After the event, Michelle Huddleston seduces Topper in the backseat of her car and they return to her house to make love (a spoof of 'No Way Out').

He reconsiders the CIA's plea and arrives at the White House during a diplomatic dinner with the Japanese prime minister. Two weeks later, Topper learns that Colonel Walters has been captured during yet another botched hostage rescue. He refuses to help rescue the imprisoned soldiers, still troubled by the abandonment of his lover, Ramada Rodham Hayman (Valeria Golino). Presidential Military Advisor Colonel Denton Walters (Richard Crenna) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official Michelle Rodham Huddleston (Brenda Bakke) locate Topper in Thailand, fighting as a boxer and practicing Buddhism. Navy Admiral Thomas 'Tug' Benson (Lloyd Bridges), now the President of the United States, suspects the team is being sabotaged and decides to send retired Navy war hero Lieutenant Sean 'Topper' Harley (Charlie Sheen) to intervene. Because the mission has failed twice before, the eccentric and absent-minded former U.S. soldiers fail to assassinate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (Jerry Haleva) and are captured by Iraqi forces. As such, it can possibly be uncomfortable to watch Sheen in anything, but the 30-year-old Hot Shots sequel is brilliant comedy that's bigger than him, and deserves to be seen again, if only for its amazing cameo.In a covert government mission to rescue hostages from Operation Desert Storm, a group of U.S. The actor has recently been accused of stalking and threatening to kill his former fiancée, has been a staunch anti-vaxxer, has been accused of sexual assault (and allegedly raping Corey Haim) multiple times, and is perhaps most well-known these days for his embarrassing, drug-fueled public meltdown after Two and a Half Men. If the nepotism train is going to continue further down the tracks, perhaps it's high time one of Charlie Sheen's five children (or really anyone else) take the torch from him. The passing-of-the-torch moment in Hot Shots: Part Deux can now be a funny reference to the fact that so many celebrities are children of famous actors (crudely dubbed 'Nepo Babies,' the likes of Nicolas Cage, Josh Brolin, Zoë Kravitz, and more have all recently been noticed for their silver spoon roots). Perhaps another layer of this father-son cameo meta-joke in the film is the fact that waves of Twitter users and audiences members are only now realizing that Hollywood is made up of wall-to-wall nepotism. (Turning a blind eye to political correctness), Hot Shots 2 hasn't aged a second. For a movie that will be 30 years old next year, watching Hot Shots: Part Deux now reveals a feature that is still so sharp and prepared to spoof a genre that took itself so seriously.

The original Hot Shots movie helped spur this on and this sequel perfected it, capitalizing on the moment by showing how inherently ridiculous many action flicks were. Audiences wanted to see their action heroes soften up, so Schwarzenegger went from fighting in Predator to Christmas shopping in Jingle All the Way. Arnold Schwarzenegger would educate children in Kindergarten Cop, Bruce Willis would wholly inhabit a child in Look Who's Talking Too (both from 1990), and the aforementioned Stallone would headline Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot in 1992 (just over a year before Hot Shots: Part Deux was released). Meanwhile, the action stars of the 1980s whose macho movies and on-screen bravado had made the existence of Hot Shots: Part Deux a reality were, by the early '90s, all trying their hands at cloying comedies to try and broaden their own images. For cinephiles, it's a joke that not only gives a nice tip of the cap to its actors, but also a big middle finger to the fully erect action genre of the time that refused to have fun with itself, and just wanted to stare at its own biceps in the mirror.

The fact that neither Platoon nor Apocalypse Now (both movies being the Sheen's biggest respective critical hits) are even mentioned effectively makes them null and void to the Hot Shots universe, a universe that instead chooses to recognize the much dryer number-crunching of Wall Street. Related: Airplane! and Naked Gun Director Takes a Shot at Cancel Culture Going one more further still (are we now breaking the fifth wall?), this cameo is a joke that slyly loves cinema. Going one further and recognizing that this movie is directly spoofing Sylvester Stallone's Rambo (a series that delights in its own war zones), then we realize Abrahams has managed to mock the entirety of the action and war movie genres as a whole it's magic.

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