Hot Shots!

A canon of American crazy comedy. It doesn't only reflect on what is good for it (that which is the most spectacular), but it takes the war film/agitation genre as a whole and reveals its stupidity in complete nudity. Some gags (visual or verbal) are simply unforgettable. So: apt, funny, successful. A clear leader in its field. Some flyers have more than just steel penises... (18/04/2004)

Hot Shots has been, and still is one of my favorite parodies. It’s true that some scenes didn’t age very well and looked rather lame, but I myself have undergone a far more unflattering transformation during that time and Jim Abrahams never criticized me either, so I’m sticking with five stars. I can honestly say I had a great time yet again. (04/01/2018)

Hot Shots! (not Top Gun, that's nonsense, but who could've known at that time :D) is quite an amusing parody of Top Gun. It's definitely one of the best parodies of that time, but nowadays I prefer Leslie Nielsen. Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley is excellent, though. Still, I never expected this movie to receive such high ratings and become such a classic, but as a Sunday afternoon comedy, it's fantastic. EDIT. With each rewatch, it ages like fine wine, especially after a cinema screening...95%...[8.6.2020_Moviezone Kino Aero_Prague] (08/05/2013)

A parody from the old days when the genre was not only based on copied scenes of more famous colleagues and a lot of banging heads and farting... (23/07/2007)

A legendary parody that completely captivated me even as a little boy, and even today I realize that something like this simply entertains me. It's crazy, but it's incredibly graceful at the same time. No scatological humor, no unnecessarily screaming characters, just a great parody of "Top Gun" with an even greater Charlie Sheen, who was simply born for parodies. True, I always preferred the sequel, but this is great too. (31/10/2013)