I remember when this came out on video to rent at my local newsagents. I never got it out but I always wanted to. Now I've seen it, and it's quite enjoyable. When you've got the spoof master, Leslie Nielsen involved, not much can go wrong. It's not laugh-out-loud hilarious throughout, but there are more than a handful of gags that tickled me. It's nice to find a spoof that is actually good these days. And it's satirizing a huge, cultural phenomenon in The Fugitive, which makes a big difference compared to something like Super Fast! which parodies the Fast and Furious franchise; a series of movies that already knows it is ridiculous, so the jokes always feel empty and unfunny. But here it's just great to have Nielsen, with his superb deadpan physical comedy, and let him ridicule a particular genre, and the gags are in abundance. It's back to a time when you could actually laugh at stuff without everyone getting "offended". If this was made these days it would be rubbish. Everyone is too afraid to actually poke fun at things unless it's white history. That's a safe bet, which is one of the major reasons that spoof films are dead. Not that Wrongfully Accused has tons of racial or close-to-the-line jokes, but the whole endeavor oozes a relaxed 'anything goes' vibe, and it's noticeably refreshing.

One thing I never understood was why it was called Wrongfully Accused and not just Wrongly Accused. I always assumed it was part of the spoofing to have a needlessly long title. I still don't really know.