National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

What makes it different from others?

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Stopped at the Bounce channel while surfin'. Ended up catching 3/4 of one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. The whole cast works well together and the writing helps keep the laughs nonstop. Surprisingly there's some continuity by keeping previous sub-plots alive and updated, example: Claire the dog. All in all a good funny story. National Lampoon movies are great at this.

This one had Samuel L. Jackson in the Murtaugh role played by Danny Glover in the original series and Estevez in the Riggs role played by Mel Gibson, both do a relatively good job in this parody of that famous series. At this point there had been, I believe, three Lethal Weapon movies so there was plenty of things to spoof in this film though they did occasionally go outside that series for jokes most notable being a spoof on "Silence of the Lambs" that was funnier than most of the spoof of that movie "Silence of the Hams". This one follows the basic story of the Lethal weapon series combining and spoofing elements of all three movies at the time and of course having many b-list stars making cameo appearances like the cops from the television series Chips, Whoopie Goldberg and the funniest to me being William Shatner in the villain role. This would be the only film in this particular set of spoofs, but they really covered a lot of the first three movies so they would have been stretching it to make a sequel, that and I a do believe this movie did not do all that well at the box office to warrant a sequel. Still, it was a funny little spoof, not being really special like say Airplane, Top Secret, or Naked Gun as those had stand alone plots, but it managed to amuse like say the Scary movies did.

I laughed a lot when watching this movie, because it was so silly. I loved the cameos from Whoopi Goldberg and Denis Leary. I loved the silliness of the jokes. I loved the daftness of the story. This movie deserves to be highly rated as the whole point of a spoof is to laugh at the badness of it all, as most of it was just hilarious, and I mean that. I loved the references to other movies, without it becoming too offensive. The soundtrack was hip and cool, and the jokes on the whole worked. The performances were laugh out loud funny, especially from Estevez and Jackson, who couldn't be more different. (a bit like Rush Hour) There is also solid support from Jon Lovitz, Kathy Ireland, Tim Curry(with an accent that was a bit difficult to understand at times) and William Shatner. It did get a bit too silly at times, and the script suffered(though I loved the "no waking up without my penis is my worst nightmare" exchange between Jack and Jigsaw) but not that it was a huge disaster. Well worth watching if you're in a bad mood, or looking for fun! 8/10 Bethany Cox

Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Curry, Kathy Irerland, William Shatner, Jon Lovitz, Whoopi Goldberg, the list goes on and on, cameos from Bruce Willis,, Eric Estrada, and John Wilcox, has to be without the funniest parody ever made period, maybe Hots shots 1 and 2 close behind,, oh and yes Charlie Sheen cameo,, what a wonderful movie,, the Wilderness Girl Cookies are being laced with drugs,, and it's up to detectives Colt and Luger to stop them,, General Mortars is William Shatner,, the bad guy,, cameo also by Dennis Leary in here,, this is so funny it would take me two pages on here to list all of the funny one liners,, i can't remember laughing so hard at a movie ever,, it's that good,, i mean today you got let's see date movie,, scary movie.. epic movie,, come on,,, even scream is wearing thin,, here,, this was classic,, and will never be forgotten , at least in my mind,, this movie is a 10 plus plus for me,, go watch it,, and you will see.