As Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson star in the reboot, we look back at the 1988 Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley.

The action star plays deadpan detective Frank Drebin Jr. in director Akiva Schaffer’s welcome sequel to the police-parody film franchise that began in 1988.

Once again, a police procedural serves as the movie’s framework, complete with shadow-forming Venetian blinds and hardboiled monologuing. This time, though, thanks to Nielsen’s flinty presence (and all those “Taken” thrillers),