The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
If you see only one movie this year... you ought to get out more often.
Country
Production
Budget
$23 000 000
Box office
$86 930 411
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Robert M. Stevens
Composer
Ira Newborn
Artist
John J. Lloyd
Audition
Editing
Christopher Greenbury, James R. Symons
Whole Team (70)
Whole Team (70)
Short description
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
What's left behind the scenes
- Zsa Zsa Gabor appears in the opening credits. She approaches a police siren and knocks it over, saying: "And this happens every fucking time when I go shopping" — this is a parody of her own arrest in 1989 for a similar hit on a police officer.
- The film, like other works by Abrams and Zucker, repeats jokes that were already in the series "Police Squad!" (1982): the name of the "Little Italy" neighborhood is played on — when Frank drives through this neighborhood, the Roman Colosseum is visible in the car's rear window; a feature of action films is parodied — in one scene, people shoot at each other at close range, but don't hit each other (a parody of "The Lawless" (1951)).
- In the scene in the "Blue Note" bar, full of sad people, with melancholic blues music — photographs hang on the wall: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1937 LZ 129 "Hindenburg" disaster, the Titanic, and Michael Dukakis (who lost to Bush in the 1988 election). Later, portraits of Neville Chamberlain, the Edsel car (a major failure for Ford), and the Hubble Telescope (considered an expensive failure until 1993).
- “Weird Al” Yankovic appeared in a cameo role in the film – he plays a criminal who has an entire police station in his sights, but then Frank, played by Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010), walks into the station, throws open the door, and knocks the criminal off his feet. According to Yankovic himself, the scene was filmed more than 20 times, and after approximately the 16th take, he developed a large bruise on his leg, to the point that at one point he was even asked if he wanted some padding to protect his leg from the door.
- Filming took place in Los Angeles from November 27, 1990, to March 7, 1991.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor appears in the opening credits. She walks up to a police car siren and knocks it off, saying: "Ach, this happens every fucking time when I go shopping" — this is a parody of her own 1989 arrest for a similar blow dealt to a police officer.
- As in other works by Abrahams and Zucker, the film repeats jokes that previously appeared in the series "Police Squad!" (1982): the name of the "Little Italy" neighborhood is played for laughs — as Frank drives through the district, the Roman Colosseum is visible through the rear window; it also parodies an action movie trope — in one scene, people shoot at each other at point-blank range but never hit their target (a parody of the film "The Lawmaker" (1951)).
- In the scene at the "Blue Note" bar, filled with sad people and melancholy blues music, photographs hang on the wall: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, the Titanic, and Michael Dukakis (who lost to Bush in the 1988 election). Later, a portrait of Neville Chamberlain, an Edsel car (a major failure for the Ford company), and the Hubble Telescope (which was considered a costly failure until 1993) are shown.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic appears in a cameo role as a criminal holding the entire police station at gunpoint; however, Frank, played by Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010), enters the station, swinging the door open and knocking the criminal off his feet. According to Yankovic, the scene was filmed more than 20 times, and after approximately the 16th take, he developed a massive bruise on his leg, to the point where he was asked if he wanted a soft pad to protect his leg from the door strikes.
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