grenmonkey What's not to love in a movie that pokes fun of action movies of the 80's and early 90's, and even does it pretty well? I've watched my share of Lethal Weapon, Dirty Harry, Die Hard etc. and loved them all, so making fun of them hits the jackpot for me.Great cast: Emilio Estevez is BRILLIANT as the cool and distant, but sad anti-hero, Samuel L. Jackson as his partner, who's "getting too old for this ---", William Shatner as the evil general and so on. Even Bruce Willis does a short visit on the screen!What I liked the most about this film is that it manages to keep it's focus the whole time; it would have been easy just to use all the sex jokes around like they do with the latest movies of spoof genre, but they don't over-do it here. There's plenty of solid spoofs in the film that stay well above the waist; there's action, bad dialog, overacting and more to share! One of the finest of it's genre! 3/4

gcd70 It seems to be silly season on send-up and farce at the moment as National Lampoon present us with yet another satire. This time "Lethal Weapon" is the target, although other films (such as "Basic Instinct" and "Die Hard") are also in the firing line.Emelio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson and the supporting cast are not much more than average, and humour is achieved a lot less than stupidity. Look for cameo's from Charlie Sheen, Bruce Willis and Whoopi Goldberg among others.A very short film which falls well below the consistent hilarity it needed.Saturday, April 3, 1993 - Video

kosmasp I'm not talking only about the IMDb score ... It's generally not given the credit it deserves. This movie is really funny. Plus it has all those great actors ...Samuell L. Jackson, Tim Curry, Emilio Estevez and so forth. There are even brief cameos (the most notorious is Bruce Willis, but I won't spoil it for you).This movie spoofs and parodies everything from movies to television and it is right on target! Although the title refers to Lethal Weapon, it is not only a genre spoof, but it helps to have a guiding storyline.Every (Movie/TV)cliche is taken "care" of in this movie, so it is likely that you will find something new to laugh at every time you watch it. It is just not possible to catch everything the first time around. Especially, when you laugh half the time and miss some lines of dialogue!

merklekranz Make no mistake, this is far from even mediocre "National Lampoon" material. I mean the "beaver shot" might be the cream of the crappy jokes. Not funny. Not interesting. Even the numerous cameos are almost all wasted. Samuel L. Jackson in this movie makes "The Man" look like Oscar material. By comparison, "National Lampoon's Vacation" rates a 8.0, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" 7.0, "National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" 6.0., "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" 7.5. In short, "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" rates a 1.0 and is a failed attempt, which lacks interesting plot, interesting characters, and should be avoided unless you can take the punishment of a boring, unfunny, comedy. - MERK