Hot Shots! (1991)

6.1	Listal rating
6.5	IMDB rating

Comedy (16), Spoof (10), Military (8), Romance (5), Parody (4), (4), Action (4), Elvis (3), Horseback Riding (3), 1991 (3), Pianist (3), Drill Instructor (3), Blockbuster (3), Aviation (3), Elvis Impersonator (3), Elvis Presley (3), Flashbacks (2), Duology (2), Series (2), Athlete Cameo (2)

Description

"Top Gun" meets "Airplane!" Ace pilot Topper Harley is asked to come back to the Navy for a special assignment (he dropped out to go live with Native Americans after an incident made him doubt his abilities). He has personality conflicts with the other Top Gun, as they are both romantically interested in the same woman. An aeros ... (more)

Directed by

Jim Abrahams

Starring (View all) :

Lt. Topper Harley

Lt. Kent Gregory

Ramada Thompson

Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson

Kevin Dunn

Lt. Cmdr. James Block

Jon Cryer

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach

William O'Leary

Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson

Kristy Swanson

Kowalski

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Wilson

Bill Irwin

Buzz Harley

Written by (View all) :

Jim Abrahams

(written by)

Pat Proft

(written by)

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Ratings of Hot Shots!

6.1/10
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Uber

A parody movie before the sucky parodies

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 26 3:11

Older parody movies were great in taking blockbuster hits and making fun of them without most of the jokes being over the top sex jokes, adding drugs, or cussing all the time. And Hot Shots! is one of those great older parody movies. Taking a lot from Top Gun, Hot Shots! has Charlie Sheen playing a hot shot fighter pilot, Topper Harley, who's father was a fighter pilot and was rumored to have caused his co-pilots death 20 years earlier and Harley freaks out every time his father is mentioned. He has left the Navy and is convinced to return for a up coming mission. When he reaches the base, Harley's attempts to woo his therapist Ramada which happens to be Kent Gregory, Harley's rival because Gregory's father was Harley's father's co-pilot. All while that is going on a aerospace company b...Read more

Rating : 7/10

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jasoncarulli

Cheap Laughs

Posted : 2 years, 9 months ago at Feb 11 15:51

Out of respect to this spoof cult classic, I think I was being a little generous with my star rating...Cheap laughs, combined with a thin plot leave this one far from the stature of a Naked Gun, but in the end, it remains a reference in the spoof genre.

Rating : 4/10