The naked cannon 2½

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Movie
German title The naked cannon 2½
Original title The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Sugar
script David Zucker, Pat Proft
production Robert K. Weiss
music Ira Newborn
camera Robert M. Stevens
cut Christopher Greenbury , James R. Symons
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synchronization
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←  Predecessor
The naked cannon

Successor  →
The naked cannon 33⅓

Die nackte Kanone 2½ is a comedy film from 1991 and the second part of the Die-nackte-Kanone series, after Die nackte Kanone from 1988 and followed by Die nackte Kanone 33⅓ in 1994.

action

The industrialist Quentin Hapsburg wants to prevent alternative forms of energy that could make coal, oil and nuclear power superfluous. On this occasion he carried out a bomb attack on the institute of Dr. Meinheimer, who is to research alternatives on behalf of the government. In the course of the investigation, Frank Drebin meets his former lover Jane again, who now works as Hapsburg's assistant and is also with her boss. The bomb attack fails, but Hapsburg has Meinheimer kidnapped and replaced with a doppelganger. He should recommend the continuation of the use of conventional energy sources instead of the doctor.

At the crucial dinner Drebin can just see the appearance of the real Dr. Meinheimer guarantee. Then Hapsburg kidnaps Jane and activates a bomb that Frank and Jane can switch off at the last moment. Drebin refuses the President's offer to head a special department so that he can meet with Jane.

Allusions to other films

Some of the gags, such as the pistol fight less than two meters away or the questioning of Quasimodo as a witness, are clear offshoots from the TV series Police Squad , which provided the inspiration for the naked cannon films.

A number of allusions to other films are built into the film:

  • In the bar a pianist named Sam plays like in Casablanca . He does, however, play the song Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead a us the musical film The Wizard of Oz (1939).
  • At the ball, the wheelchair of the Meinheimer doppelganger gets a short circuit and flies in the style of ET - The Extra Terrestrial Past the Moon.
  • When Jane and Frank reconcile, they sit at the potter's wheel, reminiscent of the protagonists from Ghost - Message from Sam .
  • The atomic bomb scene is an allusion to the James Bond film Goldfinger , as Bond tries to defuse an atomic bomb-like appearance in it.

Trivia

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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor plays herself in a guest role: In the opening sequence, she hits the police car, which is an allusion to an incident in 1989 when she slapped a police officer.
  • In the bar The Blue Note you can see pictures etc. on the wall. a. from the explosion of the Hindenburg , the sinking of the Lusitania , the Edsel , Neville Chamberlain (British Prime Minister who had to resign in 1940) and Michael Dukakis (US presidential candidate from 1988 who lost to George HW Bush ).
  • As in the first part, Weird Al Yankovic has a short guest role, this time he doesn't play himself, but an armed gangster at the police station.
  • The man who is replaced by Frank while dancing with Jane at the ball is Mel Tormé . In the movie Top Secret! from 1984 the main character Nick Rivers posed as Mel Tormé in one scene (in the German dubbing it became Heino ). David Zucker directed both films.
  • The ship of the villain Quentin Hapsburg is called "Hapsburg Valdez" and is a reference to the name Exxon Valdez . The oil tanker caused one of the greatest environmental disasters in shipping in 1989.
  • When the main actors play Bésame mucho disguised as mariachi musicians , they turn the guitars like a pinwheel through 360 degrees in front of them. This is a reference to the band ZZ Top , who were known for this guitar effect.
  • Towards the end of the film, Lloyd Bochner has a book called “ To Serve Man ” in his hand and hysterically shouts “It's a cookbook!”. This scene comes from the Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man (German name: "Das Buch der Kanamiter") , in which Bochner played this scene in 1963. The background to this is the ambiguity of the book title in the English language: It can mean both “to serve people” and “to serve people” (ie to eat). In the Twilight scene, Bochner's book was recognized as a cookbook for humans by aliens who had landed on Earth.
  • The contours of Dr. Meinheimer refer to the painting Arrangement in Gray and Black: The Artist's Mother by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
  • Drebin's speech at the end ("I want a world ...") is reminiscent of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
  • The doctors used part of Drebin's closing speech at the beginning of their song Friedenspanzer from the album The Beast in Human Form .

criticism

"Continuation of 'The Naked Cannon', at times slow and less original, but still with enough absurd humor and some genre parodies that movie fans can amusingly unraveled."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

synchronization

The film was dubbed by the Berliner Synchron Wenzel Lüdecke company. The diaglogbook and direction are from Arne Elsholtz .

figure actor Voice actor
Lt. Frank Drebin Leslie Nielsen Horst Schön
Jane Spencer Priscilla Presley Uta Hallant
Commissioner Anabell Brumford Jacqueline Brookes Bettina Schön
Captain Ed Squat George Kennedy Klaus Piontek
Nordberg OJ Simpson Arne Elsholtz
Arthur Dunwell Peter Mark Richman Gerd Holtenau
Donald Fenswick Tim O'Connor Lutz Mackensy
Dr. Albert S. Mainheimer / Earl Hacker Richard Griffiths Gerd Duwner
Gangster in the police station Weird Al Yankovic Manuel Vaessen
Quentin Hapsburg Robert Goulet Frank Glaubrecht
President Bush John Roarke Eric Vaessen
Chief of Staff John Sununu Peter Van North Helmut Krauss
Ted Olsen Ed Williams Karl-Ulrich Meves
Zsa Zsa Gabor Zsa Zsa Gabor Monica Bielenstein

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The naked cannon 2½. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ The naked cannon 2½ In: fbw-filmbassy.com.
  3. ↑ dubbing , German dubbing index

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