Hot Shots! Part Deux. 1993 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Rowan Atkinson, Jerry Haleva, Michael Colyar, Martin Sheen (uncredited)
Director: Jim Abrahams
Available at Amazon: Single DVD. Two-fer with Hot Shots!
When two rescue parties sent to Saddam Hussein's palace are taken hostage, it's up to Topper Harley (Sheen) to come out of retirement to lead the third rescue party to Iraq. Topper has retired from the Navy since the last movie, and has taken residence in a small Buddhist village somewhere in the wilderness. Colonel Walters (Crenna) and Michelle Huddleston (Bakke) from the CIA find Topper in a humorous Muay Thai competition, which he wins in a humorous fashion (duh!) Topper is reluctant to assist the government, but agrees to take part after the second rescue party botches its mission.
On the mission, Topper is joined by Commander Arbin Harbinger (Ferrer) and the incompetent but lovable soldiers Williams and Rabinowitz (Colyar & Stiles). He relies on his patented all-practical Swiss Army bowie knife, and is surprised to find that their contact in the wilderness is Ramada (Golino).
When things seem to go wrong, the President, Tug Benson (Bridges), personally goes to Iraq to take matters in his own hands. Topper and company are all right, though, but there seems to be a traitor in the ranks somewhere. Can the saboteur be overcame, and can our boys be rescued from Saddam once and for all?
Not that bad, but obviously, it isn't as funny as the original. Recommended.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! 1991 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Bill Irwin, Ryan Stiles
Director: Jim Abrahams
Available at Amazon: Single DVD. Two-fer with Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Jim Abrahams goes solo to bring us this parody that's been described as Top Gun meets Airplane!
Twenty years before the present day, pilot Leland "Buzz" Harley (Irwin) loses control of his plane and bails, leaving his co-pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnum (Stiles) to crash land by himself. Mailman survives, but he is killed in a deer hunting accident, thanks to the branches stuck to his helmet.
Buzz's son Topper (Sheen) wakes up from a nightmare he's having about the incident, and is soon asked by Lt. Commander Block (Dunn) to return to duty as a pilot for the U.S. Navy (whose planes are helpfully labelled 'The Navy' in case we didn't recognize them). Topper had retired from the Navy to live with Native Americans. He also becomes romantically involved with his therapist Ramada (Golino), which poses a problem because she's linked to another pilot, Kent Gregory (Elwes), who hates Topper because he lost his dad thanks to Buzz's action, and Kent is convinced that Topper will eventually kill him while in action.
The mission is to destroy a nuclear power plant, which Topper does with a malfunctioning jet. The owner of an aerospace firm is trying to sabotage the mission to make the Navy's current planes look bad so they will replace them with his German made products. Topper also has time to literally drop a bomb on Saddam before returning to base with what's left of his plane.
Hot Shots! is an old favorite from my teenage days. Highly recommended.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Bill Irwin, Ryan Stiles
Director: Jim Abrahams
Available at Amazon: Single DVD. Two-fer with Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Jim Abrahams goes solo to bring us this parody that's been described as Top Gun meets Airplane!
Twenty years before the present day, pilot Leland "Buzz" Harley (Irwin) loses control of his plane and bails, leaving his co-pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnum (Stiles) to crash land by himself. Mailman survives, but he is killed in a deer hunting accident, thanks to the branches stuck to his helmet.
Buzz's son Topper (Sheen) wakes up from a nightmare he's having about the incident, and is soon asked by Lt. Commander Block (Dunn) to return to duty as a pilot for the U.S. Navy (whose planes are helpfully labelled 'The Navy' in case we didn't recognize them). Topper had retired from the Navy to live with Native Americans. He also becomes romantically involved with his therapist Ramada (Golino), which poses a problem because she's linked to another pilot, Kent Gregory (Elwes), who hates Topper because he lost his dad thanks to Buzz's action, and Kent is convinced that Topper will eventually kill him while in action.
The mission is to destroy a nuclear power plant, which Topper does with a malfunctioning jet. The owner of an aerospace firm is trying to sabotage the mission to make the Navy's current planes look bad so they will replace them with his German made products. Topper also has time to literally drop a bomb on Saddam before returning to base with what's left of his plane.
Hot Shots! is an old favorite from my teenage days. Highly recommended.
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