Top 10 Guilty Pleasure Film Franchises
7. The Naked Gun Leslie Nielsens slapstick brand of humor doesn't work for everyone. It's a kind of humor which doesn't seem to be appreciated by too many younger people. For the youthful this might be just Dad's guilty pleasure. But half the point of a guilt pleasure is that it's not for everyone. As with many of the guilty pleasure comedies, the sequels here are little more than recreations of the original with new settings to spice up the jokes a bit. There are times during The Naked Gun films where the jokes get so bad its hard not to cringe, but thats what makes them awesomely bad instead of just plain awesome. Leslie Nielsen is willing to push the audience to the brink with any joke. Take the minute long toilet humor gag. A lot of people just yawn, but for some, that's the funniest thing the will ever see on screen. What do they care if the populous thinks it is tasteless drivel? Guilty pleasures are about you, the movie, and having fun - nothing else. Looking back now the Naked Gun series does benefit from more than simply crass gags. They had O.J. Simpson! There is a very funny kind of poetic justice in watching O.J.s character (Officer Nordberg) get devastated by pain gag after pain gag for three straight films. Sure it doesnt quite make up for him getting away with murdering two people in cold blood, but it does add an extra (pun infused) guilty pleasure angle to any revisiting of the series; one that anyone can appreciate.