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The Naked Gun
Movie

The Naked Gun

2025 • Action, Comedy, Crime

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

Following in his father's footsteps, a detective works to solve a murder case and save his police department from closure.

Overall Series Review

The film is a direct continuation of the classic slapstick parody style, focusing on rapid-fire absurdity, visual gags, and crude humor, following Lt. Frank Drebin Jr.'s bumbling efforts to solve a crime and save the Police Squad. The narrative pits the protagonist against a corrupt, wealthy male tech mogul who seeks to plunge the world into chaos, which provides a traditional moral premise of justice overcoming greed. The humor is noted for its political irreverence and is described by some commentary as a spoof of modern 'woke society.' The main conflict is the survival of a classic, albeit farcical, American institution, the police department. The structure is built around a male-female romance and an action-comedy plot, not on delivering political lectures. While the film includes explicit sexual humor and an occult parody scene, the overall thrust is anti-ideological comedy.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The plot centers on a white male legacy character, Frank Drebin Jr., who is the bumbling hero, with a white male billionaire as the main villain. The lead characters are judged solely on their ineptitude or greed, not their immutable characteristics. The film contains no apparent themes of white vilification, systemic oppression, or forced diversity messaging, but rather spoofs modern political society, earning the lowest score in this category.

Oikophobia1/10

The central dramatic conflict is the hero's quest to save the Police Squad, a Western institution, from being closed and replaced with something frivolous, directly opposing the idea of civilizational self-hatred. Frank Drebin Jr. actively follows in his deceased father's footsteps, showing respect for his ancestry and tradition. The overall theme is protective of the institution, even if it's a vehicle for parody.

Feminism2/10

The male protagonist is a bumbling idiot, but his incompetence is the foundational joke of the entire franchise, a parody of the 'cowboy cop' archetype, not a targeted emasculation of all men. The female lead, Beth Davenport, is a crime writer and Drebin's romantic partner, and she is presented as a desirable character. Frank Jr. expresses a desire to marry Beth. The Chief of Police is a black woman, but she operates as a straight authority figure necessary for the plot, not a Mary Sue.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative structure is based on a traditional heterosexual romance between Frank Drebin Jr. and Beth Davenport. The plot does not center on alternative sexualities, deconstruct the nuclear family, or inject gender ideology. Any sexual content is limited to traditional (though crude and highly vulgar) sex comedy, innuendo, and visual gags, keeping the focus on normative pairing.

Anti-Theism5/10

The film does not present institutional religion, specifically Christianity, as the root of evil; Christian characters are not depicted as villains or bigots. However, the film features a scene where the romantic leads comically perform an occult ritual with an 'occultic, satanic circle' to bring a snowman to life, which shifts the content toward irreverence and the embrace of a mixed pagan/occult worldview for comedic effect. The film still concludes with a strong moral premise that justice prevails and revenge is rejected.