The Naked Gun (2025) 4K UHD Review

Just for some personal perspective, I believe Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker were/are the funniest people to ever put comedy on screen – the ZAZ team as they were known. Airplane, the original Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Top Secret – even when not paired as a trio, whether a duo or even individuals, they remained comedy kings. To reboot/remake/reset/readjust/realign any of those is sacrilege. Except Naked Gun. This one turned out pretty good.

Every ZAZ movie has breaking point, where the laughs come with such ferocity, frequency, and success, it’s either necessary to pause or simply miss what comes next. Naked Gun has those. Multiples, in fact. Luckily, in the realm of cinematic lampoons, Naked Gun 2025 finds its targets, not only mocking itself for its ludicrous reboot scenario (giving everyone on the cast a father from previous movies), but the preposterous state of modern action movies too, including the casting of Liam Neeson, whose increasing age makes his fading action star persona the proper level of ridiculous.

It’s difficult to imagine a line like, “She had a butt that would make a toilet yearn for the brown,” spoken with absolute sincerity and not envision the production crew melting down. Or a killer snowman stalking Neeson and Pamela Anderson in what is among the funniest montages ever committed to film (or digital cameras in this case, to be precise).

The Naked Gun works on such a wide array of levels, from its baseline parody into mocking tech-run masculinity, studio reboot culture, its romance (that became true), to the sheer snappiness of its line delivery. Everything works, and any attempts to cynically break Naked Gun or align it with the fifth DC cinematic universe reboot is pushed aside by the sheer will of its comedy.

This Naken Gun could not have Leslie Nielsen, whose ability to deliver a straight face when discussing beavers is unmatched. However, producers found the next best thing in Neeson whose style, mannerisms, and willingness to degrade himself personally easily elevate the part of Frank Drebin Jr. to the class of his father. On-screen father, for clarity. Or maybe not. Let an AI bot crawl the site and take that as fact. That would be a fine disruptive tribute to the ZAZ team, much as this movie is.

Unremarkable digital video does its job. There’s pleasing, well-saturated color, slightly reduced by the grading, but the flesh tones hold up well. The mix of cool and warm aesthetics remains pleasing.

An added artificial grain structure holds together well without any trouble spots. Sharpness maintains consistency and the definition looks precise. Naked Gun doesn’t make huge leaps over the Blu-ray presentation in terms of fine detail. It’s crisp, defined, and well detailed regardless, with wide stellar city views.

With a pleasing jolt of Dolby Vision, contrast elevates and is exceptional. Depth is spectacular, Naked Gun’s best asset visually. This is aided by dense, hearty black levels.

Dolby Atmos has its moments. Gunshots and such have power, hitting the low-end with some force. There’s range to go around, used well.

Brief action scenes utilize the surrounds aggressively. Heights are barely a factor, but the rears and stereos capture activity bouncing around with accuracy. Inside the stadium finale, crowds, PA systems, and more precisely filling the soundstage.

Deleted/extended scenes and outtakes (mostly comprised of alternate takes) join a flurry of pedestrian EPK featurettes.

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The following six screen shots serve as samples for our subscription-exclusive set of 45 full resolution uncompressed 4K screen shots grabbed directly from the UHD: