Loaded Weapon 1

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (also known simply as  Loaded Weapon 1) is a 1993 American satirical buddy cop comedy film directed by Gene Quintano, and written by Quintano and Don Holley based on a story by Holley and Tori Tellem. The film, starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Kathy Ireland, Frank McRae, Tim Curry and William Shatner, was released on February 5, 1993.

The film mainly spoofs the first three Lethal Weapon films, as well as other films, including Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, The Silence of the Lambs, Wayne's World, 48 Hrs. and TV series such as CHiPs.

Plot
In Los Angeles, Detective Billie York is murdered by a man dressed as a Wilderness Girls because she possesses a microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into cookies. Her former partner, Wes Luger, takes the case in an attempt to avenge her death. As part of the terms for letting Luger take the case, psychotic burned-out narcotics agent Jack Colt is assigned to the case with Luger. Under the advice of their captain, they meet Dr. Harold Leacher, who informs Jack that the case has something to do with General Mortars, under whom Jack had worked during his days in Vietnam. Following Leacher's advice, they pursue the villains; however, before the villains are apprehended, Luger must journey into his past to realize the right thing to do.

In the end, the pair find themselves up against a complicated plot involving corrupt cops, federal agents, politicians and beauty queens. Not knowing who to trust, it's time for the pair to do what they do best - and that involves guns, explosions, and lots and lots of destruction.

Box office
Loaded Weapon 1 opened No. 1 at the box office and grossed almost $28 million domestically in total.

Critical reception
The film received a negative reception. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times said the film's main failure was that the Lethal Weapon movies already contained sly spoofs of the police film genre: "The send-up doesn't feel much different than the real thing." Loaded Weapon 1 earned 18% positive reviews on the film-critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 28 reviews.