Cops and robbers take top billing

LIAM Neeson steps into deadpan shoes as Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr in a reboot of police procedural spoof The Naked Gun (15), out today at the Regal Picturehouse in Henley.

As the son of Lt Frank Drebin, played by the late Leslie Nielsen in the Eighties television series Police Squad! and the original Naked Gun films that followed.

Drebin Jr has to follow in his father’s footsteps to save the world.

Together with Captain Ed Hocken Jr (Paul Walter Hauser), he has to investigate when Beth Davenport (Pamela Anderson) finds her brother has been murdered.

Directed by Akiva Schaffer and produced by Seth MacFarlane, the film features plenty of slapstick, innuendo, visual gags and in-jokes in homage to the works of David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.

Also starring Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Moses Jones and Busta Rhymes, the film has a running time of one hour and 25 minutes.

Mr Wolf (Sam Rockwell) and his team of villains, Mr Snake (Marc Maron), Mr Shark (Craig Robinson), Mr Piranha (Anthony Ramos) and Ms Tarantula (Awkwafina), have tried to turn over a new leaf in The Bad Guys 2 (PG), the sequel to 2022’s The Bad Guys, but things are not going smoothly.

When they meet the Bad Girls, they are drawn into doing just one more heist.

Based on the books by Aaron Blabey and directed by Pierre Perifel with JP Sans, the cast also includes Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, Alex Borstein and Lilly Singh. The film has a running time of one hour, 44 minutes.

Continuing are The Fantastic Four: First Steps (12A) and F1 the Movie (12A).