I found a copy of 1974's "Man on a Swing" and decided to watch it because it had Lane Smith, Gil Gerard and Tanya Roberts in it. It's an altogether serious movie about police detectives investigating murdered teens. This movie opens with a one minute-20 second "one take scene" shot by a camera mounted on the police car roof--behind the flashing light bar. It looks like you see the entire drive from the station to the crime scene. Perhaps some other police movie had a similar opening sequence. But it's clear this movie's opening scene alone would have been sufficient to inspire the comedic version of the same viewpoint that opens "The Naked Gun".

Crazy literal humour from Leslie neilson and cast, always a fun watch with quotable lines!

I can watch this movie over and over and STILL laugh out loud...classic comedy! The deadpan slapstick humor is fantastic in this and I have yet to tire of this movie!I don't think this will ever become extinct...right up there with Animal House, Airplane 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop and Fast Times At Ridgemont High. An absolute classic of its generation.

For a lot of people, this film happened to be the last great parody movie ever made. It seems like right after this movie, the parody genre just got worse and worse. We finally hit rock bottom with "Disaster Movie" ranked as the worst film of all time by the IMDb. Were people just thinking this movie was a tough act to follow? There have been zero spoof movies since that would be considered truly great. If nothing else, we can at least look back at this once great style. I heard "Sausage Party" was technically a spoof, but it still wasn't on the same level as these old ones. Modern spoof movies just have the characters fart and poop all the time, but these ones actually made us laugh.It is kind of weird looking back and seeing OJ in a good movie role. Of course, he does get injured in this movie a lot. This film is great from the very first jokes. I think my favorite part would be when he says, "Bingo!" and finds a Bingo card. This is another movie you have to pay attention to in order to get all the laughs in. I just love how this film escalates in its zaniness. Even if you've seen a compilation of best parts like me, there's still more to love. The madness doesn't even end with the credits. There's this gag where they list every person by labeling them with their dialogue! It actually does make sense, in a really amusing way. The pop culture references are a lot more subtle than other films and it works much better that way.This is what comedy should be. The slapstick is wonderfully timed. Everything comes together so well in this. There's always jokes that build up to each other and best of all, it has a coherent story. They do work hard to make these jokes relevant as to what is going on, not just random interchangeable gags. Even better is that I actually really do care about the main characters in this. I wanted them to get out okay! For all the laughs, there was good emotion here too. I didn't even know this was based on a TV show. I have seen some clips of it and it seems great too! I think the directors eventually split over arguments which is why their films have declined, ending with the worst, "Scary Movie V". While there are still great comedies, we'll never be restored to this level of quality in spoofs right here. May this film and its spirit live on forever! ****