Films like The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
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