July 30, 2025 • 6 mins
"Is The Naked Gun reboot really the triumphant return of a comedy style on the verge of extinction?"That’s the question that kicks off this laugh-loaded episode of The Ben and Skin Show on 97.1 The Eagle, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into the wild world of movies, nostalgia, and the unexpected cultural dominance of Adam Sandler. The Naked Gun Reboot Gets Serious Praise: With a Rotten Tomatoes score starting at 100% and settling at a still-impressive 92%, critics are calling it a “triumphant return” to rapid-fire gag comedy. The crew breaks down why this style—pun-heavy, sight-gag-packed, and relentlessly silly—is exactly what we need right now. Plus, Happy Gilmore 2 Breaks Netflix Records With over 46 million views in just three days.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sticky, The Giant, Tical, the Movie, the Movies.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So we're discussing The Naked Gun, which drops Friday and
some theaters Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The big premiere for this was Monday night.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
So after thirty reviews that were you know, found on
Rotten Tomatoes, actual critic reviews, it had a one hundred rating.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now more have come in because it's you know, it
is two nights ago. Uh so they're up to about
eighty eight reviews that they've taken from critics because there
is no audience review yet, and it's down to ninety
two percent.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Still good.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Get some fart sniffers had to get in there and
write bad reviews, but it sounds pretty good. But there's
a line in one of them that just I saw
that and I just wrote it down, like we have
to talk about this tomorrow. And uh it says The
Naked Gun is a triumphant return to a kind of
comedy that's on the verge of extinction. Yes, and it's
eighty five minutes long, and all of these reviews are like,
(01:02):
it's like multiple laughs a minute. It never stops, just
like I assume those movies, yeah were it's just bam,
bam bam ba, which probably a little exhausting, but it's
not exhausting like Happy gim War two got exhausting.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
For me as it approached hour two.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's you know what it is? They like that style
of comedy. It's a non stop collection of gags. That's
what it is. It's gag after gag after gag. There's
no real, you know, necessary order to anything. It's just
sight gag pun, site gag pun, and it just piles
and piles and piles up.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Today's You were used to a big collection of gags.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
That's what he was known for. He used to call
his his dorm room the gag order.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
That was it. That was an exclusive club. We're in.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So should I buy tickets for the four of us
to go watch this movie tomorre night?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No to night.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm staying in and staying in and watching Happy Gilmore too.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
What about a day time let's go before the show?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh I don't mind that. Yeah, I don't know if
that's happening till Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Maybe didn't mind a brunch and the naked gun? Yeah? Brunch? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay. Happy Gilmore two over at Netflix.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Did very good. They're saying that Netflix is reporting this
because they report their own numbers, But forty six point
seven million views in its first three days, which would
be a ton of movie in the box office. I
would imagine if it was in actual theaters. That's the
biggest opening ever for an Adam Sandler Netflix film.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, the Netflix film in front of It.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The biggest US opening weekend for any Netflix film ever.
And uh, yeah, it's in the top ten and maybe
number one and number two on Netflix all weekend was
Happy Gilmore two and number two was Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Does it happen to list any others that have been
among the highest rated they've ever had. I'm just wondering
what it even compares.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know, that's a good question, because what else would
have been?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Uh the movie they did with Julie Roberts and Ethan
Hawk a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Probably, Yeah, it's called Leave the World.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Behind, look Up, Don't Look Up or whatever I did great.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I don't know how I don't find me.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Man, But well I would just say that, Man, it
was all anyone's been talking about anywhere and everywhere you went,
especially going into that weekend, like it was everywhere every
one you ran into is like have you seen it yet?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
This is I told skin you were gone.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Was telling Ben in Christina that I went to get
a snoke on the other day and this place, but
there was like three families of the kids and they
were all talking about Adam Sandler really because he's the
he's the every man. Somehow, somehow he turned into that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So I asked my twenty year old daughter and her
boyfriend what they knew about Adam Sandler. She did not
know him by name, but her boyfriend knew all about him.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Hell yeah, that's so.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Weird to They just got a good one. If you
say Adam stand there and they're like who, Like, oh what,
they're just different, different generation say and the other thing.
I think I told you guys this. They fired up
Breaking Bad last night. They were on. I walked into
the kitchen and they were watching the first episode on
their phone where he's like freaking out at the very beginning.
(04:23):
I was like, what are you guys doing over here?
Are you watching Breaking Bad? They're like, yeah, we it
just came up on our Netflix order. We'd heard about it,
so we figured we'd start watching. It. Was like for them, man,
you guys are in for a wild ride.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, you said they know nothing about the series, right.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Her boyfriend goes, I think he didn't he cook meth
or something. Okay, they're like, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Tell him to keep grinding on it because season one
does start to get a little sleepy in episode three
and four and five. So make sure they cruise on
ahead and get the season two and season one ends
well and all that, but just make sure they stay
on that's your assignment.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Hey, have to stay on it. Hey, guys, Uncle Kat's
is to just get after it. Just keep going, man,
you can do this Breaking Bad journey. It's crazy, becud.
You say, your other kid is watching How I'm at
your Mother? Your kids discovered two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's pretty great.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It was a good time, is that when Breaking Bad started?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, get them watching Community and Parks and rec next
and we'll be in business. They're also making a movie
called Fokker in Law. Yes, and uh, what's your name?
Is going to be awesome. He's hilarious. Yes, I thought
that's going to be good.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So is it now? The stillers have kids? Like, is
that what the deal is? Or yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Because they did meet the parents then it went to
Meet the Fokkers. Then they did Little Fokkers and all
these movies did great in the theater, like tons of
money little Fockers. So it's been fifteen years since they've
done any of these Fokker films, and now they're going
to do.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Fokker in Law.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
All right, there you have it. There's all the movie
news you could use. Coming up next, we got wildlife news.
The classic battle Toddler versus Cobra. We have that discussion next.
The Sticky, The Giant, Tical, the Movie, the Movies.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So we're discussing The Naked Gun, which drops Friday and
some theaters Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The big premiere for this was Monday night.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
So after thirty reviews that were you know, found on
Rotten Tomatoes, actual critic reviews, it had a one hundred rating.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now more have come in because it's you know, it
is two nights ago. Uh so they're up to about
eighty eight reviews that they've taken from critics because there
is no audience review yet, and it's down to ninety
two percent.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Still good.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Get some fart sniffers had to get in there and
write bad reviews, but it sounds pretty good. But there's
a line in one of them that just I saw
that and I just wrote it down, like we have
to talk about this tomorrow. And uh it says The
Naked Gun is a triumphant return to a kind of
comedy that's on the verge of extinction. Yes, and it's
eighty five minutes long, and all of these reviews are like,
(01:02):
it's like multiple laughs a minute. It never stops, just
like I assume those movies, yeah were it's just bam,
bam bam ba, which probably a little exhausting, but it's
not exhausting like Happy gim War two got exhausting.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
For me as it approached hour two.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's you know what it is? They like that style
of comedy. It's a non stop collection of gags. That's
what it is. It's gag after gag after gag. There's
no real, you know, necessary order to anything. It's just
sight gag pun, site gag pun, and it just piles
and piles and piles up.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Today's You were used to a big collection of gags.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
That's what he was known for. He used to call
his his dorm room the gag order.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
That was it. That was an exclusive club. We're in.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So should I buy tickets for the four of us
to go watch this movie tomorre night?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No to night.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm staying in and staying in and watching Happy Gilmore too.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
What about a day time let's go before the show?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh I don't mind that. Yeah, I don't know if
that's happening till Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Maybe didn't mind a brunch and the naked gun? Yeah? Brunch? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay. Happy Gilmore two over at Netflix.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Did very good. They're saying that Netflix is reporting this
because they report their own numbers, But forty six point
seven million views in its first three days, which would
be a ton of movie in the box office. I
would imagine if it was in actual theaters. That's the
biggest opening ever for an Adam Sandler Netflix film.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, the Netflix film in front of It.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The biggest US opening weekend for any Netflix film ever.
And uh, yeah, it's in the top ten and maybe
number one and number two on Netflix all weekend was
Happy Gilmore two and number two was Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Does it happen to list any others that have been
among the highest rated they've ever had. I'm just wondering
what it even compares.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know, that's a good question, because what else would
have been?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Uh the movie they did with Julie Roberts and Ethan
Hawk a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Probably, Yeah, it's called Leave the World.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Behind, look Up, Don't Look Up or whatever I did great.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I don't know how I don't find me.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Man, But well I would just say that, Man, it
was all anyone's been talking about anywhere and everywhere you went,
especially going into that weekend, like it was everywhere every
one you ran into is like have you seen it yet?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
This is I told skin you were gone.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Was telling Ben in Christina that I went to get
a snoke on the other day and this place, but
there was like three families of the kids and they
were all talking about Adam Sandler really because he's the
he's the every man. Somehow, somehow he turned into that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So I asked my twenty year old daughter and her
boyfriend what they knew about Adam Sandler. She did not
know him by name, but her boyfriend knew all about him.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Hell yeah, that's so.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Weird to They just got a good one. If you
say Adam stand there and they're like who, Like, oh what,
they're just different, different generation say and the other thing.
I think I told you guys this. They fired up
Breaking Bad last night. They were on. I walked into
the kitchen and they were watching the first episode on
their phone where he's like freaking out at the very beginning.
(04:23):
I was like, what are you guys doing over here?
Are you watching Breaking Bad? They're like, yeah, we it
just came up on our Netflix order. We'd heard about it,
so we figured we'd start watching. It. Was like for them, man,
you guys are in for a wild ride.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, you said they know nothing about the series, right.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Her boyfriend goes, I think he didn't he cook meth
or something. Okay, they're like, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Tell him to keep grinding on it because season one
does start to get a little sleepy in episode three
and four and five. So make sure they cruise on
ahead and get the season two and season one ends
well and all that, but just make sure they stay
on that's your assignment.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Hey, have to stay on it. Hey, guys, Uncle Kat's
is to just get after it. Just keep going, man,
you can do this Breaking Bad journey. It's crazy, becud.
You say, your other kid is watching How I'm at
your Mother? Your kids discovered two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's pretty great.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It was a good time, is that when Breaking Bad started?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, get them watching Community and Parks and rec next
and we'll be in business. They're also making a movie
called Fokker in Law. Yes, and uh, what's your name?
Is going to be awesome. He's hilarious. Yes, I thought
that's going to be good.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So is it now? The stillers have kids? Like, is
that what the deal is? Or yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Because they did meet the parents then it went to
Meet the Fokkers. Then they did Little Fokkers and all
these movies did great in the theater, like tons of
money little Fockers. So it's been fifteen years since they've
done any of these Fokker films, and now they're going
to do.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Fokker in Law.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
All right, there you have it. There's all the movie
news you could use. Coming up next, we got wildlife news.
The classic battle Toddler versus Cobra. We have that discussion next.
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