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With: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, Moses Jones, Cody Rhodes, Busta Rhymes, Jon Anik, Michael Bisping, Bruce Buffer, John McCarthy, Dave Bautista, "Weird Al" Yankovic
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Written by: Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Akiva Schaffer
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Directed by: Akiva Schaffer
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude/sexual material, violence/bloody images and brief partial nudity
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Running Time: 85
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Date: 08/01/2025
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Being Frank
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Another in a seemingly endless string of mining old franchises for new movies continues with this amiable, silly fourth movie in a series that left off in 1994. Liam Neeson is surprisingly deft in his comic timing, playing Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin. Pamela Anderson is also well-cast as Beth Davenport, the love interest who asks Frank to investigate the possible murder of her brother. Everything revolves around a stolen "P.L.O.T. Device" (that made me laugh), which will cause humans to revert back to primitive behavior while billionaires take over. Paul Walter Hauser plays Frank's partner, the son of George Kennedy's Ed Hocken, and Danny Huston is the villainous billionaire Richard Cane. It all runs a refreshingly tight 85 minutes.
The Blu-ray release from Paramount includes a Dolby Atmos audio track, audio description, and many languages and subtitles. Bonus featurettes are "A Legacy of Laughter" (8:57), "Son of a (Naked) Gun" (5:59), "The Funny Femme Fatale" (4:32), "The Really Unusual Suspects" (4:22), "On Set of a Set Within a Set That's in a Set" (3:42), and "Dropping the Balls" (3:26), plus outtakes (12:28), and deleted, alternate & extended scenes (16:32). Recommended.
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