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Hot Shots!
The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only inspired laughs with his personal life. He plays Topper Harley, a fighter pilot with an ax to grind: clearing the family name. He gets involved in a relationship with Valerie Golino, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. But his mission is to avenge his father. Lloyd Bridges, late in his career, revealed an aptitude for this kind of silliness, here as a commander who is both incredibly dim and delightfully accident prone. Directed by Jim Abrahams, the film makes fun of a variety of other films as well, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys. It was so successful that they all returned in the sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Release : | 1991 |
Rating : | 6.7 |
Studio : | 20th Century Fox, |
Crew : | Assistant Property Master, Leadman, |
Cast : | Charlie Sheen Cary Elwes Valeria Golino Lloyd Bridges Kevin Dunn |
Genre : | Action Comedy War |
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Don't listen to the negative reviews
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Blistering performances.
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Valeria is my dream lover. She's an outstanding gymnast. I know I've never met a woman even close to as beautiful as Valeria Golino in my life. Top Gun's super hilarious from the very start. Mr. Charlie is really lovely as Topper Harvey. Lloyd Bridges is almost the most hilarious as the clueless admiral ('Holy cow, my cap blew off. Swing her round we'll pick it up. But sir we're on the mission. Good thinking, yeah, we'll pick it up on the way back. Got to mark the spot though. Put Robinowitz in a life raft, have him row in circles until we return. It could be days. Then put some food in the life raft for God's sake man do I have to think of everything. We'll tape his favorite shows he won't miss anything.'), Cary Elwes is nice and funny as the self-loving love child (Something's changed, hasn't it? It's not another woman I just couldn't compete with that. No, of course you couldn't.'), Ryan Stiles is pretty darn funny as the animal man mail man (Squirrel's nest!), Kevin Dunn is real funny as the helium hitting lt. commander ('Duck, sir. Are you alright, sir? Of course I'm alright. Why? What have you heard? Nothing, sir.'), William O'Leary's funny as Dead Meat ('Wendy, I can fly!'), Jon Cryer is very funny as the cross-eyed cannibal ('If it helps I didn't have seconds.'), Kristy Swanson is so funny and so epically gorgeous as the chesty mister (You eyeballing me, mister? No, sir!), Valeria Golino is really really hilarious as the sexy shrink ('Those are some long legs. I just had them lengthened. Now they go all the way up.') and so so beautiful ('You've got to be joking. Look if I were joking I would of said, what do you do with an elephant with three balls? You walk him and pitch to the rhino.'). Valeria Golino has the best, the most sexiest voice, ever. Hearing listening to Valeria speak hilarious nonsensical comedy script is pure heaven. She's hilarious. I really do love her. She is the most beautiful babe in the history of beautiful babes. OMG. omg. I want to be with her. Jim Abrahams is hilarious! In a right world I could be with Valeria. I dream about it every night.
Directed by Jim AbramsStarring Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golerino and Lloyd BridgesGeneral:Overall: I understand that comedy is subjective and I am fine with that. People will find this movie funny and I accept that. I won't accept poor acting, stupid story and horrible effects. Don't give me that rubbish 'It's a parody' because great parodies have competent stories and acting. I laughed ONCE during this film. That's not good. People will find this funny and I can understand that but I believe that comedies should, or at least attempt to, include comedy/offence that everyone can enjoy. Parodies like 'Scary Movie' feature toilet humour, references, cringe comedy - it reaches a wide variety of humour and understands that its not supposed to just appeal to one specific demographic. I could comment on the cinematography, or even the genuinely bad acting but that would be redundant because the comedy is the only point I need to make. If you like this, then fine but don't scream in my face that it's comedic genius and should be given a spot on the Greatest Films of All Time list because no comedy should. In summary, this movie will appeal a specific demographic(which I can't decide who that demographic is) and maybe children but aside from that I can't recommend it.The type of people who will like this movie will be fans of stupid, cartoony comedy that's essentially 'Tom and Jerry' meets 'Looney Toons' with a vague splash 'Top Gun' sprinkled in there. Wouldn't Recommend!Detailed:None of the actors in this film do good jobs. I realise that it can be hard to judge acting with comedy(especially in spoofs) but I just don't see any effort or charm that any of them posses. It's a stupid and boring plot followed by a stupid and boring ending. Honestly, the cinematography was fine in the movie. It was competently shot and wasn't too poorly edited either.The costume and set design were fine. The effects were truly, truly awful and just looked fake. This movie was just so boring and so unfunny that it actually made me question what people will accept as art or comedy.I found ONE joke in the movie funny and, to be fair, that was a very funny joke. I'm not gonna say it wasn't but aside from that one joke, the rest of the film was so bland for me that I just couldn't enjoy any of it.2/10Wouldn't Recommend
Hot Shots! is a fun and watchable film, is not to die laughing, most also ta far from a movie dull, the film that spoofs very films such as Top Gun, has a good cast, Charlie Sheen this very well, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer (to find Charlie Sheen future in the series Two and Half Men), and etc, the soundtrack is good, has very funny scenes, the script has problems, some dialogues are weak, have unnecessary scenes, even the movie is short, It is unnecessary times Hot Shots! It is not the best comedy of all time, more is far from being a bad movie, it's fun, and it has very funny scenes, plus the sequence of the film's funniest and fun Note 6.5
Some 20 years ago, when i was a kid, i saw this film with an amateur single-voice Russian dub of horrible quality. I haven't yet got to see Top Gun or Dances with Wolves back then, so i simply took this film at face value. And... it felt really funny! I mean, all those gags and silly slapstick humor hit right through without any second thought.Yesterday i decided to take a walk down memory lane and re-watched it. Well, i have to say it wasn't such a good idea, because over the years i've come to expect a subtler, higher quality humor from the comedies, and the never-ending sequence of jokes or moments that were supposed to be funny no matter what grew old and tiresome rather fast. I mean, it's still a rather decent mockery of Top Gun since it clearly reveals the cheapness of the pathos that film boasted. But when Hot Shots! tried to do anything of its own, it felt pretty dumbed down and cheap itself.Apparently i'm a minority here because most people on the movie's board seem to have a pretty high esteem of it. But, while i understand why someone would enjoy Hot Shots!, it's important to state that there's nothing wrong or weird in having a less impressed view on it. After all, even comedies can be made for different tastes, and Hot Shots! is clearly more of a fast food sort of cinema than an haute cuisine type of it.