More than ten years before Pedro Pascal appeared for the first time in Buffy against vampires (Yes!), Zaz did not mention someone who wants love, joy, good humor, but The trio David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker. Three masters of the parodic comedy American responsible for Is there a pilot on the plane? Top secret!or Is there a cop to save the queen?. Together or separately – Abrahams notably signing the Hot Shots! Alone – with the help of Pat Proft, they scratched their contemporaries with a sense of rhythm and a wealth that many will have tried to reproduce, with very little result.
Works whose author of his lines sanded the magnetic band and then the pancake until they know by heart. An affect that must be specified, because it irreparably comes into account when it is necessary to talk about this new Is there a cop to save the world?or Naked Gun of its original title, new version. To defend a remake or reboot, the industry tends to advance the argument thatYou have to know how to detach yourself from the model. We will answer him that If the result is up to par, it is naturally done. Otherwise, the comparison is and will remain inevitableoften in the deficit of the new frame. And here?
Frank Drebin Jr., son of the famous cop, followed in the footsteps of his father and is one of the most (in) competent lieutenants of the special brigade. A brigade whose existence is today threatened in the face of the poor results of its police officers. Except that a murder business leading to a powerful industrialist may well allow Drebin to save his post, and the world.
The weight of the step
On paper, entrust the orders of this reboot to Akiva Schaffer is not deflying. The man responsible for ICT and TAC, risk rangers has already tasted parody with its very good Popstar: famous at all costs and, above all, its many years to achieve and script for the Saturday Night Live whose genre is a bit like the trademark. By his side in the script, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, whose names will speak to fans ofHow I Met Your Mother.
In many ways, This 2025 version is absolutely not the supposed disaster. We must recognize the trio understanding the humor of the Zaz and the desire to stick to it. Comedy knows how to go in all directions and play on each painting of the absurd, whether in terms of dialogues or staging. Without finding the generosity of the ancients there, this Naked Gun do everything to walk in their footsteps and several valves hit the bull’s eye. It will remain much more successful than certain ersatz of the time as Is there a cop to save humanity? In the trumpeur French title (not a film from the saga) and which staged Ophélie Winter (!).
However, The film also transpires the weight of the past On several layers. Akiva Schaffer forged the vast majority of his career on the sketch and he has a hard time going beyond it at the head of a feature film. The rhythm of Is there a cop to save the world? is unequal And where each ZAZ was swinging his wacky without giving the spectator time to breathe, this reproduction often takes the time to install them. TEl a sketch, each sequence seems to dictate by a replica coming or a stupidity in the background. The actors’ game seeks too much to accentuate the dialogues and the camera moves upstream when it is necessary to happen. Difficult to laugh at Pamela Anderson taking a pole when she already sees her head towards this one.
Everything seems mechanical, prepared, responding to a precise tempo, with a lack of natural ease. In short, it sounds false and only a few jokes manage to surprise. A lack of spontaneity accentuated by the fact that many ideas come directly from previous filmswhether they belong to the ZAZ or to the friends. One of the most significant sequences of the footage is only a extended version of an idea ofAustin Powers 2. And we no longer count the other occasions of the ancients Naked Gun.
Is there a cop to save the world? No
Put Liam Neeson at the head of the project sounded like an interesting risk taking. It must be said that it is not so much the comic roles of the gentleman as his recent filmography that has been laughing lately. It is nice to see the actor sincerely having fun by parodying this figure of a man of action that he has become. We feel that this project has almost a cathartic significance and its serious air acts perfectly well in contrast to the lack of serious ambient.
However, what made the salt of the original franchise held as much zaz as from the delectable interpretation of Leslie Nielsen. A jovial face, a look that sparkled, it was enough to see him on the camera for already wanting to laugh, despite his first degree. He is one of those actors who have lived in a character to the point of making any attempted replacement extremely complicated, an impossible limit. By taking an actor at the antipodes of the Nielsen game, while playing the assumed parentage, Is there a cop to save the world? took a courageous risk, but above all suicidal. We salute the reckless choice of Neeson, the result is a bit inappropriate. A Steve Carell might have better pulled out of the game …
Is there an audience to save the film?
It remains to approach a question. The same that we recently posed to Remember… last summer. Who is this film to be intended for? It is undeniable that the comparison with the previous films inhabited our opinion, even if that apart, the feature film has shown several limits. Should we take a step back and estimate that this production aims more for a new audience which would not have the knowledge of a distant inheritance?
Everything suggests it, and yet. Yet, The cast itself, composed of Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in main stars, cannot be considered a carrier for a new generation. The first has no longer really returned to box office success from a lease and the second remains a major figure of television … a few decades ago.
If the parodic genre works, it is because it likes to make fun of works or genres immediately identifiable. Is there a cop to save the world? Is a replica of his seniors, simply modernizing his investigation, but attacks nothing specific, with some exceptions. The codes of the thriller are there, but a thriller already marked by time. While a new Scary Movie is in pre-production, it is easier to imagine an audience interested in a film parodying the slew of horrifying works whose cinema wanders us each year than in a banal story of cops.
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In fact, we find ourselves assuming that the feature film is aimed at us, an amateur spectator of the former. And if all will not lend themselves to the comparison, by voluntary abstraction or by confusion of memories, it is obvious that This cop has nothing to please everyoneand even less save it.
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