Synopsis
The mother of all movies.
Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
1991 Directed by Jim Abrahams
Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
Charlie Sheen Cary Elwes Valeria Golino Lloyd Bridges Kevin Dunn Jon Cryer William O'Leary Kristy Swanson Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Bill Irwin Heidi Swedberg Bruce A. Young Ryan Stiles Rino Thunder Mark Arnott Ryan Cutrona Don Lake Kelly Connell Tony Simotes Don Luce Judith Kahan Jeff Bright Jimmy Lennon Jr. Marie Thomas-Foster Ryan Fitzgerald Al Clegg Pat Proft Marc Shaiman Cylk Cozart Show All…
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"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.
If Top Gun: Maverick exists, then so should Hot Shots: Topper.
I definitely watched Part Deux way more than the original Hot Shots as a kid, probably because I was way more familiar with the Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies that one was parodying than Top Gun, which I might not have even seen by the time the first Hot Shots! came out. (I definitely hadn’t seen The Fabulous Baker Boys, that’s for sure.) To my delight, this held up a lot better than I expected, with tons of killer zings. My favorite:
Topper: “I could never find time for love. It's too heavy. It's an anchor that drowns a man. Besides, I got the sky, the smell of jet exhaust, and my bike.”
Dead Meat: “A loner?”
Topper: “No. I own it.”
"Be seated! Ah... many of you are wondering what's wrong with my pants, well they started running short on materials right before they got to the knees so don't give me any shit. Ah. I look out there on all you wonderful guys and I say to myself, ""What I wouldn't give to be 20 years younger... and a woman"". You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."
😂✈️🛬🚢🛫✈️😂
"What do you do with an elephant with three balls? You walk him and pitch to the rhino."
Stupid, but one out of every twenty jokes made me laugh, and when you're throwing down another gag every twenty seconds, that's a lot of laughter. Charlie Sheen and Cary Elwes were pitch perfect parody copies of Cruise and Kilmer. And no one does straight-faced batshit crazy like Lloyd Bridges. Endlessly quotable.
I saw this back when it came out but the only thing I remembered was Charlie Sheen cooking breakfast on Valeria Golino. For some reason that really stayed with me. Still a highlight.
The effort and budget that once went into mainstream spoof comedy is so interesting to see now. This is in league with Monty Python and Mel Brooks in terms of consistently clever sight gags. Charlie Sheen donning the Superman outfit was also impressive, and he had the jawline and physique to do it justice. 7.7/10
A spoof of top gun with jokes nearly every minute, personally most of these jokes landed Nd were hilarious, were well done even though they're silly, some didn't work but it didn't stop this from being one of thebfunniest films of the 90s. Lloyd bridges though was a classic, he was the funniest actor in this..
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Today: Hot Shots!
„Dead Meat had figured everything out - the global warming, the JFK assassination - and he survived even a horrible crash, incompetent dangerous drivers… but the American healthcare system finished him off… .“
(The Two Cineasts)
Hi everybody, the whole world is talking about handmade action, daring stunts and tough strapping lads full of testosterone and need for speed. But what about the other guys, not The Other Guys but the men and men who sacrifice themselves for the greater good and world peace, good soldiers who fight the enemy despite their visual impairment or ominous dooming name?
Hot Spots! is a worthy entry in our list Top 22 Dumb…
Nurse, check his penis, is it bigger than mine?
No, doctor
Can you save him doc?
Well, it’s hard to say. I’m not a very good doctor.
This wasn’t as funny as the other top level of spoof movies like Airplane and Top Secret. A lot of the jokes didn’t quite land for me and I wasn’t a huge fan of Charlie Sheen in this. That said though, the number of times this made me laugh out loud can’t be ignored, the jokes that did land I found to be hysterical and Lloyd Bridges is just a treasure.
*Tosses grenade
God, I love a good funeral!
Topper does an arial move called the ‘Paula Abdul’ and it is literally just a sped up version of that dead-air-rotating-starfish move the bad guys pull on Maverick and Rooster in Top Gun 2.
Hot Shots! was SO ahead of its time.
When a parody is better than the original, you know you're talking about something special, but it's not a first-timer for Abrahams. Several unpredictable gags, great transitions, effective humor, endless quotes, and everything is actually well shot! Replay value is high as you'll surely notice new details every single time.
75/100