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By Jonathan Klotz
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Drama is easy: playing “How to Save Life” by LifeHouse over Montage, and you’ll make everyone sad. Comedy, now that’s difficult.
Hollywood has abandoned comedies over the last decade because it is impossible to keep up with a pop culture when what is funny continues to change every week, but a key part of having a laughter is to turn yourself into the joke. Over 30 years ago, Megastar Charlie Sheen A-List was not afraid to look stupid, and the result was Hot shots! and Hot shots! Divide twoA pair of parodies aimed square to the top gun and everyone else in Hollywood, eventually still wandering.
Hot shots! Sending Sheen, like Sean “Topper” Harley back to an active service to help train a new generation of pilots, in coping with his own PTSD and his father’s circular nightmare, Topper “Buzz”, abandoning his chopilot, “Mailman” Gregory (Ryan Stiles), to die at the hands of a hunter. 30 years before Top Gun: Maverick The son of a goose, Rooster, was introduced in Hot shots! If Cary Elwes played Mailmain’s son, Gregory’s “Sea -Sea”, who blames Topper for his father’s death through the transformational property. Describing the plot of the movie, because what is important is that the jokes, from playing words to Golwg Gags, does not fly faster than you can keep up.
Charlie Sheen is re -acting Tom Cruise’s famous motorcycle shot riding alongside a fighter jet, unless the road is filled with speed lumps. The mandatory love scene from the 90s between Topper and his therapist turns into him cooks breakfast on his stomach. When “Dead Meat” prepares to go up for the last training mission, his wife is there for him to sign his life insurance forms, but he says he will do it when he returns, and that whole -world warming thing, well, he thought of a solution.
Hot shots! Not sparing with its humor, and in 2025, it is a relief that film delights in being stupid from start to finish in each scene. Two years later Sheen was back with Hot shots! Divide twoThis time Topper is sent into Iraq to save prisoners of war in over -parody of Rambo franchise china featuring a sword fight against Saddam Hussein. It does not have the joke-per-minute ratio of the original, but it is full to the fullest with Gags Golwg, and the first 15 minutes still contain more jokes than modern comedies.
There is even one second records where Charlie Sheen undertakes a battalion of Iraqi troops, and the on -screen counter keeps track of body account, indicating when pass Robocop and Total recall. It is a cruel mockery of shooting out Hollywood, including the same stuntman dying several times, and it is impossible to imagine any of today’s action stars showing the willingness to look at this truth purposefully to have a laughter.
Both films also hits at the box office, back when successful comedies hit theaters every few months, Hot shots and Divide two Earned over $ 180 million and $ 130 million, respectively. Had it not been for success The naked gun Legacy sequence with Liam Neeson, there would be nothing this decade similar to the brass humor displayed through the hot shots! Movies.
If you want to re -live what it was when Hollywood knew how to take a joke, you can. Hot shots! and Hot shots! Divide two the new two on Netflix.
