The Naked Gun: Encyclopedia II - The Naked Gun - Plot

The Naked Gun - Plot

The plot of the series is a basic parody of detective film clichés, featuring stereotypical characters, settings, and situations. Many other film genres and styles are mocked as well, and the movies are full of references to current events and contemporary pop culture. The style of the humor is similar to that of The Simpsons with frequent parodies of other films.

The movie starts in a meeting at Beirut with a collection of anti-American leaders; Ayatollah Khomeni, Mikhail Gorbachev (who claims he has the Americans believing he is "a nice guy"), Yasser Arafat, Muammar al-Qaddafi and Idi Amin, who are planning a terrorist act. The man who later turns out to be Pap Shmear is seen at this meeting. It turns out that Frank Drebin has been posing undercover as a waiter and starts beating up everyone before escaping out the window.

Back in Los Angeles, officer Nordburg is investigating a heroin drug operation at the docks when he is seen by the person who is later found out to be Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalbán), and is shot by his goons. It is a running joke that Nordburg keeps getting badly injured, but somehow manages to survive. Frank visits him in hospital, where there is later another attempt on his life, which leads to Frank following the assassin in a Learner driver's car, until the assassin crashes an army rocket into a fireworks factory.

Papshmir is seen meeting with Vincent Ludwig in his office, where Ludwig says that he will assassinate the Queen of England for $100 million. Ludwig demonstrates that he has a way of turning anyone into an assassin by pressing a beeper.

Later the Queen is at a California Angels game while Frank must find out how Ludwig plans to assassinate her. Frank must hide from police who the mayor has ordered to arrest him if he turns up, and Frank knocks out 'renowned opera singer' Enrico Palazzo, takes his clothes and then sings the US national anthem at the stadium. (badly, forgetting many of the words) Frank then pretends to be an umpire to search the players, and eventually saves the Queen's life by accidentally shooting a fat woman with his sleep inducing dart fired from his cufflinks, who falls on top of the player (Reggie Jackson) who was about to shoot the Queen. Ludwig escapes, and holds Jane hostage, where Frank shoots him with the cufflink dart, and he falls off the balcony, getting run over by a steamroller. A marching band then marches over him, pressing the beeper which makes Jane try to kill Frank. Frank talks her out of it, at the same time his speech is broadcast on the stadium screen, causing the crowd to stop fighting and make up. The mayor thanks Frank, saying the whole world owes him a debt of gratitude, and he is also congratulated by Nordburg, who seems much better, but Frank pats him on the back which sends him flying down the aisle and up over the edge of the stadium as the movie ends.

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