With EU accounts unless otherwise stated. Please Note: E U Blu-rays with Digital / UltraViolet copies are only redeemable Pining for his formerlover (Valeria Golino) in a Buddhist temple, Topper manages to pull himself together and sets forth to conquer this action-packed-and laugh-filled-task. and the countless men who have already been sent in to rescue them. Finally, the Hot Shots Part Deux script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie starring Charlie Sheen. This time, the country’s incompetent president (Lloyd Bridges) sends him to the Middle East to rescue US hostages. Charlie Sheen (TV’s Two and a Half Men, TV’s Anger Management ) returns as former renegade pilot Topper Harley, once again recruited for a secret mission. This time the countrys incompetent president (Lloyd. than the original” (James Berardinelli, ReelViews ). Former renegade pilot Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is once again recruited for a secret mission. This hilarious sequel to Hot Shots! delivers “plenty of gags and countless movie parodies” (Leonard Maltin) and has a “more humorous edge. 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.The Hot Shots! Blu-ray, available here from Shopville, is a parody of "Rambo" in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams. Where else can you find a pop quiz on the film or the secret to The Crying Game listed among the cast and the crew?Ībrahams' lark won't be remembered at Oscar time, or much beyond its video release, for that matter. Those credits are worth sitting through, as in every movie of this post-Airplane! genre. Abrahams' faith in his audience's ability to spot the jokes is such that a Godfather reference slipped by until the credits. : Hot Shots Part Deux : Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Brenda Bakke, Richard Crenna, Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft, Jim Abrahams, Jim Abrahams. Hot Shots! Part Deux has the amiable gall to ridicule movies that it can't begin to approach in quality _ Apocalypse Now and Lady and the Tramp parodies are highlights, but the Wizard of Oz and Return of the Jedi references are a tad tiresome. Sheen's solemnity in the face of stupidity, inside jokes, cultural signposts and obscure references is a deadpan delight. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and Ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Hot Shots Part Deux. Sheen amazes with his willingness to poke fun at himself as a fighting machine with a few screws loose and just the right amount of oil on his Nautilized torso. Finally, the Hot Shots Part Deux script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie starring Charlie Sheen. Miguel Ferrer (Twin Peaks) and British comic Rowan Atkinson check in with plum supporting roles. Brenda Bakke adds sinister sexuality as Ramada's rival _ she even plants her lucky beauty mark on his cheek before battle. New to the ranks is Richard Crenna, with a sly turn on his character in the Rambo trilogy. Along the way, Topper reunites with his main squeeze Ramada (Valeria Golino) and his former commanding officer Tug Benson (Lloyd Bridges, in another supremely funny performance,), who somehow blundered his way into the presidency, brain-addled as ever. The threadbare storyline should be familiar to anyone who has endured Sylvester Stallone's testosterone fests: Topper is called out of a self-imposed retirement to rescue a rescue team that was captured trying to rescue hostages in the Middle East. The movie's midsection slumps a bit, as if Abrahams realized that he had to behave himself in order to move the storyline along, but that just gives the audience time to catch its breath _ or catch up with a gag that sailed by before. Hot Shots! Part Deux is a hilarious, if slightly uneven, way to start the summer movie season, before the dinosaurs and action heroes take over.įrom the opening scene, where a Saddam Hussein look-alike prepares a snack before bed _ his treat is in the refrigerator, right next to the Hungry Nomad TV Dinner _ Hot Shots! Part Deux is armed to the teeth with laughs. So what if the one-liners don't always hit the bull's-eye? No sense of humor can escape the hail of goofy cultural references, bad puns and double entendres the filmmakers unleash. Like the outrageously huge automatic weapon Topper wields, Abrahams and Proft just pull their creative triggers and let the gags fly.
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