Hot Shots! Part Deux
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Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 comedy
/parody film
, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots!
.
Directed again by Jim Abrahams
, the film stars Charlie Sheen
, Lloyd Bridges
, Valeria Golino
, Richard Crenna
, Brenda Bakke
, Miguel Ferrer
, Rowan Atkinson
, and Jerry Haleva
. Sheen, who portrays a spoof of action heroes, went through a tough weight lifting
/training program to gain the physique needed to play the role of an action hero
.
Abrahams and Pat Proft
were the writers of the screenplay
. Members of both men's families have roles as extras.
's (Haleva
) palace to rescue hostages. They are ambushed by Iraqi guards. While a gunfight ensues he is awakened, and with his sleep mask still on shoots blindly around the interior. The rescue team is captured as he runs out screaming, shooting wildly into the air, and falling into the fountain.
Topper Harley (Sheen
) has retired from the Navy and become a Buddhist in a small village. Colonel Walters (Crenna
) and Michelle Huddleston (Bakke
), CIA, arrive and try to persuade him to come out of retirement in order to rescue a rescue party who went in to do the same and are now hostages in Iraq.
Topper initially refuses, but when another rescue mission led by Walters goes awry, he agrees and parachutes into an Iraqi jungle with Harbinger (Ferrer
), Williams (Colyar
), and Rabbinowitz (Stiles
), close to the heavily guarded hostage camp. Their contact turns out to be Topper's former love, Ramada (Golino
), who guides them to a fishing boat that she prepared for their transportation. She and Topper reminisce, and he explains that she was married before she met him, but could not tell him about her husband, Dexter (Atkinson
), for complicated reasons. She also informs him that Dexter is one of the hostages.
A confrontation with an Iraqi patrol boat destroys theirs. When United States President Tug Benson (Admiral Benson in the previous film
) hears of the apparent failure of another mission, he takes matters into his own hands.
The commandos reach shore safely. Topper grows suspicious of Harbinger since he was not around when the patrol boat showed up. They reach the Iraqi hostage camp, where a gunfight ensues that the Americans win despite overwhelming odds. Topper finds Harbinger hiding out and at first accuses him of being the saboteur; Harbinger reveals that he has lost faith in fighting and breaks down, but Topper calms him down. Harbinger becomes motivated to continue the mission. After the prisoners are freed, Topper decides to rescue Dexter.
While the squad evacuates the hostages, Topper enters Saddam's seemingly abandoned palace. He runs into him, who pulls out his machine pistol
and commands him to surrender. Topper disarms him and they engage in a sword fight. President Benson arrives and orders Topper to rescue Dexter while Benson and Saddam pull out lightsaber
s and continue the duel. Benson defeats Saddam by spraying him with a fire extinguisher, upon which he and his dog solidify, crack, and melt, only to combine and reform as him with his dog's head fur, nose, and ears.
The squad heads back to the army helicopter, where Ramada discovers that Michelle is the saboteur who imprisoned Dexter and reveals that they were roommates at the university. After a complicated revelation, Ramada chases her over an assault course similar to American Gladiators
, eventually catching her.
Dexter arrives with Topper and insists on taking a picture of him and Ramada, claiming "under other circumstances, you'd make a great couple." He backs away too far and topples over a cliff, at which point they acknowledge that "he really was a wiener". Colonel Walters arrests Michelle as President Benson joins the escapees. Saddam is about to shoot down the chopper when Topper and Ramada get rid of extra weight in it by pushing a piano out the open door, which crushes him. Topper and Ramada kiss as they ride off into the sunset, although the chopper gets a little scorched from flying through the sun.
was aired on Home Box Office
. Entitled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now
(which starred Charlie Sheen's father and co-star in the film, Martin Sheen
).
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
/parody film
Parody film
A parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or films. Although the genre is often overlooked, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office...
, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots!
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy spoof film starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer and Ryan Stiles . It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of Airplane! , and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft...
.
Directed again by Jim Abrahams
Jim Abrahams
Jim Abrahams is an American movie director and writer.Abrahams was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family, and attended Shorewood High School...
, the film stars Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
, Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most-popular syndicated American TV series in 1958...
, Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino is an Italian-Greek film and television actress. She is best known to English language audiences for the 1988 film Rain Man, and the Hot Shots! films...
, Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid...
, Brenda Bakke
Brenda Bakke
Brenda Jean Bakke is an American actress better known for her roles as Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential, Michelle Rodham Huddleston in Hot Shots! Part Deux, where she plays a spoof on Sharon Stone's character from Basic Instinct, Cordelia the prostitute in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and...
, Miguel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer
Miguel José Ferrer is an American actor and voice actor who is often cast as a villain. His notable roles include Bob Morton, a supporting character in RoboCop , the short tempered FBI agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks, and Dr...
, Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...
, and Jerry Haleva
Jerry Haleva
Jerry Haleva is an American actor and political lobbyist known for his physical similarities to late former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein...
. Sheen, who portrays a spoof of action heroes, went through a tough weight lifting
Weight training
Weight training is a common type of strength training for developing the strength and size of skeletal muscles. It uses the weight force of gravity to oppose the force generated by muscle through concentric or eccentric contraction...
/training program to gain the physique needed to play the role of an action hero
Action hero
An action hero is a character, usually a protagonist, in an action-adventure novel, film, television show, or game.-Further reading:*Osgerby, Bill, Anna Gough-Yates, and Marianne Wells. Action TV : Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks. London: Routledge, 2001.*Tasker, Yvonne. Action and...
.
Abrahams and Pat Proft
Pat Proft
Patrick "Pat" Proft is an American comedy writer and actor.Proft was born in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, the son of Marguerite and Bob Proft. He began his career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis. In the mid-1970s, he began writing for television and films...
were the writers of the screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
. Members of both men's families have roles as extras.
Plot
A rescue team invades Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
's (Haleva
Jerry Haleva
Jerry Haleva is an American actor and political lobbyist known for his physical similarities to late former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein...
) palace to rescue hostages. They are ambushed by Iraqi guards. While a gunfight ensues he is awakened, and with his sleep mask still on shoots blindly around the interior. The rescue team is captured as he runs out screaming, shooting wildly into the air, and falling into the fountain.
Topper Harley (Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
) has retired from the Navy and become a Buddhist in a small village. Colonel Walters (Crenna
Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid...
) and Michelle Huddleston (Bakke
Brenda Bakke
Brenda Jean Bakke is an American actress better known for her roles as Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential, Michelle Rodham Huddleston in Hot Shots! Part Deux, where she plays a spoof on Sharon Stone's character from Basic Instinct, Cordelia the prostitute in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and...
), CIA, arrive and try to persuade him to come out of retirement in order to rescue a rescue party who went in to do the same and are now hostages in Iraq.
Topper initially refuses, but when another rescue mission led by Walters goes awry, he agrees and parachutes into an Iraqi jungle with Harbinger (Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer
Miguel José Ferrer is an American actor and voice actor who is often cast as a villain. His notable roles include Bob Morton, a supporting character in RoboCop , the short tempered FBI agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks, and Dr...
), Williams (Colyar
Michael Colyar
Michael Colyar is an American comedian and motivational speaker. He is mostly known as the heavy-hitting concert promoter "Showboat" in the 1994 movie, House Party 3.Colyar also spent his formative years as a comic, busking on Venice Beach....
), and Rabbinowitz (Stiles
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Lee Stiles is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his improv and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the role of Lewis Kiniski on The Drew...
), close to the heavily guarded hostage camp. Their contact turns out to be Topper's former love, Ramada (Golino
Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino is an Italian-Greek film and television actress. She is best known to English language audiences for the 1988 film Rain Man, and the Hot Shots! films...
), who guides them to a fishing boat that she prepared for their transportation. She and Topper reminisce, and he explains that she was married before she met him, but could not tell him about her husband, Dexter (Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...
), for complicated reasons. She also informs him that Dexter is one of the hostages.
A confrontation with an Iraqi patrol boat destroys theirs. When United States President Tug Benson (Admiral Benson in the previous film
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy spoof film starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer and Ryan Stiles . It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of Airplane! , and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft...
) hears of the apparent failure of another mission, he takes matters into his own hands.
The commandos reach shore safely. Topper grows suspicious of Harbinger since he was not around when the patrol boat showed up. They reach the Iraqi hostage camp, where a gunfight ensues that the Americans win despite overwhelming odds. Topper finds Harbinger hiding out and at first accuses him of being the saboteur; Harbinger reveals that he has lost faith in fighting and breaks down, but Topper calms him down. Harbinger becomes motivated to continue the mission. After the prisoners are freed, Topper decides to rescue Dexter.
While the squad evacuates the hostages, Topper enters Saddam's seemingly abandoned palace. He runs into him, who pulls out his machine pistol
Beretta 93R
The Beretta Model 93R is a selective-fire machine pistol, designed and manufactured by the Italian Beretta company in the 1970s for police and military use, that is derived from their semi-automatic Model 92...
and commands him to surrender. Topper disarms him and they engage in a sword fight. President Benson arrives and orders Topper to rescue Dexter while Benson and Saddam pull out lightsaber
Lightsaber
A lightsaber is a fictional weapon in the Star Wars universe, a "laser sword." It consists of a polished metal hilt which projects a blade of light about 1.33 metres long. The lightsaber is the signature weapon of the Jedi order and their Sith counterparts, both of whom can use them for close...
s and continue the duel. Benson defeats Saddam by spraying him with a fire extinguisher, upon which he and his dog solidify, crack, and melt, only to combine and reform as him with his dog's head fur, nose, and ears.
The squad heads back to the army helicopter, where Ramada discovers that Michelle is the saboteur who imprisoned Dexter and reveals that they were roommates at the university. After a complicated revelation, Ramada chases her over an assault course similar to American Gladiators
American Gladiators
American Gladiators is an American competition television program that aired in syndication from September 1989 to May 1996. The series matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other, as well as against the show's own gladiators, in contests of strength and agility.The concept was created by...
, eventually catching her.
Dexter arrives with Topper and insists on taking a picture of him and Ramada, claiming "under other circumstances, you'd make a great couple." He backs away too far and topples over a cliff, at which point they acknowledge that "he really was a wiener". Colonel Walters arrests Michelle as President Benson joins the escapees. Saddam is about to shoot down the chopper when Topper and Ramada get rid of extra weight in it by pushing a piano out the open door, which crushes him. Topper and Ramada kiss as they ride off into the sunset, although the chopper gets a little scorched from flying through the sun.
Cast
- Charlie SheenCharlie SheenCarlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
as Topper Harley - Lloyd BridgesLloyd BridgesLloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most-popular syndicated American TV series in 1958...
as President Thomas "Tug" Benson - Valeria GolinoValeria GolinoValeria Golino is an Italian-Greek film and television actress. She is best known to English language audiences for the 1988 film Rain Man, and the Hot Shots! films...
as Ramada Rodham Hayman - Richard CrennaRichard CrennaRichard Donald Crenna was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid...
as Col. Walters - Brenda BakkeBrenda BakkeBrenda Jean Bakke is an American actress better known for her roles as Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential, Michelle Rodham Huddleston in Hot Shots! Part Deux, where she plays a spoof on Sharon Stone's character from Basic Instinct, Cordelia the prostitute in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and...
as Michelle Rodham Huddleston - Miguel FerrerMiguel FerrerMiguel José Ferrer is an American actor and voice actor who is often cast as a villain. His notable roles include Bob Morton, a supporting character in RoboCop , the short tempered FBI agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks, and Dr...
as Cmdr. Arvid Harbinger - Rowan AtkinsonRowan AtkinsonRowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...
as Dexter Hayman - Jerry HalevaJerry HalevaJerry Haleva is an American actor and political lobbyist known for his physical similarities to late former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein...
as Saddam HusseinSaddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003... - David WohlDavid WohlDavid Wohl is an American comic book writer and editor. He is best known as an editor at Marvel Comics and Top Cow Productions and, at the latter, writing The Darkness and Witchblade.-Biography:...
as Gerou - Mitchell RyanMitchell RyanMitchell Ryan is an American actor most recently known for playing Edward Montgomery on the sitcom Dharma & Greg. He also worked with his on-screen wife from Dharma & Greg, Susan Sullivan, in the short-lived series Julie Farr, M.D..Ryan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Louisville,...
as Senator Gray Edwards - Michael ColyarMichael ColyarMichael Colyar is an American comedian and motivational speaker. He is mostly known as the heavy-hitting concert promoter "Showboat" in the 1994 movie, House Party 3.Colyar also spent his formative years as a comic, busking on Venice Beach....
as Williams - Ryan StilesRyan StilesRyan Lee Stiles is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his improv and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the role of Lewis Kiniski on The Drew...
as Rabinowitz - Martin SheenMartin SheenRamón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Reception
Reviews for Hot Shots! Part Deux were generally favorable, although not to the extent of its predecessor. The film became a financial success at the box office in 1993, grossing over $130 million worldwide.Mockumentary promotion
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentaryMockumentary
A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...
was aired on Home Box Office
Home Box Office
HBO, short for Home Box Office, is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner. , HBO's programming reaches 28.2 million subscribers in the United States, making it the second largest premium network in America . In addition to its U.S...
. Entitled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 documentary film about the production of Apocalypse Now.-Synopsis:The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness...
, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
(which starred Charlie Sheen's father and co-star in the film, Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...
).