Loaded Weapon 1
| Loaded Weapon 1 | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover for Loaded Weapon 1. | |
| Directed by | Gene Quintano |
| Written by | Gene Quintano Don Holley Tori Tellem] |
| Produced by | Suzanne Todd David Willis (film producer) |
| Starring | Emilio Estevez Samuel L. Jackson Kathy Ireland Frank McRae Tim Curry William Shatner |
| Music by | Robert Folk |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release date | February 5, 1993 |
Running time | 84 min. |
| Language | English |
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, Lethal Weapon 2 and Lethal Weapon 3, 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. The final scene of the movie parodies Wayne's World, showing the characters headbanging in a car while listening to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
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.
Plot summary
In Los Angeles, Billie York (Whoopi Goldberg, uncredited) is murdered by Mr. Jigsaw (Tim Curry 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. Her former partner, Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson), takes the case in an attempt to avenge her death. As part of the terms for letting Luger taking the case, the psychotic burned-out narcotics agent, Jack Colt (Emilio Estevez), is assigned to the case with Luger. They pursue the villains, however, before the villains are apprehended, 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.
Main cast
- Emilio Estevez - Sgt. Jack Colt
- Samuel L. Jackson - Sgt. Wes Luger
- Jon Lovitz - Rick Becker
- Tim Curry - Mr. Jigsaw
- Kathy Ireland - Miss Destiny Demeanor
- Frank McRae - Captain Doyle
- William Shatner - General Curtis Mortars
- F. Murray Abraham - Dr. Harold Leacher
Celebrity cameos
- James Doohan - Scotty
- Erik Estrada - Officer Francis Poncherello
- Larry Wilcox - Officer Jon Baker
- Corey Feldman - Young Cop
- Paul Gleason - FBI Agent Dwayne T. Robinson
- Whoopi Goldberg (uncredited) - Sgt. Billy York
- Phil Hartman - Officer Davis
- Denis Leary - Mike McCracken
- Richard Moll - Prison Attendant
- Denise Richards - Cindy #1
- Charlie Sheen - Valet
- J.T. Walsh - Desk Clerk
- Bruce Willis (uncredited) - John McClane
- Allyce Beasley - Spinach Destiny
- Dr. Joyce Brothers - Medical Examiner
- Christopher Lambert (uncredited) - Man with Car Phone
Cameo notes
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.
Paul Gleason played FBI Special 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."
Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards have cameo roles in this film. In 2001, in the film set of Good Advice, they met each other and got married.
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.
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.
Drawing from culture
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- 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".