![]() ![]() Much more fun that Top Gun and consistently funny with regular laugh-out-loud moments this is a great spoof that is only just short of the greats like Airplane and Naked Gun. Overall, as with all these things you need to be in the mood but the strength of the material and the high hit ratio makes it easy to enjoy this film. Minor roles for Swanson, Stiles, Dunn and others are also good value for differing reasons and there are a few good cameos in there as well. Golino is a bit dry in her delivery and doesn't help her already weak part in the film. The rest of the cast is made up of very familiar faces who all seem in tune with the material provided Elwes is fun Cryer and O'Leary embrace their one-note characters. He is supported well by Sheen who proves really able in sending himself up and he has done well in other spoofs since then. Although not the star of the film, every scene he is in is stolen by Lloyd Bridges so great in Airplane, he gets the best lines here and his character is hilarious. And that is why the cast here should be largely praised for their straight delivery that serves to make the material even better. The cast is often important in this type of thing and those who have suffered the Wayans brothers mugging in their 'spoofs' will know exactly what I mean people like Leslie Nielsen make it look easy but it really isn't. Some individual lines aren't as sharp as others but generally the film has enough great dialogue and funny movie spoofs (including quite a few Tom Cruise movies) to be consistently funny even after repeat viewings. Just like Top Gun the romance aspect isn't as funny as the other bits but even then it is still good. A fine example of this is the dialogue given to Admiral Benson such as 'they ran out of material before they got to the knee so don't give me any sh*t'! This continues throughout the film and it rarely misses. Hot Shots succeeds in this area by managing to make such fun out of serious films that it is hard not to laugh in fact I watched Top Gun recently and found it impossible not to laugh as I remembered Hot Shots! Of course it is not just the fact that it spoofs movies but also that the dialogue is really, really funny totally off the wall and takes you by surprise at times. The spoof genre is one that appears easy to do but things like Scary Movie, Spaceballs and others all show that it is not as easy as it appears it is not enough to simply ape films unless it is done cleverly and funnily as well. Sheen, who portrays a spoof of John Rambo, went through a tough weight lifting /training program to gain the physique needed to play the role of an action hero. ![]() However with a difficult love interest and his old fears resurfacing, can Topper hold it together? Can the mission succeed? Can Admiral Benson get it together? Only time, will tell. It stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna (parodying his Colonel role in the Rambo franchise ), Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva. However when Lt Commander Block comes to him with an offer of a second chance, to take part in secret mission Sleepy Weasel, Topper takes it up and signs up for training and briefing with the other pilots. And, unlike many films, gets better with repeated viewing.Haunted by feelings of guilt over the actions of his father Buzz and having been kicked out of the navy, Topper Harley has withdrawn from the navy to a life of solitude, quiet contemplation and helium. ![]() Not as good as HOT HOTS or the AIRPLANE movies, it is still well worth seeing. Late in the film, the action really heats up when the President (played wonderfully once again by Lloyd Bridges) has a final showdown with Hussein.and the film degenerates into the weirdest takeoff on TERMINATOR II that you can imagine! Overall, the plot is mostly stupid and irrelevant-which is exactly what you'd expect from such a film! This is because the plot is only an excuse for stringing together many jokes and while some of the great intellectuals out there may hate this sort of film, you can't deny that it makes you laugh.unless you LIKE Saddam Hussein! The film misses about as often as it hits, but still with so many jokes this is still a crowd pleaser. The major difference in this film is the inclusion of a new major character, Saddam Hussein! He is ridiculed repeatedly and comes off as an effeminate oaf. Some of the parodied films include LADY AND THE TRAMP, CASABLANCA and NO WAY OUT. Here in PART DEUX, the story is essentially RAMBO II along with many other movie references as well. In HOT SHOTS, the film is basically a take off on TOP GUN-with many other movie references thrown in as well. Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. That's because even more than the original, the jokes come so rapid fire that if one falls flat (as many do), there is no doubt a good laugh coming only moments later. Part Deux 1993 Directed by Jim Abrahams Synopsis Just deux it. However, this is not to say this sequel is bad-it still maintains an excellent pace and will make you laugh. The original HOT SHOTS was a fabulous film and was more polished and fresh than this remake. ![]()
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