HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX

'''Hot Shots! Part Deux''' is a 1993 comedy spoof film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy ''Hot Shots!''
Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film again stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva.
Bob Vila, Gregory Sierra, and Martin Sheen have cameo roles.
Abrahams and Pat Proft were the writers of the screenplay. Members of both men's families have roles as extras.

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Plot

Parodies

Mockumentary promotion

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Plot

Topper Harley is persuaded to come out of retirement again—this time as a parody of Rambo—to lead a rescue team in Iraq, who are being sent in to rescue a previous rescue team. While there, he meets his former love Ramada (Golino), whose husband Dexter (Atkinson) is being held captive by Saddam Hussein (Haleva). There follows much fighting and bloodshed as they try and rescue Dexter while the incompetent President (Bridges) aims to get personal revenge on Saddam.

Parodies

The film parodies action movies such as ''Rambo III'', ''Apocalypse Now'', ''Predator'', ''Missing In Action'', and ''Commando'', with Richard Crenna's character acting as an homage to his own roles in the ''Rambo'' movies. It makes references to several "syndromes" or cliché plot devices common in action movies, including (but not limited to) the ''Stormtrooper Effect''.
It also takes shots at, among other things, ''Our Miss Brooks'', ''Star Wars'', ''Kickboxer'', ''The Karate Kid'', ''Lady and the Tramp'', ''Casablanca'', '', ''Looney Tunes'', ''No Way Out'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''Platoon'', ''The Guns of Navarone'', ''The Wizard of Oz'',''The Godfather'', ''RoboCop'', ''American Gladiators'', '' and the Energizer Bunny.
Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen, makes a cameo, parodying his role in ''Apocalypse Now'' and referring to ''Wall Street'' in which they both starred.
When an Iraqi ship arrives to capture Harley and crew, we see that it is named ''The Behn Gazzara'', a reference to actor Ben Gazzara.

Mockumentary promotion

As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on Home Box Office. Entitled ''Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux -- A Filmmaker's Apology'', the mockumentary parodied , the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen). [1]

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