godfreecharlie
Stopped at the Bounce channel while surfin'. Ended up catching 3/4 of one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. The whole cast works well together and the writing helps keep the laughs nonstop. Surprisingly there's some continuity by keeping previous sub-plots alive and updated, example: Claire the dog. All in all a good funny story. National Lampoon movies are great at this.
gridoon2018
By no means the best of its subgenre, but when you feel like switching on a film that will require no thinking whatsoever, it will help you pass 80 minutes easily enough. Most of the gags are familiar, but I did laugh at certain points. It never really tops its opening sequence, a spot-on parody of convenience store shootouts, although my single favorite line comes later: "Quid pro quo, Mr. Colt" - "What the hell does that mean?" - "It means I'm pretentious!". ** out of 4
Mr-Fusion
I can't get over just how stupid this movie was . . . and how I loved every minute of it. "Loaded Weapon 1" is, for my money, the last great spoof movie. It marks the end of an era, especially considering how movies have sought to do away with the idea of lampooning something in favor of excessive references. Man, that's tragic. The whole thing's right up my alley; set your sights on the Lethal Weapon movies (or at least the bloated carcass they became), take shots at every single '80s action movie cliché in the book, and do it all in the spirit of "Sledge Hammer!". It's foolproof. And everyone here (Estevez, Jackson, Curry, Shatner) plays it so comically absurd that you can't help but laugh at just how willing they are to throw themselves on the skewer doing it. Even Jon Lovitz is funny. That ain't no small feat. And in all honesty, the Bruce Willis cameo is my favorite of his work outside of "Die Hard". I love this movie. The one-liners are priceless, the sentiment irresistible, and the replay value is shocking. 9/10
donovan1983
Loaded Weapon 1 is not a masterpiece by any measure. It has plenty of moments that make you cringe at the bad acting and even worse attempts at spoofing the dozens of movies it takes aim at. Yet it has aged remarkably well and I'd rather watch this than a good number of the late-80s and early-90s movies it spoofs.Samuel L. Jackson and Emilio Estevez were very well cast for the lead roles. Imagining Jackson in a comedic role is a bit hard until you see how well he pulls it off in this movie, and he delivers some of the most memorable lines in the movie. Estevez is cast in a character that purposely requires a lot of over-acting and he does quite a good job at it. I think this is the most watchable of any movie where he is in a lead role.As others have mentioned, the number of recognizable names and cameos in this movie is pretty amazing for a movie that is pretty much a cheap shot at the movies that were popular when it was made. Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez's bother and a star of the Hot Shots! movies being made around the same time, appears in one scene. William Shatner, already known for being campy, puts his reputation to good use in playing General Mortars and makes the bad guy of the movie look absurd. Kathy Ireland just plain can't act although that may have been purposeful in this movie since it works for her role as Ms. Demeanor. James Doohan, Bruce Willis, Whoopie Goldberg, Dennis Leary, Joyce Brothers, and Phil Hartman are some of the other notable cameos and roles. Of course who could forget the lead characters from CHiPs appearing, too.I have to watch this at least a couple times a year and discover something new nearly every time I watch it. I can understand why it gets low ratings here, since if the movie is dissected enough it really doesn't stand up to much scrutiny, but as a whole it works very well as a spoof. Loaded Weapon 1 and the Hot Shots! movies are about the last notable National Lampoons efforts and among the best out of the (all too) numerous movies they made.
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