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| ![Hot Shots! Part Deux [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31DQ9X89EDL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Jim Abrahams
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 231702
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Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 0850708
EAN: 4010232007667
ASIN: B00005K4NC
Theatrical Release Date: May 21, 1993
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 FITFULLY FUNNY March 23, 2005
Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
HOT SHOTS PART DEUX is an admirable sequel to the hilarious HOT SHOTS. Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino and Lloyd Bridges return from the original, but their characters have different histories in this one, which doesn't really make much sense in a sequel, but hey, who's complaining? It's a fun-filled movie filled with some excellent sight gags, some off the cuff dialogue and the wonderful background gags you might not see if you're paying too much attention to the movie. Both a cinematic and political spoof, Sheen shines in his reprisal of Topper Harley in his buffed Rambo body; Golino and Brenda Bakke keep the hormones bubbling in their effectively sexy and funny performances. The Sadam Hussein spoof is hilarious, with his lisp and his Americanized habits. Check out the different foods he keeps in his cupboard. The T-2 "morphing" sequence has hilarious results too. Bridges as usual steals most of his scenes, and Richard Crenna effectively spoofs his own RAMBO character. I didn't think this one sustained its frenetic pace as well as the original, but it still made me howl with laughter, so it's definitely worth viewing.
Funniest Movie Yet!!! January 27, 2005
Dr. Loomis (Haddonfield)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This movie has got to be one of the greatest sequels yet. Its even better than the original. I would recommend this to anyone who likes to laugh through a entire movie.
 More than one of the most funniest movies ever! October 15, 2004
WTA (New England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just loaned my DVD of this to a friend and she raved about it for days. I hadn't seen it in a few years and nearly injured myself laughing. An extremely smart flick with the perfect mix of nonsense, slapstick, and some of the best contemporary political satire one could hope for. Post Gulf War and pre 9/11 but still deeply relevant in its take on our continuing idiotic confrontation of two absolutely ridiculous cultures. No one is spared and that's the way it should be. A perfect film for those who realize the whole planet's turned into one big looney bin. This is in my top ten of all-time great satires!
Best Movie Ever October 11, 2004
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This movie is one of the funniest movies of all time. Even though this movie is sort of old, it is a better perody than any of the 'scary movie' movies. There is not any sexual content or a lot of profanity like those movies. They put so many good movies in like Star Wars and Rambo and others like that. How can you get any better than that.
Rare: A Sequel That Outshines The Original! October 8, 2004
Dumb Ox (Manassas, VA United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Hot Shots: Part Deux! is an amazing rarity---a sequel that's actually superior to the first movie. (Not that Hot Shots! was bad; it was quite funny and enjoyable in its own right.) Like the second Star Trek film, this sequel gels all of the good elements from its predecessor and discards whatever didn't quite click. In this case, the supporting cast made the movie even more than Charlie Sheen as its troubled hero Topper Harley. Returning are the late great Lloyd Bridges, this time as the president, and Valeria Golino as the lovely Ramada. Joining Topper are his former CO (Richard Crenna), a no-nonsense tough-guy soldier (Miguel Ferrer), a cool blonde CIA operative (Brenda Bakke) and Ramada's hapless yet scornful spouse (the wretchedly hilarious Rowan Atkinson).
Abandoned for no apparent reason by Ramada, Topper seeks inner peace at an Asian monastery, kicking the crap out of whoever steps into the fighting arena with him. His former CO finds him and asks Harley to go on a mission to find the men who went to find the men who were sent to find the men---you get the idea. In a filmed spoof of both other films (Rambo, Terminator II) and real-life events (President George the elder Bush's unfortunate vomiting into the lap of a Japanese official), Hot Shots Deux is funny, fresh and at times even more insane than a Leslie Neilsen movie, without the tendency to bog down that usually plagues this type of sight comedy.
Sheen, of course, deserves plenty of credit for the movie's success, for he breathes life into the potentially cardboard lead role. Crenna does an excellent if off-the-wall reprise of his colonel character from Rambo. Bridges is sickeningly funny as the semi-lunatic president who's had more parts replaced than a '71 Volkswagen and may be a couple cards shy of a full deck. Gorgeous Golino and beautiful Bakke duke it out---literally, in an homage to American Gladiator. Ferrer, not known for comedic parts, is deadpan, Joe-Friday hilarious as the hard-bitten Harbinger, especially when he goes to pieces during a battle. Atkinson is acerbic and despicable as Ramada's self-absorbed and undeserving husband. Toss into this mix a dead ringer for Saddam Hussein (with a lisp!), and the result is one crazy ride, almost as insane as the one Topper endures with the CIA blonde on a squeaky bed. Some of the humor is risque but nothing is flat-out offensive; it's not a movie for young children, but teens and adults alike should enjoy it very much.
In summary, this is that rare sequel that stepped well beyond the confines of its previous version, and was much funnier. Highly recommended for an hour and twenty-eight minutes of viewing pleasure.
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