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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is a 1991 comedy film starring Leslie Nielsen as the comically bumbling Police Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad!. Priscilla Presley plays the role of Jane, with O.J. Simpson as Nordberg and George Kennedy as police chief Ed Hocken. Also starring Robert Goulet as the villanous Quentin Hapsburg and Richard Griffiths as renewable fuel advocate Dr Albert S. Meinheimer.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mel Tormé and members of the Chicago Bears have cameo roles.

It is the first sequel to The Naked Gun
. It was followed by The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
.

Tagline: Frank Drebin is back. Just accept it.

Plot

Despite the humorous nature of the film, with many sight gags and subtle and not so subtle jokes throughout, it has a quite complex plot.

Dinner at the Whitehouse

The movie begins at the White House in Washington, D.C., where Frank Drebin is at a meeting of important people with President George Bush, his chief of staff, John Sununu, Nelson Mandela and others. The President announces that he will base his recommendation for the country's energy program on whatever Dr. Meinheimer recommends. The heads of fossil fuel and nuclear industry look over at each other suspiciously at this point. But the antics of Frank Drebin for the most part completely obscure what is going on; he accidentally beats up Barbara Bush several times (at the start of the film where he hits her when he comes through the door, he pulls out her chair for a beautiful woman who walks past and she falls over, he then bangs her head against the table trying to pick her up) Food flies all over the place as he is trying to eat there. The names of the fossil fuel people are funny acronyms, such as the head of the nuclear industry - the Key Atomic Benefits Office Of Mankind - or K.A.B.O.O.M.; the coal industry is the Society for MOre Coal Energy - or SMOKE; the oil industry's name is SPILL. The rest of the movie involves the attempts by these fossil fuel industry people to stop Dr. Meinheimer from implementing environmentally friendly policies. Interestingly, it is later revealed in the story that the doctor was going to give his results at the dinner at the start but because of Frank Drebin 'making such a ruckus' he was not able to - so all the events of the movie can be blamed at Frank Drebin's stupidity at the start of the movie.

Red van

Jane Spencer is then shown late at night at the Meinheimer research institute crying as she is thinking about Frank, whom she had dated in the first Naked Gun film, while Dr. Meinheimer tries to console her. They look out the window and see a man get into a red van and leave. In the background a maintenance man picks up a bomb with an alarm clock on it and takes it down to the security guards downstairs. One guard looks at it and says "hey thats a pretty nice clock. I wonder why they threw it out" - the other turns to him and says "probably because its four minutes too slow" and changes the time, setting off the bomb. Then we are shown the bombscene where Frank interviews Jane who says that she saw a red van leave the scene of the crime the night before. He then is shown around the institute and meets Jane's boyfriend, Quentin Hapsburg, who he becomes exceedingly jealous of, calling him 'Mr. poopy pants' and telling him he probably read the book on male sexual dysfunction. At the police station, the police have identified the driver of the van as Hector Savage, and Frank, Ed and Nordberg head off to the red light district of Little Italy to a sex shop where he has been tracked down to, where it turns out that Frank is known by name to one of the employees there. They spot the red van upon entering the store, which Nordberg is given the task of bugging. While he is doing this, Savage takes off in the van and Nordberg see him, so then he decides to leave, but as he tries to, his sleave gets trapped and now Nordberg is trapped under the moving van, whilst at the same time Frank and Ed follow it in their car. Nordberg does eventually get himself free, but it then rolling down a road hill at high velocity and then ends up getting trapped under Franks car. As the car is driving along, Nordberg is hit several times by objects in the road as it is a running joke that he keeps getting hurt through the films. Frank and Ed pursue him in their car, and when he finally stops Nordberg is propelled forward and ends up getting stuck under a bus to Detroit. Savage is held up in a suburban home, surrounded by police, and Frank commandeers a tank, which he drives into the house, missing Savage who was about to surrender, but once again due to the stupidity of Frank Drebin escapes. Frank then drives the tank into the Washington zoo where many animals escape.

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