Movie references, sight gags, silly puns, and double entendres abound in Hot Shots! Part Deux,
Jim Abrahams' sequel to
Hot Shots -- only now the object of the skewering is the Stallone Rambo movies instead of
Top Gun.
Charlie Sheen returns as the lunk-headed Topper Harley, who has retreated to a Buddhist monastery after being dumped by Ramada Rodham Hayman (Valerie Golino). In this far-off retreat, the monks have "taken a vow of celibacy, just like their fathers and their fathers before them." But Topper bulks up and goes back into action when his superior officer, Colonel Denton Walters (
Richard Crenna) is captured by a Saddam Hussein look-alike, missing somewhere between "Iraq and a Hard Place." Topper charges into Iraq (after barreling through a Beverly Hills barbecue) along with sexy CIA operative Michelle Rodham Huddleston (
Brenda Bakke) in tow, his guns ablazing. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide