Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Much like Hot Shots! one and deux, The film basically parodies Lethal Weapons one and two, and throws in spoofs of other successful movies during this era.The plot is about a microfilm that has instructions of how to hide drugs in innocent looking cookies, and two cops have to recover it.What is good about this movie, is that it was one of the last genuinely funny spoofs ever made, and after Part Deux and ££ and a third, they became obsolete.The film isn't really laugh out loud funny, and some of the jokes are more miss than hit, but it's wonderful to see so many good cameos put to even better use (the Bruce Willis one is priceless).The only bad thing about this film, is that it's dated, due to the nature of it's topics. Many now wouldn't get the Silence Of the Lambs, or Basic Instinct references, even though they are blatantly obvious.The reason why many wouldn't get them now, is because the scenes that are parodied here, were so overplayed in the early nineties, that they were almost begging to be spoofed.All in all, if you are a fan of the action genre, you will get something from this, even though it's pretty throwaway stuff.Maybe Last Action Hero would have been more successful if this had not been made.

OK, just to get this out of the way: I've always loved this movie. I actually saw it before I saw the "Lethal Weapon" series (Though I was familiar with them) and loved it even more once I had. The thing that makes this movie funny, even today, is that even though it has a lot of topical humor from the early 1990s it's mostly made up of self-sustaining jokes that last. Not everyone is going to know who Leona Helmsley is, but everyone is going to laugh at Tim Curry in a wig. And then there are the myriad of cameos by stars who know how play it straight but don't necessarily take it too seriously. From the delightful appearance of Samuel L. Jackson as Wes Luger to the walk- through of Emilio Estevez's brother and Cory Feldman it's a non-stop parade of talent that knew what kind of movie they were playing in. (Not to mention it almost brought a tear to my eye to see Phil Hartman doing what he does)Even if you're not a fan of the "Lethal Weapon" movies you're going to find this movie funny. It fires off about 30 jokes a minute, about 20 you're going to laugh at. If you are a fan of the "Lethal Weapon" you'll probably laugh at about 29.Watch it with friends, you won't regret it.

Make no mistake, this is far from even mediocre "National Lampoon" material. I mean the "beaver shot" might be the cream of the crappy jokes. Not funny. Not interesting. Even the numerous cameos are almost all wasted. Samuel L. Jackson in this movie makes "The Man" look like Oscar material. By comparison, "National Lampoon's Vacation" rates a 8.0, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" 7.0, "National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" 6.0., "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" 7.5. In short, "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" rates a 1.0 and is a failed attempt, which lacks interesting plot, interesting characters, and should be avoided unless you can take the punishment of a boring, unfunny, comedy. - MERK

first of all, ignore the fact that this film has "national lampoons" name on it. loaded weapon 1 is far better than all of the awful lampoons films.this is a spoof, through and through. the jokes are some of the most stupid i've ever seen, the acting seems to be quite deliberately bad (we all know that most of the principal players in this movie can act better), and even some big goofs and mistakes seem to have been left in. if you see these things and you think it's a bad movie because of them, you're missing the point. the film is intentionally bad, in the same way starship troopers was intentionally cheesy.so if you're in the mood for something that you don't have to take seriously (at all), this movie is just the thing. watch it once for all the obvious jokes, and then again to find all the jokes in the background (and there's loads of them).my favourite spoof of all time. 10/10