Lethal Wit 1 (Loaded Weapon 1 (DVD))

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Product:	Loaded Weapon 1 (DVD)
Date:	11/03/04 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick-fire gags, illustrious cast, great one-liners

Disadvantages: Bellyache

I picked this up for £5 on DVD recently, and it's an absolute bargain. The film is a comedy spoof, and is a perfect addition to the National Lampoon series.

James L. Brooks once explained that he was always trying to put jokes in where people wouldn't even think to put them in, hence the Simpons on The Tracey Ullman Show. Loaded Weapon 1 is a perfect example of cramming as many gags into one film as possible. True, the plot is pretty non-existant, but it doesn't need one. You don't watch this film to get heavily involved in plotlines.

The gags are thick and fast - I find myself rewinding sequences to see them all. It's the little differences - cops limbo dancing under 'Do not cross' lines at crime scenes (except it's 'fresh blood' lines), Sam Jackson dishing out hair products to officers ("Hey sarge, it's tingling.". "That means it's working"), I could name a hundred others. And the beauty of these jokes is that half of time they aren't the main focus of the camera, they're background action, while there's another joke going on in the foreground.

You could criticise the acting, but Sam Jackson is plays an excellent deadpan, and to get great comedy you've got to have good comedy actors. Emilio Estevez and his brother Charlie Sheen are not stranger to spoof films, and it's now you can come to the other talent on show. William Shatner is superb as the villain, Tim Curry (another excellent comedy actor), John Lovitz, Lance Kinsy. And then the cameos - the late, great Phil Hartman (of Simpons fame), Denis Leary, Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Willis (who is uncredited), Paul Gleason, James Doohan (scotty) and try to spot Denise Richards in what I think is her first film role.

Let's get it straight. This isn't Saving Private Ryan. It's a film that wants the audience to laugh, and in some cases cry with laughter, at the jokes. And it&
#39;s not just toilet humour (reference another superb toilet gag), sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's in your face, and sometimes I had to pause it so I could wipe the tears from my eyes. Buy it - it'll be the best £5 you spend this year.

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