Those familiar with SNL alum/writer/actor/director Akiva Schaffer's humor will be better prepared than the uninitiated for his revival of a 30+-year-old franchise that many probably assumed was dead.
Leslie Nielsen was the original inept detective Frank Drebin back in the '80s and '90s, and in the fourth installment Liam Neeson is his equally inept son, Frank Jr., who is, without authorization, tracking a tech genius (Danny Huston) who has a cockamamie plan for world domination (or something) using a device brilliantly labeled in the first minutes of the film as "p.l.o.t. device."
Drebin is joined in the investigation by his partner, son of the original Ed Hocken (George Kennedy), Ed Jr., an always-winning Paul Walter Hauser, and grieving widow Beth Davenport, played by Pamela Anderson. (The Neeson and Anderson romance has kept Tinseltown beat writers busy for the past few months.)
The picture's dialogue is twisted and the sight gags are fast and furious -- or maybe that should be "the dialogue is fast and furious and the sight gags are twisted." In either it's a wonderful distraction from, but as I told the theater manager who asked me what I thought of the picture, "You can't drift off or you'll miss something."
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