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With the success of There's Something About Mary, the brothers Farrelly would seem to have inherited the dumb-comedy crown from the various talents who made Airplane! and its many descendants: Top Secret!, The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!. For the most part, that's true, but as Wrongfully Accused proves, there's a bit of life in the old shtick. Pat Proft, a screenwriter on The Naked Gun series and Hot Shots!, makes his directorial debut with this farce, which stars--surprise, surprise--Leslie Nielsen in a parody of the feature version of The Fugitive. More than that: Proft piles on joking references to a host of other dramas, including Casablanca, Mission: Impossible, and Braveheart. While the persistence of these inter-movie gags can wear a viewer down a bit, the fact is some of the silly stuff really does hit its target. If the progeny of Airplane! were to end with this movie, it would be a worthy way to say farewell to a once-good idea. The DVD includes trailers, a game, Dolby, audiovisual production notes, cast interviews, biographies and filmographies, English and French soundtracks, and English, French, and Spanish subtitles. With Kelly LeBrock, Richard Crenna, Sandra Bernhard, and Michael York. --Tom Keogh

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2.0 out of 5 stars starts off very good,but the jokes should have been spaced out a bit more (2.4/5), Aug 18 2007

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falcon "disdressed12" (canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrongfully Accused (DVD)

this movie starts out good.it's actually very funny for awhile.the
problems is the the jokes get stale and old,and many are way too much
of a stretch.there are some bits that try to be funny,but they have no
relevance to anything,and just come across flatter than a
pancake.sometimes you can take things too far.you don't need to try and
wring a joke out of everything.all tolled,though there are indeed some
hysterical moments in this movie,and Leslie Nielsen is as close to a
comedic genius as there is around today,not everything is fodder for
comedic value.if you're gonna make a movie like this,you should space
out the gags a bit better,or at least make sure the jokes are relevant
to the target audience.since this movie fails to take hose things into
account,the most i can give it is 2.4/5

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leslie Nielsen, King of Slapstick, May 3 2004

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Hadi Jones "The Tree" (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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If you haven't watched this outragously funny movie, watch it because its a guarantee that it will keep you laughing till you gut busts, great spoof from famous movies and a really funny story to go with it, this movie has earned it's position as the greatest slapstick movie of all time, i recommend with this that you watch another classic slapstick comedy, 'Airplane'. 10/10.

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5.0 out of 5 stars AN AWESOME NEISON FLICK!!!, Mar 20 2003

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This movie is awesome!! I loved the naked gun movies and this movie lives up to the standards of naked gun!!! It's really funny, just almost every scene is roll on the ground funny.

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1.0 out of 5 stars I'd give my copy away...
...but would have to really hate the recipient. This is the Worst movie that I've ever seen.
I normally like Nielsen's comedies, but this one just makes me cry for the... Read more

Published on Oct 18 2003 by Eric W

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Movie!
This is really a great movie. You can watch it over and over again and still catch funny things you missed the last time you saw it. Read more

Published on Sep 17 2002 by Humming bird