| Hot Shots! Part Deux | |
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| Directed by | Jim Abrahams |
| Produced by | Bill Badalato Pat Proft |
| Written by | Jim Abrahams Pat Proft |
| Starring | Charlie Sheen Lloyd Bridges Valeria Golino Richard Crenna Brenda Bakke Miguel Ferrer Ryan Stiles Rowan Atkinson Jerry Haleva |
| Music by | Basil Poledouris |
| Editing by | Malcolm Campbell |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | May 21, 1993 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000 |
| Box office | $133,752,825 [1] |
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.
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A rescue team invades Saddam Hussein'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 Rabinowitz (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 lightsabers 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.
Reviews for Hot Shots! Part Deux were generally favorable, although not to the extent of its predecessor.[2][3] The film became a financial success at the box office in 1993, grossing over $130 million worldwide.[4]
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 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).[5]
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