I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Loaded Weapon 1 is a mediocre movie with a poorly written storyline that manages to be enjoyable because of a talented comedic cast. It definitely has some very good moments, Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson have great chemistry and played off each other very well, they were the right choice to parody Mel Gobson and Danny Glover's role in the Lethal Weapon series. There are also fun cameos throughout and some worthwhile film references, such as a scene from Silence of the Lambs and Wayne's World. The biggest flaw is that it relies very heavily on having each scene as a set up for parodying the popular films of this decade, that it never really tries to be its own film, there is a story here but it tends to get lost far too often, and all the loose ends are quickly wrapped up in the last five minutes. All the references to other movies are, for the most part, quite lame, they don't necessarily serve as satire on them, but almost a shot for shot remake of certain scenes, and when the most memorable moments are the nod they make to Basic Instinct or Dirty Harry, it makes you wonder that maybe you should have just watched those movies instead. It has its moments and is worth the watch if you have nothing better to do and need to kill some time, but for the most part, Loaded Weapon 1 never tries to be its own movie and relies on others for laughs, I wouldn't highly recommend it. A cop duo must put a stop to a cocaine ring looking to spread across the nation. Best Performance: Samuel L. Jackson

"Naked Gun"-style parodies were everywhere in the early 90s, "Loaded Weapon 1" is just one of the many. It's not really the funniest of the batch either, but it does have some trademark moments that define why the whole genre was so popular for a month or so. It's a typical hit-or-miss kind of thing, some stuff makes you laugh and some stuff makes you wonder why you're not going outside. There's really only one element in this movie that's consistently funny and unsurprisingly, that's Samuel L. Jackson. The guy just gives any movie he's in a necessary dosage of class, even if it is a poor man's "Hot Shots!". There are also some fun cameos added, but not a lot is done with them. They just go for the "hey look it's Bruce Willis"-factor, which only works up to a certain level. "Loaded Weapon 1" is a fun 90s spoof (they're all fun), but nothing special.

This one had Samuel L. Jackson in the Murtaugh role played by Danny Glover in the original series and Estevez in the Riggs role played by Mel Gibson, both do a relatively good job in this parody of that famous series. At this point there had been, I believe, three Lethal Weapon movies so there was plenty of things to spoof in this film though they did occasionally go outside that series for jokes most notable being a spoof on "Silence of the Lambs" that was funnier than most of the spoof of that movie "Silence of the Hams". This one follows the basic story of the Lethal weapon series combining and spoofing elements of all three movies at the time and of course having many b-list stars making cameo appearances like the cops from the television series Chips, Whoopie Goldberg and the funniest to me being William Shatner in the villain role. This would be the only film in this particular set of spoofs, but they really covered a lot of the first three movies so they would have been stretching it to make a sequel, that and I a do believe this movie did not do all that well at the box office to warrant a sequel. Still, it was a funny little spoof, not being really special like say Airplane, Top Secret, or Naked Gun as those had stand alone plots, but it managed to amuse like say the Scary movies did.

Loaded Weapon 1 was really the original spoof movie before we got into movies like Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, etc. This is really a break out comedy performance for Emilio Estevez, who portrays a Mel Gibson sort of character in this spoof. Alongside him is Samuel L. Jackson, who is the equivalent to Danny Glover. All in all this film has a ton of celebrity cameos from Dennis Leary to Phil Hartman to even Corey Feldman. Also starring alongside as the main villains are Will Shatner and Tim Curry. The funniest character of the film is entirely Jon Lovitz. He was definitely a scene stealer in this one, even though the jokes seemed sort of unfunny. So check out this Lampoon flick. It may not be as good as Animal House and Vacation, but it's worth a try.