Back in the 80's and 90's spoofs were good. Airplane, the Naked Guns, the various Lampoons were all cool. Now the spoofs are all vulgar and tasteless.

Loaded Weapon 1's primary material is Lethal Weapon. The two stars: Colt (Estevez) and Luger (Jackson) are supposed to be Riggs and Murtaugh. But like most spoofs they interwove other cop classics from the time: Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs.

The jokes are silly, some of them are run ons but that's what you expect. If we could only return to the era of good satires.

I laughed a lot when watching this movie, because it was so silly. I loved the cameos from Whoopi Goldberg and Denis Leary. I loved the silliness of the jokes. I loved the daftness of the story. This movie deserves to be highly rated as the whole point of a spoof is to laugh at the badness of it all, as most of it was just hilarious, and I mean that. I loved the references to other movies, without it becoming too offensive. The soundtrack was hip and cool, and the jokes on the whole worked. The performances were laugh out loud funny, especially from Estevez and Jackson, who couldn't be more different. (a bit like Rush Hour) There is also solid support from Jon Lovitz, Kathy Ireland, Tim Curry(with an accent that was a bit difficult to understand at times) and William Shatner. It did get a bit too silly at times, and the script suffered(though I loved the "no waking up without my penis is my worst nightmare" exchange between Jack and Jigsaw) but not that it was a huge disaster. Well worth watching if you're in a bad mood, or looking for fun! 8/10 Bethany Cox

Now this is more like it for a NATIONAL LAMPOON film: LOADED WEAPON 1 is a great and affectionate spoof of the movies that takes the LETHAL WEAPON franchise as its main inspiration. It has plenty in common with Leslie Nielsen's NAKED GUN films, with a scattershot approach providing plenty of laughs, a lot of them obvious, a lot of them surreal, many of them relying on cameo appearances for effect.

Emilio Estevez plays a maverick cop, clearly modelled on Mel Gibson's Riggs, while Samuel L. Jackson gives a stand-out performance as a retiring cop modelled on Danny Glover's Murtaugh. They're involved in a storyline involving over-the-top cocaine smugglers Tim Curry and William Shatner, and there are hundreds of gags packed into a slender running time. If you're a fan of HOT SHOTS et al then this is the film for you.

And I'm still getting over those endless cameos. Bruce Willis is the best and most unexpected one, but watch out for the likes of Corey Feldman, Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Sheen, Erik Estrada, Paul Gleason, and many, many others making unexpected and welcome appearances. This is probably the best film for cameos that I can think of.