‘The Naked Gun’ review: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson comedy is the biggest surprise of the year

Nobody in their right mind would reboot “The Naked Gun.”

Crime procedural spoofs were played out long ago.

Leslie Nielsen, the original’s iconic and seemingly irreplaceable star, died in 2010. 

And lest we forget, his right-hand man for the “Police Squad” trilogy was a pre-murder-trial O.J. Simpson.

That’s why the new “Naked Gun,” starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, is the biggest surprise of the year. Someway, somehow, it’s the funniest movie to hit theaters in a long time.

We’re talking gasping-for-air, “Get my inhaler!” hilarious. In the spirit of the 1988 classic, director Akiva Schaffer’s movie carpet-bombs us with nonstop jokes — from stupid to clever to utterly deranged. They never, ever let up.