Hot Shots! Part Deux

“Rambo” parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.

• Director:Jim Abrahams
• Genre:Action / Comedy / War
• Runtime:81 minutes

Cast

Charlie Sheen : Topper Harley
Lloyd Bridges : President Thomas ‘Tug’ Benson
Valeria Golino : Ramada Rodham Hayman
Richard Crenna : Col. Denton Walters
Brenda Bakke : Michelle Rodham Huddleston

At the beginning of the film, a rescue team invades Saddam Hussein’s palace to rescue a group of hostages. But things go wrong when they are ambushed by Iraqi guards who open fire. While the gunfight ensues, Saddam is awakened, with his blindfold on, and starts shooting blindly all around the interior of his palace. The rescue team is captured and subdued just before Saddam runs out of his palace screaming and shooting wildly into the air and falling into the fountain.

Since his last adventure, Topper Harley (Sheen) has retired from the Navy and has become a Buddhist in a small Buddhist village in the wilderness. Colonel Walters (Crenna) and Michelle Huddleston (Bakke), CIA, arrive and watch a muscular Topper fight in a Muay Thai competition (a spoof of the Rambo III opening scene) in a hilarious sequence which results in the crooked bookmaker’s comical defeat. After Topper’s victory, the Colonel and Michelle persuade Topper to come out of retirement in order to rescue a rescue party who went in to rescue a rescue party who are being held as hostages in Iraq. The leader of the Iraqi forces is, of course, Saddam Hussein (Haleva).

At first Topper refuses, but when another rescue mission led by Walters also goes awry, he finally agrees and parachutes into an Iraqi jungle with Harbinger (Ferrer), Williams (Colyar) and Rabbinowitz (Stiles), close to the heavily guarded hostage camp. They all land successfully, except for Topper, who gets snagged in a tree. He soon frees himself with his patented all-purpose “Swiss Army” Bowie knife (a running joke throughout the film). Their contact turns out to be Topper’s former love, Ramada (Golino), who guides them to an abandoned fishing boat that she had prepared for their transportation, with fishermen’s clothes in the wheelhouse. She and Topper briefly reminisce, and Ramada explains that she was married before she ever met Topper, but could not tell him about her husband, Dexter (Atkinson), for complicated reasons. She also informs him that Dexter is one of the captives being held by Saddam. Read more

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