Frank Drebin Jr. follows in his old man’s footsteps in the full trailer for the upcoming Naked Gun reboot which dropped Monday.

Liam Neeson as Junior plays it deadly straight whether he’s beating a man with his own arms, gunning his way into a cafe restroom, or reading a suspect’s rap sheet and noting he “served 20 years for man’s laughter”

“Must’ve been quite the joke,” Drebin Jr. quips after the accused, played by Busta Rhymes, corrects him.

The trailer also shows that Pam Anderson, who plays femme fatale Beth in the trailer, can go toe-to-toe with Neeson as she gamely takes a chair – out of Drebin’s office – when he offers her a seat. Beth reveals to Drebin that her brother may have been murdered, fueling the plot in part.

Akiva Schaffer is directing this sequel to the Leslie Nielsen-led comedy action movie series that began in 1988 with The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! That film was followed by two sequels.

Dan Gregor and Doug Mand wrote the script, and Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Runnels and CCH Pounder round out the cast.

The Naked Gun blasts its way into theaters on August 1st.