The spoof-comedy well was starting to run dry by the time Airplane! director Jim Abrahams made the first Hot Shots!, but there's still more than enough to enjoy in both movies. Charlie Sheen and Lloyd Bridges stand out as the particularly game stars playing it straight and perfectly willing to send themselves up. Top Gun and Rambo are the prime targets, but no genre is safe from spoofery. Both movies fire scattergun gags at the screen, and a good portion hit their targets.
DVD Extras:
There are no extras. They were shot off in `Nam and replaced by a trailer and three miles of hemp. So the clock is reset and we return to the olden days, when discs came loaded with nothing more than the film (albeit with a clear pause function perfect for those throwaway background gags). No behind-the-scenes material? No commentary? Decidedly poor.
