裸枪重启：笑料解析

IF THERE WERE fears that Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of The Naked Gun wouldn’t be able to match the astonishing gag rate of its Zucker- Abrahams-Zucker predecessors, those were pretty swiftly allayed when the film arrived. Liam Neeson gave it great deadpan as Frank Drebin Jr, and Schaffer — one-third of The Lonely Island, comedy historian, and director of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — adeptly marshalled an astonishing array of gags of all kinds: one-liners, puns, sight, parody and, most crucial of all, funny. Empire jumped onto Zoom with Schaffer recently to break down our favourites. …