Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy starring Charlie Sheen and Lloyd Bridges (father of Jeff Bridges) and it's just an insane and hilarious movie and if you loved The Naked Gun 2 that was released that same year you're going to love this film as well it's basically a parody of Top Gun but a really good one and not some disrespectful mess like the ones we're seeing at this age and day. This also might have one of Sheen's best perfomances to date as well definitely a movie that you're going to love in the end and laugh alot.

Here's the basic formula for dissecting this film: If "Airplane" spoofed a single film (in this case "Top Gun") instead of an entire genre (disaster films), you'd get "Hot Shots".For a basic plot summary, "Hot Shots" basically spoofs the movie "Top Gun" with any and all types of sight gags included. Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, and Lloyd Bridges provide the starring roles, and are all hilarious in every scene they carry.For some people, this type of humor is childish and won't elicit much more than a simple chuckle. For others (myself included), though, the sight gags and hilarious physical comedy will have you in tears of laughter. The chemistry between Sheen and Golino is incredible, Elwes is at his maniacal best, while Bridges basically steals the show as the hilarious old general who always seems to save the day in the end.This is a film that is kind of hard to explain in print. You really just need to sit down and watch it to determine if it is the right kind of comedy for you. You'll know within the first few minutes.

Jim Abrahams, the director and co-writer of this film, is known for his completely wacky comedic adventures featuring antihero protagonists and absolutely stereotypical characters and villains, with notably the Airplane or Naked Gun series.Here, the theme is military, the lead is a young Charlie Sheen, and it's just about what one would expect out of these converging elements. Some parts are really funny, where the absurd is taken to a point made necessary to laugh, but mostly there's a lot of very forgettable filler, and the plot is obviously extremely thin, not that this would constitute a flaw for this sort of film but we're really not given too much else and have to settle for the on screen fun from scene to scene which there just isn't masses of.All in all it's alright, something of a fun watch, better than other similar efforts gone awry.

In the line of Airplane, Naked Gun and the Files of the Police Squad, Hot Shots is one of those films that you can watch again and again and see extra jokes that you hadn't noticed before. There are great "set piece" jokes but also the humour that comes from knowing the in-joke and in this film that is mainly at the expense of Top Gun.Charlie Sheen sizzles in this film, and is at his comedic best, and John Cryer (also of Two and Half Men fame) is very good, but it is Lloyd Bridges that steals the show in every scene he's in. Love this film, I've seen it so many times but still giggle at all the silliness, and am still seeing new things. It's a nineties classic comedy. The fridge contents bedroom scene is one of the funniest pieces of film ever.Enjoyable, fun, funny and brilliantly clever, though of course not original as it's more or less one long spoof. Never mind though!