Product: Hot Shots! [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 5.0
BUMBLING BRIDGES
As in all Jim Abrahams movies, HOT SHOTS milks the movie pool for jokes of all kinds...from TOP GUN to GONE WITH THE WIND; SUPERMAN to DANCES WITH WOLVES; THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS to ROCKY. It all works; it's zany, unsaturated hilarity all the way. Charlie Sheen stars as a rogue pilot whose father's tainted past has haunted him as well; Valeria Golino is hilarious in the scenes where her navel and stomach set new standards for erroneous zoning; Cary Elwes is properly smug as the handsome but not too bright hero; Lloyd Bridges is absolutely wonderful as the klutzy, remade admiral. Usual good guy Efrem Zimbalist Jr. even shows up as the bad guy in this one. There are the patented sight gags, particularly the ones going on in the background that make this movie one you could watch over and over and still not see them all. It joins THE NAKED GUN and AIRPLANE movies in the honor roll of zany spoofs.