Starring: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Kathy Ireland, Frank McRae, Tim Curry, William Shatner, Jon Lovitz, F. Murray Abraham
Cameo appearances: James Doohan, Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Corey Feldman, Paul Gleason, Whoopi Goldberg*, Phil Hartman, Denis Leary, Richard Moll, Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen, J.T. Walsh, Bruce Willis*, Allyce Beasley, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Christopher Lambert*
Director: Gene Quintano
Available at Amazon.
* uncredited cameo
National Lampoon takes this opportunity to spoof Lethal Weapon 2, with references to Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, 48 Hrs., Wayne's World (headbanging in a car to "Bohemian Rhapsody") and The Silence of the Lambs worked into the script. A sequel was planned, but scrapped when this movie flopped at the box office.
A detective named Billie York (Goldberg, uncredited) is murdered by Mr. Jigsaw (Curry, dressed in drag slightly less outrageous than Rocky Horror) after refusing to turn over microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into wilderness girls cookies. Her former partner, Wes Luger (Jackson) takes the case to avenge his former partner, but has to take on a psychotic burned-out narcotic agent named Jack Colt (Estevez) as part of the terms.
I have to admit that I have a soft spot for movies like this, even if some of the jokes seemed forced.
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