If the nepotism train is going to continue further down the tracks, perhaps it's high time one of Charlie Sheen's five children (or really anyone else) take the torch from him. The passing-of-the-torch moment in Hot Shots: Part Deux can now be a funny reference to the fact that so many celebrities are children of famous actors (crudely dubbed "Nepo Babies," the likes of Nicolas Cage, Josh Brolin, Zoë Kravitz, and more have all recently been noticed for their silver spoon roots).
Perhaps another layer of this father-son cameo meta-joke in the film is the fact that waves of Twitter users and audiences members are only now realizing that Hollywood is made up of wall-to-wall nepotism. (Turning a blind eye to political correctness), Hot Shots 2 hasn't aged a second.
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For a movie that will be 30 years old next year, watching Hot Shots: Part Deux now reveals a feature that is still so sharp and prepared to spoof a genre that took itself so seriously. The original Hot Shots movie helped spur this on and this sequel perfected it, capitalizing on the moment by showing how inherently ridiculous many action flicks were. Audiences wanted to see their action heroes soften up, so Schwarzenegger went from fighting in Predator to Christmas shopping in Jingle All the Way. Arnold Schwarzenegger would educate children in Kindergarten Cop, Bruce Willis would wholly inhabit a child in Look Who's Talking Too (both from 1990), and the aforementioned Stallone would headline Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot in 1992 (just over a year before Hot Shots: Part Deux was released). Meanwhile, the action stars of the 1980s whose macho movies and on-screen bravado had made the existence of Hot Shots: Part Deux a reality were, by the early '90s, all trying their hands at cloying comedies to try and broaden their own images. For cinephiles, it's a joke that not only gives a nice tip of the cap to its actors, but also a big middle finger to the fully erect action genre of the time that refused to have fun with itself, and just wanted to stare at its own biceps in the mirror. The fact that neither Platoon nor Apocalypse Now (both movies being the Sheen's biggest respective critical hits) are even mentioned effectively makes them null and void to the Hot Shots universe, a universe that instead chooses to recognize the much dryer number-crunching of Wall Street. Related: Airplane! and Naked Gun Director Takes a Shot at Cancel Culture Going one more further still (are we now breaking the fifth wall?), this cameo is a joke that slyly loves cinema.
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This is not a recommendation for that movie.Going one further and recognizing that this movie is directly spoofing Sylvester Stallone's Rambo (a series that delights in its own war zones), then we realize Abrahams has managed to mock the entirety of the action and war movie genres as a whole it's magic.
I think this movie also has some “Navy SEALS” references (also starring Charlie Sheen). Would be worth watching Scream, if you want to also watch Scary Movie. It very, very rapidly descend into spoof spoofing of spoofs and just plain bad movies and comedies. "Kiss me like you've never kissed me before" and "I loved you in Wall Street" are two great bits in an otherwise very mediocre comedy. That was a series in which Lloyd Bridges played a scuba diver who narrated the underwater scenes as he did in Hot Shots Part Deux. I'm old so I'm probably the only person who got the reference to "Sea Hunt". Thanks George, i have watch this movie over 50 times but now i finaly get the joke "they have sworn abstinence like their fathers and their fathers before" )īut I was surprised that you didn't recognize american gladiators or the battery bunny commertial.i am getting old^^ And PLEASE watch Dracula: Dead And Loving It for another amazing Mel Brooks spoof.
If you're looking for a Rowan Atkinson movie to watch, give Johnny English a shot. They eventually churned out shit sequels and zero laugh movies that killed the genre. Fun fact: the Wayans family are behind both DBAMTSCWDYJITH and SM, but two writers who stole their idea to get their own version of a scary movie spoof film made were added to the writing credits of Scary Movie. 'Top Secret' and the first 'Scary Movie' are also good, but the latter was so successful it spawned numerous, horrible sequels, and eventually the downfall of the genre. 'Not Another Teen Movie' (spoofing 80's and 90's teen/romantic comedies, John Hughes movies, etc.) and 'Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood' (spoofing 90's 'hood movies). Watching George attempt to pronounce my name is always my favorite part.
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