"My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals."

This is the greatest movie ever made.

"What do you do with an elephant with three balls? You walk him and pitch to the rhino."

"Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!"
"Uh, Sphincter Mucus Niner Ringworm, roger!"

I think that quote about sums up the silliness of Hot Shots!

I remember watching this with my brothers as a kid and absolutely dying with laughter and it still makes me crack up now! There are even a few things that I picked up on this rewatch that I have never noticed before.

Lloyd Bridges is an absolute comic genius and he has the best lines throughout the film by far, so good.
I had to LOL at Charlie and Alan being together, this is something I'd never ever thought about before.
And i love Cary Ewles doing comedy, he's really great. Need to rewatch me some Men in Tights again soon!

Please, if you haven't seen Hot Shots! get it in your life!

How Lloyd Bridges never won an Oscar for HOT SHOTS is beyond me. The mere sight of him in this movie makes me LOL so hard.

Back when parodies were funny...

I just needed some dumb laughs to cheer me up and distract me today thanks to the action of 53% of the UK's population yesterday who have been convinced by the likes of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Iain Duncan Smith and Nigel Farage.

FFS

"Hot Shots!" ist einer der Kultfilme schlechthin, herrlich übertrieben und hammerhaiharte Dialoge garantieren Bauchkitzel!

Do you have any soup? I love soup

Hilarious. Maybe a little over the top with people hitting their heads on things. But that’s okay. Lloyd Bridges as Admiral Benson absolutely steals the show. What a national treasure.

Admiral Benson : Oh, by the way I would like to thank you for having us over for dinner the other night. Cheryl and I thought the stroganoff was marvelous.

Lt. Commander Block : But sir, we didn't have dinner the other night.

Admiral Benson : Really? Then where the hell was I? And who's this Cheryl? Bah! Doesn't matter.

It's not nearly as funny as it thinks it is

This Top Gun spoof is great fun. Why has Hollywood stopped making fun spoof films like this?

The sex scene is one of the best edited scenes in cinema history

I am partial to Part Deux but this one has its moments

Hot Shots! was directed by Jim Abrahams who was one third of the directing team behind Airplane!
Somehow, in this first viewing in many years, I somehow felt the absense of the Zucker Brothers.

That is not to say Hot Shots! is a bad movie.
Read my lips: Hot Shots! is still funny and hence a good movie.
But somehow it feels not quite the equal of Airplane! and certainly The Naked Gun.

One reason is the over-reliance on gags that feature people banging their heads into things.
There are other similar gags that aren't just obvious but simply uninspired.

But there are lots of gags that are very funny and most importantly the movie moves along at good speed with the right balance between being zany but having a straight face while doing so.

if you judge this movie exclusively on every single scene with Lloyd Bridges, it is a clear 5/5 all time classic comedy

but he wasn't in it nearly enough, and that's why it's not very good. Abrahams is nothing without the Zuckers