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Hot Shots! Part Deux

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Hot Shots: Part Deux! is an amazing rarity---a sequel that's actually superior to the first movie. (Not that Hot Shots! was bad; 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 didn't quite click. In this case, the supporting cast made the movie even more than Charlie Sheen as its troubled hero Topper Harley. Returning are the late great Lloyd Bridges, this time as the president, and Valeria Golino as the lovely Ramada. Joining Topper are his former CO (Richard Crenna), a no-nonsense tough-guy soldier (Miguel Ferrer), a cool blonde CIA operative (Brenda Bakke) and Ramada's hapless yet scornful spouse (the wretchedly hilarious Rowan Atkinson).

Abandoned for no apparent reason by Ramada, Topper seeks inner peace at an Asian monastery, kicking the crap out of whoever steps into the fighting arena with him. His former CO finds him and asks Harley to go on a mission to find the men who went to find the men who were sent to find the men---you get the idea. In a filmed spoof of both other films (Rambo, Terminator II) and real-life events (President George the elder Bush's unfortunate vomiting into the lap of a Japanese official), Hot Shots Deux is funny, fresh and at times even more insane than a Leslie Neilsen movie, without the tendency to bog down that usually plagues this type of sight comedy.

Sheen, of course, deserves plenty of credit for the movie's success, for he breathes life into the potentially cardboard lead role. Crenna does an excellent if off-the-wall reprise of his colonel character from Rambo. Bridges is sickeningly funny as the semi-lunatic president who's had more parts replaced than a '71 Volkswagen and may be a couple cards shy of a full deck. Gorgeous Golino and beautiful Bakke duke it out---literally, in an homage to American Gladiator. Ferrer, not known for comedic parts, is deadpan, Joe-Friday hilarious as the hard-bitten Harbinger, especially when he goes to pieces during a battle. Atkinson is acerbic and despicable as Ramada's self-absorbed and undeserving husband. Toss into this mix a dead ringer for Saddam Hussein (with a lisp!), and the result is one crazy ride, almost as insane as the one Topper endures with the CIA blonde on a squeaky bed. Some of the humor is risque but nothing is flat-out offensive; it's not a movie for young children, but teens and adults alike should enjoy it very much.

In summary, this is that rare sequel that stepped well beyond the confines of its previous version, and was much funnier. Highly recommended for an hour and twenty-eight minutes of viewing pleasure.

Just one word of advice: Don't watch this movie while recovering from hernia surgery. I literally laughed till it hurt.

This kooky movie is the sequel to Hot Shots! and takes aim at the movie Rambo. In this story, Topper Harley (played by Charlie Sheen) must return to Iraq to rescue a group of people held hostage by that evil madman, Saddam Hussein. Surrounded by a group of equally crazy and trigger-happy misfits, Topper goes in with guns blazing, setting out to make this the bloodiest (and silliest) movie ever! [Color, released in 1993, with a running time of 1:26.]

This is an extremely funny, extremely offbeat movie from that king of funny, offbeat movies - Jim Abrahams. If you are familiar with Mr. Abrahams' other movies, Airplane and The Naked Gun, then you know just what kind of zaniness he is capable of. Well, this movie lives up to the standards set by those other Abrahams hits.

The story is quite funny, with lots of slapstick, sight gags, and all around silliness. Now, it does have one silly sex scene that will embarrass you to watch in front of your adolescent children, so you should be ready. But, beyond that, it is a silly movie that is a lot of fun for adults and kids alike. I highly recommend this movie!

Charlie Sheen returns for part 2 which is basically a send-up of Rambo with T2, Seahunt, Apocalypse Now and Kickboxer thrown in for good measure. Sheen's Topper Harley is brought in to rescue prisoners from Irag, including several other rescue parties that got captured trying to rescue the original prisoners. Lloyd Bridges is hilarious as the president who never quite knows what's going on. Sheen does a good Rambo impersonation and they have Richard Crenna playing the same father figure role he played in the Rambo movies. There are site gags galore and clever wordplay. So much goes on you have to watch it more than once to catch everything.

HOT SHOTS PART DEUX is an admirable sequel to the hilarious HOT SHOTS. Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino and Lloyd Bridges return from the original, but their characters have different histories in this one, which doesn't really make much sense in a sequel, but hey, who's complaining? It's a fun-filled movie filled with some excellent sight gags, some off the cuff dialogue and the wonderful background gags you might not see if you're paying too much attention to the movie. Both a cinematic and political spoof, Sheen shines in his reprisal of Topper Harley in his buffed Rambo body; Golino and Brenda Bakke keep the hormones bubbling in their effectively sexy and funny performances. The Sadam Hussein spoof is hilarious, with his lisp and his Americanized habits. Check out the different foods he keeps in his cupboard. The T-2 "morphing" sequence has hilarious results too. Bridges as usual steals most of his scenes, and Richard Crenna effectively spoofs his own RAMBO character. I didn't think this one sustained its frenetic pace as well as the original, but it still made me howl with laughter, so it's definitely worth viewing.

I just loaned my DVD of this to a friend and she raved about it for days. I hadn't seen it in a few years and nearly injured myself laughing. An extremely smart flick with the perfect mix of nonsense, slapstick, and some of the best contemporary political satire one could hope for. Post Gulf War and pre 9/11 but still deeply relevant in its take on our continuing idiotic confrontation of two absolutely ridiculous cultures. No one is spared and that's the way it should be. A perfect film for those who realize the whole planet's turned into one big looney bin. This is in my top ten of all-time great satires!

If you like comedies, movies about the military, or comedy movies about the military, then grab this one. It's fully loaded with great site gags, one-liners, and jabs at those "serious" military flicks. A great group of cast members who play off each other remarkably well. You'll laugh yourself right out of your camouflaged BVDs.

This movie is a special treat for mature war film buffs. It has great over-the-top acting with truely masterful comedic performances from a cast of veteran actors. Charlie Sheen has the ripped tough guy look downpat. The late Richard Crenna plays a perfect straight hard core military officer. Well paced,excellent production values,photography, sound effects, multiple layers of humor, with sight gags, and dialogue that uses many double meanings. LLoyd Bridges does a scene reminiscent of the famous early 1960's "Sea Hunt" series that is a side splitter. Tremendous political satire of Pres.Bush 41, and Saddam Hussein. The movie uses sexual situations and word play masterfully.( Ex. An Iraqi interrogator using Yiddish expressions) "Hot Shots! Part Duex" wickedly parodies the gun violence and martial arts in many action movies. If you have seen the TV series Sea Hunt, American Gladiators; the movies: Rambo, Navy Seals, Terminator II, KickBoxer, Apocalypse Now and know anything about the Iraq War.. you'll just fall out of your chair laughing. What "Blazing Saddles" did to the Western Genre and "Spaceballs" does to science fiction and "Shrek" did to animated films.. "Hot Shots! Part Duex" does to action war films.

"HOT SHOTS,PART DEUX" IS A HILARIOUS FILM SINCE "AIRPLANE", AND I WATCH THIS FILM WHENEVER IT'S ON HBO OR I MIGHT OWN IT ON DVD. IT WAS BETTER AND FUNNIER THAN THE FIRST, MOSTLY BECAUSE IT LAMPOONS OTHER FILMS LIKE "RAMBO","LADY AND THE TRAMP",AND EVEN "TERMINATOR 2". BUT THIS ONE IS THE FUNNIEST AND I LIKE IT MORE THAN PART 1, THE SCENE WERE THE FIGHT WITH CHARLIE SHEEN AND THE JAPANESE GUY WAS HILARIOUS, ALL THE OTHER SCENES WERE ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. A REALLY FUNNY SEQUEL TO LIKE, IF YOU LIKE OTHER JOKE OR LAMPOONED MOVIES, THIS IS NUMBER 1 AND THE BEST.

This movie is the 2nd funniest movie of all time, only because the first hot shots movie is slightly better and funnier. I'm still wondering where the DVD version of this is ? I'm wearing out my vhs tape watching this over and over again. Pat Proft is so good at comedy and if you watch Wrongfully Accused you realize he's responsible for some of the funniest parts of the movie and the classic, hilarious sound effects and sound humor.
You can't own Hot Shots without owing this, i love movies like this, that even the credits are funny. People actually stayed in the theater to watch the credits. Lloyd Bridges just makes this movie and Charlie Sheen is a great comedy actor. The Scene with the bow and arrow and the chicken is the classic scene from this movie, too bad they showed it in the trailer, when the movie came out. Can't have one without the other. Own both of the hot shots movies.