Airplane! Hot Shots! Naked Gun... GHOST?!... Every ZAZ Movie RANKED!

Is Airplane! better than The Naked Gun? Is Hot Shots a better film than Part Deux? What is the best Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker movie ever made? And what the hell is GHOST doing on this list? We've ranked 21 films from the ZAZ comedy universe using a data-driven "Mega-Score" to give you the most objective Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker ranking on YouTube. From the rapid-fire absurdity of Airplane! and Top Secret! to the deadpan chaos of The Naked Gun and Hot Shots!, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker helped redefine screen comedy with a style built on visual gags, wordplay, background jokes, spoof and parody. But the ZAZ story didn't end when the trio went their separate ways. For this ranking, we're following Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker through their individual directing careers as well as the major movie franchises they helped create — from Hot Shots! and BASEketball to Ghost, Rat Race, Scary Movie and even the return to The Naked Gun in 2025 with Liam Neeson taking the lead from Leslie Nielsen. This is your definitive guide to the movies of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker — ranked from worst to best. And at the end of the video, see where ZAZ land on our master DIRECTOR LEAGUE TABLE alongside the work of their filmmaking peers. WATCH THE FULL DIRECTORS RANKED SERIES HERE - https://tinyurl.com/5duhb6mb 🎬 ALL 21 ZAZ MOVIES COVERED: ✔ Airplane! (1980) — The disaster-movie parody that became one of the most influential comedies ever made ✔ Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) — The disaster spoof heads into space as the Airplane! franchise continues without the original ZAZ directing team ✔ Top Secret! (1984) — Elvis movies, wartime espionage and surreal sight gags collide in one of ZAZ's most inventive comedies ✔ Ruthless People (1986) — Danny DeVito and Bette Midler headline a viciously funny kidnapping comedy ✔ The Naked Gun (1988) — Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin brings deadpan stupidity, visual gags and glorious comic chaos to the big screen ✔ Big Business (1988) — Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin play mismatched sets of twins in Jim Abrahams' identity-swapping comedy ✔ Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) — Jim Abrahams steps away from parody for an offbeat small-town comedy-drama starring Winona Ryder ✔ Ghost (1990) — Jerry Zucker swaps spoof comedy for romance, supernatural drama and one of the biggest films of the decade ✔ Hot Shots! (1991) — Jim Abrahams turns Top Gun and blockbuster action cinema into relentless parody ✔ The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) — Frank Drebin returns for another barrage of slapstick, wordplay and completely inappropriate police work ✔ Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) — Action sequels, Rambo and Saddam Hussein get the full ZAZ-style spoof treatment ✔ The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) — Frank Drebin's original big-screen trilogy ends with prisons, the Oscars and maximum Leslie Nielsen nonsense ✔ First Knight (1995) — Jerry Zucker tackles King Arthur, Camelot, romance and medieval adventure on an epic scale ✔ Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998) — Jim Abrahams takes aim at The Godfather, Casino and decades of gangster movies ✔ BASEketball (1998) — David Zucker directs Trey Parker and Matt Stone in a gloriously stupid collision of sport, friendship and invented athletic competition ✔ Rat Race (2001) — Jerry Zucker assembles an enormous comedy cast for a frantic cross-country race for $2 million ✔ Scary Movie 3 (2003) — David Zucker brings his spoof sensibilities to horror hits including The Ring and Signs ✔ My Boss's Daughter (2003) — Ashton Kutcher attempts to impress his boss and instead finds himself trapped in an increasingly chaotic night from hell ✔ Scary Movie 4 (2006) — Horror, science fiction and blockbuster cinema collide in another barrage of parody ✔ An American Carol (2008) — David Zucker applies his trademark parody style to political satire ✔ The Naked Gun (2025) — A new generation takes up the badge as the legendary spoof franchise returns 📊 HOW THE RANKING WORKS We converted scores from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes critics, Rotten Tomatoes audience score, and Letterboxd onto a unified 100-point scale and calculated a "Mega-Score" for each film. The result: a ranking that balances critical acclaim, audience reception, and the opinions of film fans worldwide. 00:00 — Intro and how the ranking works 00:52 — The Top 21 ZAZ Movies Ranked 10:10 — The Top 15 ZAZ Movies Ranked 16:45 — The Top 10 ZAZ Movies Ranked 28:55 — The Top 5 ZAZ Movies 39:45 — League Table Update 👍 If you enjoy film rankings, movie reviews, director retrospectives, comedy movies, spoof films, parody, cult classics and deep-dive film analysis, please LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE to WN Movie Talk — it helps us keep making content like this. LISTEN TO THE WN MOVIE TALK PODCAST https://shows.acast.com/wnmovietalkpo... #ZAZ #ZuckerAbrahamsZucker #Airplane #TheNakedGun #TopSecret #HotShots #LeslieNielsen #DavidZucker #JerryZucker #JimAbrahams #ComedyMovies #MovieRanking #WNMovieTalk