Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and the members of his Police Squad! are working in Washington and soon finds himself embroiled in another case. And encountering Jane (Priscilla Presley), who backed out of their relationship after the end of the first movie.

Once again, Jane is involved with the baddies. This time around, it’s Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet). He and some of his cohorts are running a political campaign to make sure that the nation continues to use the planet’s dwindling resources instead of ecological ones like solar energy.

His plan includes hiring a double for Dr. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths) and having him endorse coal and natural gas instead of better options.

Frank gets tangled up in things, and makes sure that the laughs come fast and furious. And happily, most of the gags still work incredibly well. There are great bits of dialogue, sight gags, and more. It works incredibly well, and Nielsen is just absolutely spot on in this role. He plays it as straight as he can, and because of that it makes the laughs so much more funnier.

Some of the gags are a little dated, the Ghost one works for the time, but there’s an E.T. reference that is a decade too late, no matter how iconic the image is.

There’s some great work here, but watching it now, you can definitely see budget restrictions everywhere. It’s not quite television level budget but it’s definitely not as big budget as Paramount could have done.

I like the chemistry between Nielsen and Presley. They’re really fun to watch together.

Sure, the film has a pall over it because of O.J. Simpson, but overall, everything is pretty enjoyable about it. Not everything works all the time, but more often than not, this entry remains brilliantly entertaining.

Silly, sure. But very funny. And as an aside, I love that Anthony James shows up this one!

As much as I loved Nielsen in Forbidden Planet, I loved this phase of his career. He just had such a great comedic ability, and Zucker and his fellow writers, David Zucker and Jim Abrahams know how to set up a joke. They have a great history of it, and this one is on par with what they had done before. It’s a little sad that the three of them didn’t work on the third film together.

But that one is the next one on my list, so we’ll see if it measures up to the first two films or not. Either way at least Frank Drebin will be back for one more go around.