HOT SNOTS...PART 2

HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX (1993)
dir: Jim Abrahams

HOT SNOTS PAS DE DEUX MENAGE A TROIS AH, THE HELL WITH IT... PART 2
Cracked #285, November 1993
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin

Weird for them to do a parody with the first Hot Shots, which was a spoof of Top Gun, but it's also weird for a parody to have a sequel, which was a parody of the Rambo franchise and action movies in general. They somehow managed to give it fewer jokes than it had.

Tug Benson (Lloyd Bridges), senile former admiral, is now President and needs Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) for a secret mission to kill Saddam Hussein. Harley is now living in Thailand.

Col. Denton Walters (Richard Crenna) and Michelle Rodham Huddleston (Brenda Bakke) have tracked him down, but he doesn't want to go back because it reminds him of his romance with Dr. Ramada Rodham Hayman (Valeria Golino). In a sexist joke, all the women have the middle name "Rodham". They were making fun of it back then too.* There is a flashback parodying Lady and the Tramp. Topper catches up with Pres. Benson at a dinner with the Japanese prime minister, which parodies the news story of how George H.W. Bush threw up on the Prime Minister in real life.

They don't use the scene where Topper and Michelle make out in a limousine the night before his mission, which is a parody of No Way Out (see below).

The soldiers land in Iraq and Topper meets Ramada again, now an intelligence officer.

The Casablanca reference is also a reference to the Diet Pepsi commercials with Ray Charles.

Topper is believed to be missing and Benson goes to rescue him personally. They make references to Sea Hunt and Free Willy. The hostages they rescue are Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal, Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

They leave out how Benson sprays Saddam Hussein and his dog with a fire extinguisher, causing them to freeze and then shatter (parodying Terminator 2) and when the pieces thaw they end up combining so Saddam now has dog parts. There are scenes with Rowan Atkinson as Dr. Ramada's former husband, which makes it less funny since what made Airplane! funny is that it didn't have comic actors**.

*This isn't a defense of her. I took a long shower after voting for her in 2016. Just a defense of women keeping their last names. That's not virtue signaling, either. It's just annoying having to remember something different about someone from when I met them.
**This was written and directed by one of Airplane's three writer/directors, so he should have known better.