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As one-third of the team that [[Airplane!|forever spoiled the airline disaster movie]], Abrahams takes the fighter pilot action movie and turns it into something a couple degrees off center, just enough to catch us off-guard. At first blush, it appears to be a serious action movie, but then the whole thing spirals off into chaos.
[[Charlie Sheen]] stars as Topper Harley, an ex-Navyman who left the armed services to [[Dances
''Hot Shots!'' was followed by a sequel, ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'', in 1993, which did for ''[[Rambo]]'' what the original did for ''[[Top Gun]]''. This time the story is a near perfect recreation of ''Rambo III'', where Topper has resigned himself to an Asian monk village. His commanding officer Colonel Walters arrives to recruit him for a rescue mission, which he refuses. When Walters is captured on the following rescue attempt, Topper agrees to go in and rescue everyone.
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* [[Aerial Canyon Chase]]: Charlie Sheen's character lures enemies into a canyon and Top Gunning them by stepping on the brakes. Yes, he's piloting an airplane.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: [[Played for Laughs]]. Admiral Benson has apparently fought in every major battle of the past century or two, including Little Big Horn... or was it Wounded Knee?
* [[As Long
** All the Iraqi fighter pilots names and dialogue is just the names of Middle Eastern dishes.
** The dialogue between Topper and his Native American friend is a bunch of gibberish (Minnesota towns and cities with Indian names) with some occasional English parsed in.
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* [[Destructo-Nookie]]: Ramada ends up in an imprint on her bed one morning.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] : "[[Top Gun|Your ego is writing cheques your body can't cash]]"
* [[Dodge
* [[Excited Show Title]]
* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: To Harley's credit, the little velvet case he keeps them in is nice...
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* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: If that shirt were any redder, it would be outside the visible light spectrum...
* [[Fish Eye Lens]]: A character is afflicted with "Walleye Vision" that makes the world appear this way. He's a ''pilot''. Later on he gets corrective glasses... which are tiny aquariums with live fish in them, making them a literal example of this trope.
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Ties in with [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] (see below). Also, while delivering {{spoiler|Dead Meat's}} eulogy, Benson starts to list off characters from ''[[
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Another ZAZ trademark. These include:
** Troop drills involving can-can dancing.
** A man serving as the blood donor for another character slowly deflating.
* [[Fun
** When the subtitles say the characters are saying the word "English", the word they're actually saying is "Americanese".
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: "I'm in a hospital! What could go wrong?" Cut to Dead Meat's funeral.
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{{quote| "God, I love a good funeral!"}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: So many, but unlike some recent movies, the shout outs still include jokes... okay mostly.
* [[Sitting Sexy
* [[Spicy Latina]]: Ramada. Not Spanish, but damn close.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Mocked with Dead Meat, who meets his beautiful wife on the tarmac, carries the [[Who Shot JFK?|critical evidence about JFK in his pocket]], came up with a solution for global warming, and tries to sign a life insurance policy before climbing in the cockpit... but his pen is out of ink. Oh, well, there'll be plenty of time for that later. His last words are, "I'm in a hospital! What could go wrong?" [[Answer Cut|Hard cut]] to his funeral...
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** Richard Crenna portrays a parody of his ''Rambo'' character, named after his ''[[Our Miss Brooks]]'' character.
* [[Aside Glance]]: After Ramada tells Topper how she envisions their potential relationship.
* [[As Long
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Saddam Hussein can melt down and reconstitute himself like the [[The Terminator|T-1000]].
** Hussein and President Benson duel with lightsabers.
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* [[Cardboard Prison]]: One of the prisoners slips completely through the bars to grab the keys to unlock his door.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Setting Colonel Walters as the analogue to Colonel Trautman from the Rambo movies is helped by being played by the same actor
* [[Character
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: President Benson.
* [[Credits Gag]]: Many of them in the closing credits, including [[All You Need to Know About The Crying Game]].
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* [[Double Entendre]]: "You give Uncle Topper a nice big blow."
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Not-Saddam dual-wields machine pistols with [[Bottomless Magazines]] at the beginning of the move as he blindly rampages through the front yard.
* [[Distracted
* [[Electric Torture]]: Parodied by having it cause a [[Big Blackout]] and pop popcorn inside the guy's shirt.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Topper and a random Iraqi soldier team up to take on the Energizer Bunny.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Fight Clubbing]]: A hilarious version.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with the monk village: "These men have lived their lives in strict celibacy, just like their fathers and grandfathers before them."
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** Monks taking turns to impress the first girl they have seen in centuries.
** The governor of Nebraska making a public apology for his state being so flat.
** Whenever the camera pans across during Topper and Romada's Italian dinner, we see another table, where [[The Godfather
* [[Groin Attack]]: ''Everyone'' cringes in pain... and walnuts come out of the guys mouth!
* [[Handwraps of Awesome]]: Topper Harley wears these in his Dim Sum match early in the movie.
* [[Helium Speech]]: Occurs after the president takes helium instead of oxygen to go diving.
* [[History Marches On]]: The movie was released in 1993, and its context to modern culture has been amazingly consistent since. Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003 and was executed in 2006. Films with political figures as the central villain (even parodies) tend to age very fast, but this movie stayed relevant for 13 YEARS after release. Of course, Saddam is shown watching ''[[
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Topper extends the antenna of a handphone to fence with Saddam. Walters later uses a fly swatter to knock out a guard, having quickly selected it from a pile of weapons including a several handguns, knives, and grenades.
** After running out of ammo because the guard kept moving (picking up coins, etc) Topper resorts to shooting him with a chicken.
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* [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]]: Multiple examples; the commando team is stymied by a wooden fence whose lock they can't blow, because "It's not our property." Earlier, Topper has to use a grappling hook and several seconds of difficult climbing to get over a knee height stone fence; even more hilarious, not five feet away is a path leading around the fence.
** One of the POW's is imprisoned with twist ties and later the chinese finger trap. Another prisoner can't run because they've tied his shoelaces together.
* [[I Will Fight No More Forever]]: Harbinger undergoes a [[Ten
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: The [[Energizer Bunny]] appears in one scene, only it's blue and not quite a rabbit. Still recognizable, and the voiceover is there.
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: The trailer, a parody of the teaser for ''[[Rambo]]: First Blood Part II'', contains special shoot footage of [[Charlie Sheen]] suiting up as the film's Rambo parody. Also, an alternate version of the first scene in the White House is included.
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* [[Out of the Inferno]]: Parodied.
{{quote| '''President Tug Benson:''' "My skin's made of asbestos. Tanning parlor accident at Dien Bien Phu."}}
* [[Parachute in
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: The limo driver in the ''[[No Way Out]]'' scene.
* [[Pepper Sneeze]]: While Topper Harley is trying to get some keys he spills some pepper. A small mouse wanders by, sniffs the pepper, and lets out a barely audible, high-pitched sneeze.
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* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Invoked. The heroes apparently arrive at base in a toy helicopter, which an officer immediately orders removed before someone trips on it.
* [[Spy Speak]]: Parodied. The other guy has no clue what he's talking about.
* [[Stalker
* [[Stealth Pun]]/[[Late to The Punchline]]: {{spoiler|THE MOLE HAS A MOLE}}, also the final action takes place on the border of Iraq and A Hard Place.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Harley has the coolest knife ''ever''.
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