IMDb plot summary: A parody of Top Gun in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
Directed by Jim Abrahams. Starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, and Valeria Golino.
Hot Shots! is a parody of Top Gun starring Charlie Sheen as the highly volatile but talented fighter pilot leading a squadron of planes on a dangerous mission. This is a solo film by Jim Abrahams of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker, the team behind Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and it is very much in the same vein as those films. Not being much of a Top Gun fan, it was really entertaining to see that kind of ridiculous over-the-top macho military propaganda lampooned, and as I expect from ZAZ films, there are jokes zinging left and right, so if you don't like one, just wait a minute and there'll be another. A good amount of these don't work for me, and there are almost no transcendent laugh-out-loud moments, although I was tickled by a scene in which a group of drilling soldiers seen through a background window began a kickline. But it's not annoying either for the most part, and overall it makes for a pleasant enough watch, if not in the same league as the ZAZ group work.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Hot Shots! > Get Shorty
Hot Shots! < Elf
Hot Shots! < The Pianist
Hot Shots! > The Three Musketeers (1993)
Hot Shots! > VeggieTales: Are You My Neighbor?
Hot Shots! > Hero (2002)
Hot Shots! < Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997)
Hot Shots! < Disney’s Newsies the Broadway Musical
Hot Shots! > Joker
Hot Shots! > Something to Sing About
Hot Shots! > A Scanner Darkly
Hot Shots! > Incendies
Final spot: 1562 out of 4038, or 61%.
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