Hot Shots! Part Deux

Movie references, sight gags, silly puns, and double entendres abound in Hot Shots! Part Deux, Jim Abrahams' sequel to Hot Shots -- only now the object of the skewering is the Stallone Rambo movies instead of Top Gun. Charlie Sheen returns as the lunk-headed Topper Harley, who has retreated to a ...more

While less critically acclaimed than its prequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux performed marvelously at the box office by earning a healthy 38 million dollars. Director Jim Abrahams continued to mine the material that he had perfected with Jerry and David Zucker in films like Airplane (1980) and Top Secret (1984). Both Charlie Sheen, who offers a perfect send-up of all things macho, and Italian actress Valeria Golino, whose deadpan delivery aptly matches the hero's, reunite from Hot Shots! (1991). There ...more