Amazon.com video review:
With the success of There's Something About Mary, the brothers
Farrelly would seem to have inherited the dumb-comedy crown from the
various talents who made Airplane! and its many descendants: Top
Secret!, The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!. For the most part,
that's true, but as Wrongfully Accused proves, there's a bit of life
in the old shtick. Pat Proft, a screenwriter on The Naked Gun series
and Hot Shots!, makes his directorial debut with this farce, which
stars--surprise, surprise--Leslie Nielsen in a parody of the feature
version of The Fugitive. More than that: Proft piles on joking
references to a host of other dramas, including Casablanca,
Mission: Impossible, and Braveheart. While the persistence of
these inter-movie gags can wear a viewer down a bit, the fact is some of
the silly stuff really does hit its target. If the progeny of
Airplane! were to end with this movie, it would be a worthy way to
say farewell to a once-good idea. The DVD includes trailers, a game, Dolby,
audiovisual production notes, cast interviews, biographies and
filmographies, English and French soundtracks, and English, French, and
Spanish subtitles. With Kelly LeBrock, Richard Crenna, Sandra Bernhard, and
Michael York. --Tom Keogh
