Movies that feel like The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
If you loved The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, the closest films we have are Blazing Saddles (1974), Raising Arizona (1987) and Adam's Apples (2005). All three share The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Paramount Plus Premium, MUBI and Starz and others, checked against today's data.
If The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) · Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
Two things both keep coming back to: satire and parody
The difference: Played as western first
Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy
The same preoccupation in both: spoof
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly
One thread runs through both: dark comedy
The difference: Not nearly as gritty
David Zucker directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The same mix in both: wit, then play
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft
The same hand behind both of them: David Zucker
Both land grit and dark humor at once
Both keep coming back to the same thing: washington dc, usa
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