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Hot Shots! Part Deux
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
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	May 21, 1993
Running time	86 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Hot Shots!
IMDb profile

Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 comedy spoof film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots!

Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film again stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva.

Bob Vila, Gregory Sierra, and Martin Sheen have cameo roles.

Abrahams and Pat Proft were the writers of the screenplay. Members of both men's families have roles as extras.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Parodies 3 Mockumentary promotion 4 External link

Topper Harley is persuaded to come out of retirement again—this time as a parody of Rambo—to lead a rescue team in Iraq, who are being sent in to rescue a previous rescue team. While there, he meets his former love Ramada (Golino), whose husband Dexter (Atkinson) is being held captive by Saddam Hussein (Haleva). There follows much fighting and bloodshed as they try and rescue Dexter while the incompetent President (Bridges) aims to get personal revenge on Saddam.

The film parodies action movies such as Rambo: First Blood Part II, Apocalypse Now, Predator, Missing In Action, and Commando, with Richard Crenna's character acting as an homage to his own roles in the Rambo movies. It makes references to several "syndromes" or cliché plot devices common in action movies, including (but not limited to) the Stormtrooper Effect.

It also takes shots at, among other things, Our Miss Brooks, Star Wars, Kickboxer, Karate Kid, Lady and the Tramp, Casablanca, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Looney Tunes, No Way Out, Basic Instinct, Platoon, The Guns of Navarone, The Wizard of Oz,The Godfather, RoboCop, American Gladiators, and the Energizer adverts.

A good indicator of its intent to spoof action movies as a whole can be shown in a highly intense firefight scene, where a little counter tallies up all the bad guys killed as the scene goes on. It starts to indicate that it is bloodier than the RoboCop and Total Recall films, until the counter finally stops tallying kills and text flashes "bloodiest movie ever" across the bottom of the screen despite that no blood was shown.

Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen, makes a cameo, parodying his role in Apocalypse Now and referring to Wall Street in which they both starred.

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, Martin Sheen). [1]

• Hot Shots! Part Deux at the Internet Movie Database