Hot Shots! - Movie review #jpmn

• Hot Shots! (1991) -- Decidedly silly endeavor packed with consistent jokes, 7/10. WATCH full episodes of Movie Night -- ****** TWEET a review with the #JPMN hashtag, and have it featured! ~~ Movie Night Reviews ~~ Your host, and film critic Jonathan Paula reviews everything from opening day releases, recent DVDs, upcoming trailers, and classics from years past. Each "Quick Review" is an excerpt from a full episode, which airs on the Jogwheel channel every week. ~~ Watch More Reviews ~~ Browse By Year ----- ****** Browse By Rating --- ****** Trailer Reviews ------- ****** ~~ Other Channels ~~ Jogwheel (Main channel) --- ****** Jon's World (2nd channel) -- ****** The Microwave Show --------- ****** uStream Live Shows ---------- ****** ~~ Social Media & Merch ~~ Twitter ---------------------------- ****** Facebook ----------------------- ****** Instagram ----------------------- ****** Patreon -------------------------- ****** Letterboxd ---------------------- ****** T-Shirts -------------------------- ****** ~~ Technical Credits ~~ Created by ------ Jonathan Paula Camera ---------- Panasonic HMC-150 Microphone ----- Sennheiser ME 66 Software --------- Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 Computer ------- ****** • Jogwheel Productions © 2014 • ~~ Review Script ~~ The self-proclaimed "mother of all movies" was released in August of 1991 by director Jim Abrahams, who previously found success with "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series. The $26-million dollar comedy spoof did remarkably well at the box office, earning over $150 million in profit. The loosely connected plot follows Charlie Sheen as an ace fighter pilot who must overcome his troubled past to save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufactures. With all of his headlines recently, it's easy to forget that Sheen was once an incredibly talented actor with impeccable timing and delivery: it's his charisma that makes this picture fly so effortlessly. Alongside him is Cary Elwes, Valerina Golino, Kevin Dunn, and his future "Two And A Half Men" co-star, Jon Cryer. They're all plenty capable of handling the picture's copious amounts of verbal pans and pratfalls - but it's the age aging Lloyd Bridges as a respected Navy Admiral who positively steals the show. His overtly clueless behavior is juxtaposed against headstrong stubbornness, as he fires up his young cadets by sharing, "I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life." It's the look in his eyes, and the fact that he comes to this realization mid-line that makes this particular bit of dialogue so great. An obvious send-up of the 1986 fighter-pilot classic, "Top Gun"... this PG-13 rated romp packs in nearly a dozen sight gags even before the opening credits finish. Another sequence has "Home Improvement"'s William O'Leary gleefully, almost excessively reminding his sweetheart about all the wonderful things they'll get to do together as soon as he returns from a dangerous mission. Of course, the very next scene has him almost immediately shot down and killed. Not all of the gags work however, and a few sequences drag on a bit too long, but with any good "shotgun approach", there's plenty more hits than misses. The extremely short 84-minute runtime does ensure there's no downtime between these mile-a-minute jokes, with Sylvester Levay's score filling in the gaps with appropriate, electric-guitar themed music. Abrahams lends further realism to the production by filling the 16:9 frame with a healthy amount of Naval stock-footage while also utilizing a wooden deck built on a cliff overlooking the ocean that convincingly function as the film's aircraft carrier. Although mostly unnecessary, a sequel released two years later, has plenty of fantastic moments of its own - and is definitely worth watching too. For all fans of the goofier spoof pictures made famous in the 1980's, this is a worthy entry that should deliver the laughs on multiple viewings, even if it is as shallow as a shot glass. "Hot Shots!" is a decidedly silly endeavor packed with consistent jokes. ~

The self-proclaimed "mother of all movies" was released in August of 1991 by director Jim Abrahams, who previously found success with "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series. The $26-million dollar comedy spoof did remarkably well at the box office, earning over $150 million in profit. The loosely connected plot follows Charlie Sheen as an ace fighter pilot who must overcome his troubled past to save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufactures. With all of his headlines recently, it's easy to forget that Sheen was once an incredibly talented actor with impeccable timing and delivery: it's his charisma that makes this picture fly so effortlessly. Alongside him is Cary Elwes, Valerina Golino, Kevin Dunn, and his future "Two And A Half Men" co-star, Jon Cryer. They're all plenty capable of handling the picture's copious amounts of verbal pans and pratfalls - but it's the age aging Lloyd Bridges as a respected Navy Admiral who positively steals the show. His overtly clueless behavior is juxtaposed against headstrong stubbornness, as he fires up his young cadets by sharing, "I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life." It's the look in his eyes, and the fact that he comes to this realization mid-line that makes this particular bit of dialogue so great. An obvious send-up of the 1986 fighter-pilot classic, "Top Gun"... this PG-13 rated romp packs in nearly a dozen sight gags even before the opening credits finish. Another sequence has "Home Improvement"'s William O'Leary gleefully, almost excessively reminding his sweetheart about all the wonderful things they'll get to do together as soon as he returns from a dangerous mission. Of course, the very next scene has him almost immediately shot down and killed. Not all of the gags work however, and a few sequences drag on a bit too long, but with any good "shotgun approach", there's plenty more hits than misses. The extremely short 84-minute runtime does ensure there's no downtime between these mile-a-minute jokes, with Sylvester Levay's score filling in the gaps with appropriate, electric-guitar themed music. Abrahams lends further realism to the production by filling the 16:9 frame with a healthy amount of Naval stock-footage while also utilizing a wooden deck built on a cliff overlooking the ocean that convincingly function as the film's aircraft carrier. Although mostly unnecessary, a sequel released two years later, has plenty of fantastic moments of its own - and is definitely worth watching too. For all fans of the goofier spoof pictures made famous in the 1980's, this is a worthy entry that should deliver the laughs on multiple viewings, even if it is as shallow as a shot glass. "Hot Shots!" is a decidedly silly endeavor packed with consistent jokes.