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. The same parody specialists behind the hit disaster-movie takeoff Airplane. Whereas Jerry Zucker ditched the LOLs for all the feels in 1990s blubfest Ghost brother David went back to the well too many times eventually directing Scary Movies 3. Territories Canada and Bermuda.

Playback Region 2. Its a similarly nonsensical satire of military-service-pilot dramas most obviously Top GunTwice-told plot concerns young Navy jet-fighter Topper Harley Charlie Sheen haunted by his own reckless ways and his pilot-fathers bad reputation. It is again a comedy or.

An amiable character dies and a funeral is held where people including his wife are crying. I am in the minority that liked it better than the prequel. Is an amazing rarity---a sequel thats actually superior to the first movie.

The film holds an 84 approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews. See other DVD options under Other Formats Versions. 1991 PG-13 1 h 24 m IMDb RATING 67 10 106K YOUR RATING POPULARITY 3370 160 Cast crew User reviews Trivia IMDbPro Play trailer 130 2 Videos 99 Photos Action Comedy A parody of Top Gun 1986 in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.

Later flew to box-office success with HOT SHOTS. Boston Globe Jay Carr. Hot Shots is rated PG-13 for comic violence a few profanities some vulgar gags and a comic sex scene though theres nothing here quite as raunchy as some of the Naked Gun or Airplane gags.

Jun 27 2021. Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force a renegade pilot Sheen finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral Bridges and a carefully-selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind. Part Deux PG-13 1993 Comedy 1h 29m 56 Tomatometer 32 Reviews 63 Audience Score 50000 Ratings What to know critics consensus Audiences who enjoyed the first Hot Shots.

Spoofs not only flyboy films in general but kids the pants off at least a half-dozen famous movies including the likes of GONE WITH THE WIND DANCES WITH WOLVES THE FABULOUS BAKER. A parody of Top Gun in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. The climactic fighter jet fight is somewhat intense.

Up to 24 cash back Hot Shots. Learn more about DVD region specifications here. The movie has more silly over the top and hilarious humor but the good kind.

PG-13 1991 Comedy 1h 25m 84 Tomatometer 25 Reviews 65 Audience Score 100000 Ratings What to know critics consensus Hot. There is a love scene in Hot Shots Part Deux in which the hero a dashing Navy commando played by Charlie Sheen is dining with a beautiful espionage expert played by Valeria Golino. Although the movie is a comedy and almost everything is meant to be humorous there are some brief intense moments.

He also winds up in competition with the corps model of military perfection Elwes for the heart of the bases sultry psychiatrist Golino. Golino best known as Tom Cruises girlfriend in Rain Man brings some welcome radiance to her role as the base psychiatrist who cant. This episode revolves around the well worn story of an evil Middle-East dictator who captures American troops from Desert Storm and only one man can get them out Topper Harley Charlie Sheen.

It starts with a flyboy roasting franks in the exhaust of a combat jet and never lets up giddily puncturing all those wartime flying hero movies and throwing in a heap of movie parodies besides. Just like Top Gun the romance aspect isnt as funny as the other bits but even then it is still good. Some individual lines arent 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.

Navy pilot Topper Harley Charlie Sheen is haunted by an accident in which his father lost control of a fighter jet. Not that Hot Shots. A few plane crashes are somewhat frightening.

Either way the pacing is jetstreamed and the level of inventiveness. Reviews from parents on Common Sense Media. In this spoof of Top Gun former US.

Hot Shots was both a critical and commercial success grossing over 180 million worldwide. They are having spaghetti in an Italian restaurant and somehow they each get one end of a log strand of pasta into their mouths and suck it in. I am in the minority that liked it better.

I freely admit that this can also be what other viewers can hate or dislike with passion and strangely I can understand that. Richard Crenna reenacts his role in the RAMBO movies by playing Colonel Denton Walters who tries to enlist Topper for one last dangerous mission. Become a member to write your own review.

James Block Kevin Dunn asks Topper to come out of retirement and help him complete a classified mission Topper returns. It was quite funny and enjoyable in its own right Like the second Star Trek film this sequel gels all of the good elements from its predecessor and discards whatever didnt quite click.

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