David Zucker, who helmed the first two Naked Gun films, wasnt the biggest fan of the reboot, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.

During a recent interview with Womans World, the filmmaker claimed the new film, The Naked Gun, tried to replicate the spoof comedy style developed by Zucker, his brother Jerry and their partner Jim Abrahams, but totally missed.

My brother, Jerry, and our partner, Jim Abrahams, started doing spoof comedies 50 years ago, and we originated our own style and we did that so well that it looks easy, evidently, Zucker explained. People started copying it, like Seth MacFarlane for the newNaked Gun. He totally missed it. The Naked Gun was directed by Akiva Schaffer, but MacFarlane served as a producer. The reboot follows Neesons Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Lt. Frank Drebin (played by the late Leslie Nielsen in the original trilogy), who follows in his fathers footsteps and works as a detective to solve a murder case and save his police department from closure.

They tried to replace Leslie Nielsen in the newNaked Gun, and you cant replace him. No one else can do that, Zucker added.

The Scary Movie 3 director also criticized the production budget for the new Naked Gun installment, which cost approximately$42 million to make. While the original 1988 film reportedly had a budget of $15 million, that would equate to roughly $41 million today, once adjusted for inflation.

You shouldnt spend too much money on comedies, and one of our rules is about technical pizzazz, Zucker said. Big budgets and comedy are opposites, and in the newNaked Gun, you could see that they spent a lot of money on scenes full of technical pizzazz while trying to copy our style.

He added, Everybodys in it for the money now, and that feels like the only reason why they wanted to do a newNaked Gun.

Zucker directed 1988s The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! and 1991s The Naked Gun 2: The Smell of Fear, while Peter Segal helmed 1994s Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.

The filmmaker previously told The Hollywood Reporter that he had no plans to watch the reboot but saw the films positive reception as a sign theres a strong market for comedy in movie theaters, and spoof in particular.

He also noted that he wished Schaffer well, but declined an invitation from the director to see an early cut of it. I told him theres nothing I could do to help because it really isnt what I would have done, Zucker admitted. Thats not to say that he didnt actually end up doing a good movie. But I dont think I could help with that. He had previously been outspoken about feeling burned that he and other team members of the original film were not asked to be involved with the reboot.