“The Naked Gun” (** out of four) was a half-cocked remake of the 1988 comedy classic about the son (Liam Neeson) of Frank Drebbin who is just as bumbling as his dad as he investigates a ruthless businessman (Danny Huston) and falls in comic love with a femme fatale (Pamela Anderson). Opens with a very funny bank robbery scene and has some solid laughs in following half-hour but then fizzles out and goes flat and never recovers and is nowhere near as uproarious as the original (or any of its sequels). Neeson is game in one of his first comedy roles but can’t overcome the overall weak material.