Hot Shots! Part Deux

Name: Hot Shots! Part Deux
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: May 21, 1993
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Brenda Bakke, Charlie Sheen, David Wohl, Jerry Haleva, Lloyd Bridges

1993

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: May 21, 1993 | PG-13

Starring: Brenda Bakke, Charlie Sheen, David Wohl, Jerry Haleva, Lloyd Bridges, Miguel Ferrer, Mitch Ryan, Richard Crenna, Rowan Atkinson, Valeria Golino

Summary: "Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.

Director: Jim Abrahams

Genre(s): Action, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 86 min

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Steve Persall

It's silly, derivative and too wacky for its own narrative good; traits that the director and Proft wear like a Congressional Medal of Honor. But it's also the funniest 86 minutes I've spent in a movie theater since, well, Hot Shots! Anybody else ready for Part Trois? Read full review

Kevin Thomas

[An] often hilarious film...Abrahams and Proft’s nonstop throwaway humor keeps spirits lifted and a smile on our faces, and it also has the admirable effect of deflating those action movies that exploit violence in the name of a pious, if dubious, patriotism. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Yeah, but at the end, he gets into hand-to-hand combat with Saddam, and he kicks the guy's butt! I love that part. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Deliciously silly. Read full review

Bob Thomas

The actors perform their deadpan duties satisfactorily. The news about Charlie Sheen is his pumped-up body. Look out, Arnold and Sly! Bridges is amusingly wild-eyed as the bionic president, and Golino manages to be sexy and funny at the same time.

Owen Gleiberman

Much of the time, the film itself veers perilously close to becoming the sort of high- body-count action spectacular it’s supposed to be parodying. When gags are tossed off in the midst of bomb blasts and deafening machine-gun fire, is it any wonder that audiences will tend to ignore the comedy and focus on the mayhem? If Hot Shots! Part Deux proves anything, it’s that making fun of big, raucous, sky-high explosions is a joke of rapidly diminishing returns. Read full review

Marc Savlov

If you were one of the many who thought the original film was brilliant, you'll undoubtedly laugh yourself stupid over this one, too. Me, I think I'll go turn on the VCR and watch the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera. Again. Read full review

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gracjanski

Nov 30, 2021

You need to like such humour full of hints to other movies and shows. I had a lot of fun again, just like with the 1st part.

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Kai82

Jun 27, 2021

I am in the minority that liked it better than the prequel. The movie has more silly, over the top and hilarious humor but the good kind. I freely admit that this can also be what other viewers can hate or dislike with passion and strangely I can understand that. It is again a comedy orI am in the minority that liked it better than the prequel. The movie has more silly, over the top and hilarious humor but the good kind. I freely admit that this can also be what other viewers can hate or dislike with passion and strangely I can understand that. It is again a comedy or better said parody / spoof movie. While the first is a parody of Top Gun this one is a parody of Rambo. Story: During the second Iraq war a rescue mission is started to free captured soldiers. However things do not go as planned and the people in charge try to get Topper Harley back into action who has retired to a small village in Thailand. This is a start to a hilarious funny and entertaining adventure. The story is a good vehicle for the humor and it delivers well. Humor: This is why I like the sequel better. It is so fun to watch, full of crazy ideas and it takes itself not serious if it can make a great joke. The main parody of the movie is Rambo but there are countless other sources for parody like for example Apocalypse Now, Basic Instinct, Lady and the Tramp, American Gladiators, Terminator 2, commercials, Disney and even a side blow to violent movies in general. It has a good mixture of humor and the characters / actors enhance this experience. In comparison to the prequel they went up to eleven. I will repeat that this can also be a point of criticism as many jokes are not deep and often the complaint is heard that it has too much silliness. Cast: Charlie Sheen returns as Topper Harley and nails his role. Again he has the Leslie Nielsen power of being totally serious in the most hilarious situations. Lloyd Bridges is also back and now President of the USA. He has a bigger role and is so enjoyable to watch. Valeria Golino resumes her role as Ramada Hayman and has a history with new character Michelle Huddleston played by Brenda Bakke. A hidden star is Jerry Haleva as Saddam Hussein (Yes, that one). His performance is just too entertaining to not be praised. There is a small cameo of Martin Sheen and Rowan Atkinson has some scenes but I say he is wasted. I say we got a great performance by genre standards. Other than that the movie looks really good. You can clearly identify the sources or movies they want to spoof / make fun of. This added a lot for me as all fells familiar. There are a few negatives: It reaches not the levels of the best parodies but is still really good. Other might find it too silly and it is a lesser experience if you don't know the sources that the parody elements aim at (Not valid for most of us as many are timeless classics or well known). Overall I see it as a classic comedy of its time. Maybe does not hold up good enough anymore but it is entertaining enough for me to rewatch once in a while. Would chose this any day over the more modern spoof movies which is actually not much of a praise but still needed to be mentioned.… Expand

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kozumel

Jan 29, 2022

Apart from a couple funny moments there is very little to see here... meh...

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