Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Eric Stevenson Was this the last great spoof movie ever made? I admit that it's not as good as "Airplane!" or "Naked Gun", but it's still platinum compared to today's parody movies. I haven't seen the first one, but I was recommended to this by Doug Walker. This film is really funny and just keeps giving out joke after joke, most of which hit bullseyes. It's probably Charlie Sheen at his funniest. I realize how topical these spoof movies were.One of my favorite jokes is when they show a map of a place literally located between Iraq and "A Hard Place". My favorite is probably when we see three guys jump out of a plane. The first says, "Geronimo!", the second says, "Geronimo!" and the third IS Geronimo and says, "Me!". The best thing is probably how Sheen plays everything straight. There's a lot of random jokes, but they're actually funny unlike modern spoof movies. I wish stuff like this would come back, but at least there's still great comedies every now and then. ***1/2

John Brooks This is comedy at about the level it should be at. It's not everything to simply come up with a spoof concept, and throw in remote drone jokes in the film for about 1 1/2 hours, those jokes need to actually be FUNNY, and this here supplies funny moments throughout. It's inspired, it's got rhythm, and the surrealistic humor makes sense, rather than just being absurd notions with no real spirit like most such spoofs do.It's better than the first one, and if not for a subpar final act, the whole film stands well together and sustains a good level in the spoofing job.A good comedy. Worth one's time, if that person wants to merely laugh a bit for 1hr30. 6.5/10.

gwnightscream Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Brenda Bakke, Rowan Atkinson, Miguel Ferrer and Richard Crenna star in this 1993 comedy sequel. This installment obviously spoofs "Rambo" and pokes fun at other films like "Terminator 2," "Star Wars" and "Basic Instinct." Sheen returns as navy pilot, Topper who is sent on a mission to rescue war soldiers captured in Iraq. Golino also returns as Ramada as well as the late, Bridges as former Admiral, Tug Benson who is now a U.S. President. Bakke (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight) plays CIA operative, Michelle who gets involved with Topper, Atkinson (Mr. Bean) plays Ramada's ex-husband, Dexter who is one of the captured soldiers, Ferrer (Robocop) plays ex-soldier, Harbinger and the late, Crenna (First Blood) plays Colonel, Walters who recruits Topper for his mission, but also gets captured after attempting to rescue the soldiers. This is a good sequel, the cast is great and the scenes with Saddam Hussein (Jerry Haleva) are hilarious. I recommend this.

Scott LeBrun "Hot Shots! Part Deux" beats the odds to be pretty good, not just as spoofs go, but as spoof *sequels* go. Granted, it's not always very funny, but enough of the verbal and visual jokes work to make this solidly entertaining comedy fare, and a worthy sequel to the hilarious first movie. It goes about making fun of the corpse littered action escapism films of the 1980s, which of course were a genre just ripe for parody. Charlie Sheen returns as hero Topper Harley, now living in Thailand after getting his heart broken by Ramada (Valeria Golino). He's approached by the CIA to undertake a top secret mission in the Middle East where he must rescue the rescue team who went in to save the rescue team who tried to retrieve some hostages.Also returning from the first film are Lloyd Bridges, who once again is an absolute riot; somehow, his idiotic character Thomas "Tug" Benson has become the President of the United States. Jerry Haleva makes an encore appearance as Saddam Hussein, and gets more to do this time, including a climactic duel with Benson. New characters include those played by lovely Brenda Bakke, Richard Crenna (who gets to poke fun at his own "Rambo" series role), Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, Mitch Ryan, Ryan Stiles, Gregory Sierra, Andreas Katsulas, and Clyde Kusatsu. So there's a lot of familiar faces here, including some other famous faces in gag cameos. (The best one is by Sheen's dad Martin.) One of the brightest jokes is the "bloodiest movie ever" one; among the movies and shows parodied are "Basic Instinct", "No Way Out", "Lady and the Tramp", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", and Bridges' own series 'Sea Hunt', but mostly co-writer and director Jim Abrahams, an old hand at this sort of thing, keeps his focus on skewering the mindless macho action flick.Overall, this is a very enjoyable comedy, no matter if some of the humour is dated (such as referring to then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton). It manages to hold up pretty well on repeat viewings.And war is indeed fantastic.Eight out of 10.