This week, Oz and Curtis strap into their jets, oil up their Abrahams-Zucker-Sheen humor receptors, and dive into Hot Shots! — the Top Gun spoof that blends Iron Eagle melodrama, Airplane!-style sight gags, Charlie Sheen eyebrow acting, and a surprising amount of fried breakfast foods. It’s ’90s parody cinema at its most chaotic, uneven, and delightfully dumb.
The hosts break down:
• A Top Gun knockoff built on a plot so thin you could mail it without a stamp — sabotage the jets so the Navy buys the new jets. Boom. Plot done. • Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley, a man haunted by trauma, daddy issues, and a hairless dog that everyone keeps sitting on. • Lloyd Bridges stealing the movie by simply being Lloyd Bridges — yelling, falling, mishearing, and eating his own earplugs. • A love triangle between Harley, Ramada, and Kent Gregory, powered entirely by ’90s chemistry, lounge singing, and belly-egg breakfast prep. • All the bits that still land: sitting on the same tiny dog, the Las Vegas crash, the buffalo, the Rambo teepee, the Amelia/Paula Abdul missile slap… and all the bits that absolutely do not.
Final Verdict:
Oz — 52 Slices of Belly Bacon Curtis — 57 Exclamation Points
Next week: The rhyming theme goes prestige. Tarantino. Swords. Vengeance. The Crazy 88s. That anime flashback. We’re watching Kill Bill: Volume 1 — easily the “best film of the month,” as the guys say.
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