David Zucker, the director and co-writer of the 1988 spoof comedy “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!,” has a lot of gripes with the new reboot — from the casting of Liam Neeson as Lt.

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Liam Neeson almost works as a Drebin for a new, coarser, meaner age, and he has no problem suggesting a surly, disgruntled son of the cop immortalized by Leslie Nielsen in the short-lived 1982 TV series “Police Squad!