Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

Quick-fire gag comedy in the style of Airplane, with frequent sight gags and puns, and parodies of other films. I particularly liked the reference to Silence of the Lambs when they visit the high security prisoner in his high security glass-fronted cell: there is a Garfield stuck to the glass.

The plot is a bit complex, but two policemen are trying to destroy a conspiracy to achieve world domination by distributing drugs via Girl Scout cookie deliveries. Early in the film, Tim Curry makes such a delivery; we see a little girl (but we only see her from the waist down at first) skipping up to the front door of a house; then a cigarette is thrown to the ground and stubbed out, telling us there is more to this delivery than meets the eye.

Much later in the film, a couple are in a remote bungalow making love, naked, when there is a helicopter attack by the baddies. In their haste to get out, they dress quickly in the dark, and they rush outside and stop ... horror ... they have put each others' underwear on by mistake.

The film is slated in some quarters for being unoriginal and weak; but heck, it's not Shakespeare, it's just a funny film.

It is sometimes quoted as National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1.

HF January 2004

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