If you loved Scary Movie 4, try The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

You already loved

Scary Movie 4

Scary Movie 4

2006 · dir. David Zucker

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

1991 · dir. David Zucker

What they share

Both films are directed by David Zucker, and they both carry the cozy mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Scary Movie 4, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is

Washington DC, summer, a briefcase full of papers. A bumbling detective crashes a high-society party, energy executives scheme in the shadows, a plot to suppress innovation unfolds. This sequel is funniest when it leans into absurdity.