Words Robb Sheppard

You always hear that they don’t make ‘em like they used to. Well, this year – they do!

The Lonely Island member and director of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Akiva Schaffer, along with producer Seth MacFarlane, bring The Naked Gun out of retirement after thirty years, with a mission to make fun of films again. Bad genre tropes and baddies beware: the Police Squad are here!

Liam Neeson stars as the son of the late, great Frank Drebin Sr. For new recruits, Lieutenant Drebin Sr is the legendarily disastrous detective made famous by the iconic Leslie Nielsen in a series of classic, joke-a-minute comedies. If Jr’s following in his father’s footsteps, then he better watch his step as prat falls, parody, and the perfect amount of toilet humour are sure to be in his crosshairs.

Bringing a new generation of the classic crime-busting trio together, Paul Walter Hauser stars as Ed Hocken Jr, the son of Police Squad’s long-suffering Captain, while Moses Jones plays the son of Drebin Sr’s partner, Nordberg – as played by, err… someone who’s ammo for a joke or two. Will they go there?

With WWE superstar Cody Rhodes, rapper Busta Rhymes, and a rejuvenated, Golden Globe-nominated Pamela Anderson in the exciting supporting squad, The Naked Gun is surely a guaranteed good time.

It is, and don’t call us Shirley.

Good Cop, Funny Cop

Hot Fuzz

Catching a missing swan, popping to the shop for a cornetto, and taking down a countryside culy before heading to the pub and then home for a movie marathon. It's all in a day's work for Nicholas Angle and Danny Butterman in this classic. Perfick.

Bad Boys

You still ain't seen Bad Boys 2? I'ts got fast laughs, slow-mo explosions, and the kind of buddy cop camaraderie not seen since the eighties. It's essentional nineties nostaglia and pure escapism.

The Heat

Finally, a female-led cop film. Melissa McCarthy is loud and foul-mouthed while Sandra Bullock is strait-laced and uyptight. Pair them up, set them on the trail of a drug lord, and sit back and laugh at the seriously entertaining improv.