response to this movie, but I also grew up in the era of George Carlin and Richard Pryor, so I’m probably just out of touch with what qualifies as entertainment these days.

Brilliantly done, great costumes, sets, everykind of special effect a available at the time. A marvelous micro budget movie 🍿

A bizarre and extraordinarily frustrating, fantasy-scfi show, riddled with schizophrenic character motivations, that are slopped together with cliched, meaningless dialogue. ("Your final lesson is one you teach yourself. ”When you’re looking up to heroes, you don’t have to face what’s right in front of you.") Hollow, contradictory platitudes encapsulated within meta-personal psychobabble, the show is relentlessly condescending to the viewer, and it's own characters within the story. The 'character' motivations are annoying, vague, then loosely hot glued together by strained, childish reasoning. It's storytelling, that avoids any consequence, and as a result, never challenges its own banality. Any action that approaches cohesion, quickly collapses with a scribble scrabble hand wave, and a dull smattering of buzzwords like Jedi, and Sith. When they are mentioned, they are consistently absent of any moral or logical context. The Acolyte is less a fun, coherent story in an established universe, and more of a hyperventilating, current day lecture, with no point whatsoever. There's a palpable indifference to structure and meaning, and I hope they make a season 2, I would likely buy Disney stock if it drops to $50 a share.