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Loaded Weapon 1

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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (also known as Loaded Weapon 1) is a 1993 comedy film, directed by Gene Quintano and starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson and William Shatner.

The film mainly spoofed the plot of Lethal Weapon 2 but also referred to movies such as Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo and 48 Hrs.. One scene parodied Clarice Starling's first meeting with Dr. Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs.

Plot summary

Los Angeles detective Billie York (Whoopi Goldberg, uncredited) is murdered by Mr. Jigsaw (dressed as a wilderness girl) because she possesses a microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into wilderness girls cookies and she won't hand it over to the ones that seek it. Detective Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the case in an attempt to avenge the death of his former partner. As part of the terms for letting Luger taking the case, psychotic burned-out narcotic agent Jack Colt (Emilio Estevez) is assigned to the case with Luger. They pursue the villains Lethal Weapon style. Before the villains are apprehended however, Luger must journey into his past to realize the right thing to do. In the end, the Cookie Factory is destroyed in an explosion due to a cigarette and a gasoline spill.

Taglines

  • Oh my God! They have guns!
  • Don't Shoot, You'll Spoil The Sequel!
  • See it before they make the sequel.
  • We'd like to have been nominated for 9 ACADEMY AWARDS.
  • Oh my God! They're on video!
  • Rent it before someone else does.

Main cast

Celebrity cameos

Trivia

  • Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox appear in their CHiPs roles during a shootout scene. Yet in the entire six-year run of CHiPs, they never once drew their weapons.
  • When the German soldiers talk to each other, a subtitle is "Relax, only a psychotic, burned out cop would try to break in." But the actual line is, "Relax, only an ape would come in here."

  • Paul Gleason played FBI Agent Dwayne T. Robinson in this film, while in Die Hard he plays Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson and has a line "We're gonna need some more FBI guys I guess."

  • There was every intention to make a sequel to this movie. A deal had been set in place before this movie had gone into production and a poster had even been printed with the caption "Oh come ON, you knew it was coming!" However when the movie underperformed the deal was severed.

  • A closer look at the wall of torture and instruments of pain will show a mounted VHS case of the George Lucas-produced film Howard the Duck.

  • During the war of words between General Mortars and McCracken, McCracken tries to win the argument with the line "Life is very short and there is no time for fussin' and fightin', my friend!" a line from The Beatles song "We Can Work It Out".

  • Moonlighting's Bruce Willis and Allyce Beasley make a cameo in this film. Bruce as his character from the Die Hard movies John McClane and Allyce as Spinach Destiny.

  • Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards has a cameo roles in this film. In 2001, in the film set of Good Advice, they met each other and got married.

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