Hot Shots! (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 81 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino and Lloyd Bridges
IMDb score:
6,7 (125.663)
Releasedate: 31 July 1991
Hot Shots! plot
"The mother of all movies."
This Top Gun spoof is about Topper Harley (Sheen) who starts to doubt his abilities after a plane crash and goes to live with a group of Native Americans. He is persuaded to fly again, because he has to bomb a factory of Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, he must fight another top pilot for the love of Ramada Thompson (Golino).
Actors and actresses
Topper Harley / Rhett Butler / Superman
Kent Gregory
Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane
Admiral Benson
Lt. Commander Block
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach
Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson
Kowalski
Wilson
Buzz Harley
Reviews & comments
blurp194
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- 5798 messages
- 4376 votes
Oh, it's been a long time.
And what strikes me most now is how unpleasant it all actually is - I liked it more at the time, but now all that comes out is a thin smile. Perhaps mainly because it is so bland and exaggerated, perhaps also because I still knew too much about the jokes. Quite remarkable actually, when I consider that I haven't seen the film in at least 25 years.
Sheen was still a fairly neutral actor back then - not yet sunk to the very dubious level it is today. Over the top irritating, although that fits in this role somewhat. Lloyd Bridges is also irritating, the jokes he is allowed to bring are just too bland. Actually, only when Valeria Golino is in the picture does the humor come across a little better - just a little bit less bland, or could it be her own fault.
Maybe I shouldn't review part two right away. There is such a thing as too much.
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Lovelyboy
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- 4105 messages
- 3076 votes
I've seen it before, but I don't really remember what I thought about it at the time. The fear of something really bad was overcome the day before yesterday by the curiosity of whether it was fun or not, and Hot Shots surprised me quite a bit.
And the first jokes on the aircraft carrier are well-crafted and well thought out, making fun of the images as we know them from a carrier and then continuing with practically every well-known film from the 80s and 90s. Rambo, Dances With Wolves, Rocky, Top Gun, it's not even possible to name them all or recognize them so quickly as the situations follow. The food scene is of course the iconic kind that everyone knows, and of course Loyd 'wrong moment to stop sniffing glue' Bridges is on hand for something as silly as this.
It is striking that Sheen and Jon Cryer already meet here, and for those who think that the Two And A Half Men link ends there must have missed that Ryan Stiles (Herb Melnick) is also present. Golino is beautiful of course, but possibly even more beautiful is Kristy Swanson, the one with whom Sheen takes a pretty crazy ride in The Chase. Apparently the comedy world is so small. Cary Elwes is also excellently cast as the Iceman opposite.
And so it's likely that I like the movie more now than I used to, and the explanation for that is simple. This is due to the fact that as a viewer I now know many of the faked scenes and therefore also understand the joke better. Anyway, an Oscar winner obviously doesn't like this, but an hour and a half of uncomplicated laughter is certainly possible.
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