Hot Shots! Part Deux

What can I say about this movie? A comic moment at every turn, hilarious lines and a great spoof to live by. I, being a Ryan Stiles fan, couldn't stop laughing when I first saw this. His performance was top, and Charlie Sheen just brought it all together. My favourite moments included when Dexter (Rowan Atkinson) mentioned his shoelaces being tied together, and when the army wrote the sounds of the morse code (Dah di di dah dah di dah)! Couldn't stop laughing!!! The casting is great, with Lloyd Bridges as the President and Ryan Stiles as Rainbowitz, this is a great movie spoof! I recommend this movie for slapstick fans and people who just want a laugh, a lot of laughs!!

This is a sequel to ¨Hot shots¨ (1991) , Top Gun spoof , this ¨Hot Shots! Part Deux¨(1993) doesn't live up to the first , but it's not bad either ; it boasts a good cast , such as : Charlie Sheen , Valeria Golino , Lloyd Bridges , Richard Crenna , Rowan Atkinson , Miguel Ferrer , among others . Another outing from ¨Naked Gun¨team of the master movie parodists : Jim Abrahams , Jerry Zucker and Pat Proft . Wacky and surrealist comedy with uncountable gags and well starred by Charlie Sheen who gives a sympathetic acting as hunk ace Topper Harley who's assigned to rescue Colonel Denton : Richard Crenna . A classic of the spoof genre, it is a likably silly comedy from the writing-directing team that brought other big hits , and still one of the funniest movies ever made . From the makers of the original "Airplane!" (not the Wright brothers) . In a covert government mission to rescue hostages from Operation Desert Storm, a group of U. S. soldiers fail to assassinate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (Jerry Haleva) and are captured by Iraqi forces . Because the mission has failed twice before, the absent-minded former U. S. Navy Admiral Thomas "Tug" Benson (Lloyd Bridges), who was surprisingly elected President of the United States, suspects the commando is being sabotaged and decides to send retired Navy war hero Lieutenant Sean "Topper" Harley (Charlie Sheen) to intervene . Presidential Military Advisor Colonel Denton Walters (Richard Crenna) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sexy agent Michelle Rodham Huddleston (Brenda Bakke) locate pumped-out Topper in Thailand, fighting as a boxer and practicing Buddhism . He refuses to help rescue the imprisoned soldiers , still troubled by the abandonment of his lover , Ramada Rodham Hayman (Valeria Golino). Then love interest Ramada returns but this time she's competing with a beatiful agent . Just Deux it !. The mother of all sequels !. Grab your guns! It's Hot Shots Part Deux! The mother of all movies! . There's something funny in the air !. Unprecendented! Uncut! Under 10 dollar Movie? What movie?. Shhh! Don't tell anyone.

Nutty and absurd comedy with numberless gags by the makers of Airplane . This picture makes up for its flimsy plot with one gag after another . Written/directed by Jim Abrahams , Pat Proft and David Zucker (ZAZ) , they are American satirists and writers with successful works along and long time collaborators among them , they made their own comedy troupe , ¨Kentucky Fried theatre¨. Spoofs ¨Rambo¨ with a lot of verbal humor and similar gung-ho adventures , but doesn't forget other popular films including : ¨First Blood¨, ¨Rambo¨, ¨Rambo III¨,¨Apocalypse Now¨, ¨The Goldfather¨, ¨Sea Hunt¨, among others . This one remains commercially as one of their exceptional hit smashes with the exception for ¨Airport!¨ , ¨Top Secret¨and ¨Jerry Zucker's Ghost¨. In the film appears the habitual quirky and lunatic roles usually played by notorious actors , such as : Valeria Golino , Lloyd Bridges, Miguel Ferrer , Rowan Atkinson, David Wohl, Mitchell Ryan , and Richard Crenna spoofs his character in the Rambo films as Sheen's mentor and look for real-life dad Martin Sheen in a take-off of Apocalypse Now and Lloyd Bridges getting a chance to reprise his glory days of Sea Hunt .

The film was realized by the Kentucky group , the ironic humor is originated in the American surrealist comedy whose origin is developed since ¨Hellzapoppin¨ (by H. C. Potter) , Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields , and being based on the absurd , the lunatic and wacky happenings , and , of course , the extreme parody or spoof movie . The picture is naughty at times , but it's also intelligent and audacious . There's one comic gag each ten seconds . Rated ¨Parents Guide¨ for some profanity and sexually oriented sketches . An unsothisphicated but very amusing film that will appeal to absurd lovers and including several cinematic references . Rating : 6.5/10. Well worth watching . Great when you are in the mood for laughs that don't require thought . This is a wonderful timeless spoof that will appeal to wild and unruly humor fans . And don't miss the credits .

While the original will always be considered better, this film still held true to the Hot Shots mentality. While the whole concept may have been a little dragged out, at least they didn't try to make another movie to further destroy this franchise. Charlie Sheen was once again, Charlie Sheen. With yet another tongue-in-cheek performance, Sheen proves to us he is one of the most nonchalant comedy actor of our day. Plenty of funny things to talk about, but far too many to mention.

"Hot Shots! Part Deux" beats the odds to be pretty good, not just as spoofs go, but as spoof *sequels* go. Granted, it's not always very funny, but enough of the verbal and visual jokes work to make this solidly entertaining comedy fare, and a worthy sequel to the hilarious first movie. It goes about making fun of the corpse littered action escapism films of the 1980s, which of course were a genre just ripe for parody. Charlie Sheen returns as hero Topper Harley, now living in Thailand after getting his heart broken by Ramada (Valeria Golino). He's approached by the CIA to undertake a top secret mission in the Middle East where he must rescue the rescue team who went in to save the rescue team who tried to retrieve some hostages.

Also returning from the first film are Lloyd Bridges, who once again is an absolute riot; somehow, his idiotic character Thomas "Tug" Benson has become the President of the United States. Jerry Haleva makes an encore appearance as Saddam Hussein, and gets more to do this time, including a climactic duel with Benson. New characters include those played by lovely Brenda Bakke, Richard Crenna (who gets to poke fun at his own "Rambo" series role), Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, Mitch Ryan, Ryan Stiles, Gregory Sierra, Andreas Katsulas, and Clyde Kusatsu. So there's a lot of familiar faces here, including some other famous faces in gag cameos. (The best one is by Sheen's dad Martin.) One of the brightest jokes is the "bloodiest movie ever" one; among the movies and shows parodied are "Basic Instinct", "No Way Out", "Lady and the Tramp", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", and Bridges' own series 'Sea Hunt', but mostly co-writer and director Jim Abrahams, an old hand at this sort of thing, keeps his focus on skewering the mindless macho action flick.

Overall, this is a very enjoyable comedy, no matter if some of the humour is dated (such as referring to then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton). It manages to hold up pretty well on repeat viewings.

And war is indeed fantastic.

Eight out of 10.

OK, let's get this clear; Hot shots IS silly. Silly, simple, stupid and ABSOLUTELY pointless. But hey, it IS a slapstick comedy, and a ******* GREAT ONE! MUCH better than the first movie! In EVERY SECOND of the movie there is a gag, a joke, or someone or something that is so damn funny that I can't help myself from falling of the chair laughing like hell! I think I've seen this movie over 20 times, It's still the funniest movie ever for me. I guess when it comes to movies of this kind, I just want them to be as stupid, with as many jokes per minute, as possible. I think Charlie Sheen is perfect for this role, he does look serious, like some kind of a bad Rambo-wannabe, and a serious-looking person doing stupid things is always great. It's also great that Richard Crenna plays almost the same character as in Rambo 3, with many of his lines unchanged. If you've watched the Rambo-movies, (most important the third one), you'll get more of the gags and the dialogs, especially in the scenes from the Buddhist temple. Saddam Hussein is also excellent, he looks really like the real one! If you like stupid and crazy movies...WATCH THIS!