Maybe it was the mood I was in but the most recent time I watched this movie I laughed my sss off.
Yes, it's nominally a spoof of other well-known movies from that era but there are enough solid jokes in here to keep you laughing in the same way that Airplane! And Naked Gun movies just keep firing gags at you. In fact, 28 years after its release I think the ''original" material holds up better than the ''spoof" material. Heck, the writer who came up with that 5-second throwaway gag with Claire The Dog squeezing lighter fluid on the charcoal grill should get lifetime ringside seats to The Westminster Dog Show.
My personal favorite part was when William Shatner - who is basically the godfather of self-satire - pays a visit to underling Dennis Leary's house and murders him for stealing Bill Hicks' act. I mean, the microfilm. As an aside, The Job was Leary at his bitter, funny peak. Rescue Me was a chick show.
Loaded Weapon loses some momentum when Kathy Ireland shows up. But it's still well worth your 90 minutes. It takes more than one viewing to catch all the jokes, and that makes it a lot of fun. I bet there are plenty of people out there who were in high school in 1993 who saw this every weekend at the drive-in that summer.
