Hot shots! The second attempt

Movie
German title	Hot shots! The second attempt
Original title	Hot shots! Part deux
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1993
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Jim Abrahams
script	Jim Abraham's ; Pat Proft
production	Bill Badalato
music	Basil Poledouris
camera	John R. Leonetti
cut	Malcolm Campbell
occupation
	Charlie Sheen : Sean "Topper" Harley; Lloyd Bridges : US President Thomas "Tug" Benson; Valeria Golino : Ramada Rodham Hayman; Richard Crenna : Colonel Denton Walters; Brenda Bakke : Michelle Rodham Huddleston; Miguel Ferrer : Commander Arvid Harbinger; Ryan Stiles : Rabinowitz; Michael Colyar : Williams; Rowan Atkinson : Dexter Hayman; Jerry Haleva : Saddam Hussein ; Martin Sheen : Benjamin L. Willard; Mitchell Ryan : Senator Gray Edwards; Tony Edwards : Driver; Andreas Katsulas : Rufshaad;
synchronization
chronology
	← Predecessor ; Hot Shots! - The mother of all films

Hot shots! The second attempt is a 1993 American parody by director Jim Abrahams and the sequel to the film Hot Shots! - The mother of all films from 1991.

action

A US special task force sneaked into Saddam Hussein's palace and a nearby prison camp in Iraq one night in order to eliminate Hussein and free soldiers captured in Operation Desert Storm . The mission fails and ends with the capture of the team. Then the viewer learns that this ruptured operation was the latest in a series of attempts for which the Iraqis were always carefully prepared; sabotage by a traitor is therefore suspected in the White House . Colonel Walters, in charge of the highest positions, remembers the retired war hero Topper Harley, who lives in a Thai monastery. He and CIA agent Michelle Huddelston go there immediately, but Harley has renounced war and cannot be persuaded to participate in the next planned mission.

It was only when Walters himself was captured during the next attempt at liberation and was shown on television for media coverage that Topper Harley decided to act. He goes to the White House and offers his services to Tug Benson, President of the United States . He meets Michelle again and spends the night with her, but he is still plagued by his memories of his old love Ramada, who suddenly disappeared from his life without an explanation.

The next morning Topper flies to the camp of the Liberation Command in Iraq, consisting of Commander Arvid Harbinger - the only man who escaped the Iraqi attack on the last job and consequently suspects the wanted traitor in Topper -, intelligence officer Williams and the explosives expert Rabinowitz. After the parachute jump into the hostile area, the team comes into contact with the local guide, who is supposed to escort the troops to the prison camp and, after removing the disguise, turns out to be the lost Ramada. As she later tells Topper, she was placed in the service of the government in the strictest of secrecy for this mission after she found out that her husband, who was believed to be lost, Dexter Hayman is still alive and imprisoned in Iraq.

The group made their way to the camp disguised as river fishermen, but on the way they were stopped by a military patrol and, after their cover was broken, were taken under fire. Topper and his people manage to escape, but communication with headquarters breaks off, and when President Benson receives news that the latest mission has apparently also failed, he sets off in person as an old war veteran with a commando force in Iraq . Meanwhile, Topper and the others manage to get to the prison camp; There they free Walters and the soldiers and commandos already captured after a wild gun battle. There it also turns out that Harbinger is not the saboteur, but only tired of the craft of war, and Topper manages to get him out of this crisis. However, Dexter Hayman is not in the camp, so Topper sets off to Saddam's palace while the freed soldiers are taken to the evacuation point.

Topper enters the palace, meets Saddam in person and starts a sword fight with him. In the course of this fight he is replaced by President Benson, who succeeds in freezing Saddam and his doggy with the help of a fire extinguisher and shattering them into a thousand pieces of ice. But the pieces melt in the heat of the fireplace, flow together again to form an absurd hybrid and take up the pursuit of the fugitives, including Dexter, who has since been freed.

When everyone except Topper and Dexter arrive at the meeting point, Michelle demands an immediate departure, but then Ramada steps in her way. It turns out that the two were actually friends, but Michelle has become jealous of Ramada for no reason over the years and has betrayed the missions to the Iraqis so that Dexter would never get free and Ramada should suffer as a result. Ramada exposes and arrests Michelle as a traitor, and when Topper arrives with Dexter, the two admit their love. Dexter wants to take a photo of the heartfelt moment for the tabloids , but has an accident while trying. Finally Benson arrives and the rescue team can take off. Saddam, who is still trying to shoot the fugitives at the last moment, comes to a deserved end through a special kind of ballast thrown off, and Topper and Ramada can finally devote themselves to their love on their way back home.

background

As with Hot Shots! - The mother of all films , the sequel is primarily a loose series of parodies of well-known films. This time, Rambo 2 - The Order and Rocky in particular were used as inspiration, and the plot is also based on their plot. Richard Crenna parodies his own role in the Rambo films in which he has appeared in this film. Films like Phantom-Kommando , Apocalypse Now and Predator also served as models. The scene in which Harbinger and Topper knock down two Iraqis at the same time during the hostage rescue and then grin at each other is borrowed from the John Wayne western The Powerful .

Hot Shots 2 makes references to the following films, among others:

The Godfather Part 1 - The scene at the Italian (in the background you can see Michael Corleone talking in the restaurant).
Rambo 3 - fight scene at the beginning and life with the monks
Rambo 2 - most of the action
Karate Tiger 3 - The Kickboxer - Fight scene (bandaged hands / gummy bears - love pearls)
Lady and the Tramp - scene at the Italian restaurant
Casablanca - Scene at the train station when Ramada Topper moves, and a lot of dialogues between them
Robin Hood - King of Thieves - camera perspective when shooting a chicken with a bow
Star Wars - Lightsaber duel between Saddam and President Benson
Terminator 2 - Judgment Day - Breaking Saddam and his dog and then melting and flowing back together
The Wizard of Oz - Saddam's disappearance after being struck by a wing
Airborne - steel wings - flight into the sun in the final scene
Basic Instinct - Scenes between Michelle and Topper before they arrive in Iraq
No Way Out - There is no going back - love scene between Michelle and Topper in the limousine and the reception scene for the US national holiday
The Guns of Navarone - In the original English version of Hot Shots , parts of the script surrounding the appearance of the patrol boat correspond to similar scenes from this film.
The Jungle Book - The snake flicking back in the jungle when Topper lets go of it
RoboCop and Total Recall - The total memory , which is"replaced"here by Hot Shots 2 as the bloodiest films of all time
Walt Disney's Pinocchio - A submerged prisoner of war calls out to Gepetto, gurgling underwater

Topper Harley alias Charlie Sheen and his father Martin Sheen meet on a river . With the text and the boat, he parodies the film Apocalypse Now , in which he played the leading role, Charlie Sheen does the same with his role from Platoon . They congratulate each other on each other's acting on Wall Street .

During Topper's memory scene , which parodies Lady and the Tramp in the foreground , the following scene can be seen in the background: Captain McCluskey, Virgil Solozzo and Michael Corleone are sitting together at the table in the same Italian restaurant. Then Michael apologizes to go to the bathroom. It is a reference to a famous scene from The Godfather .

During the credits occasionally texts appear such. B. "Fun fact: Actor Richard Crenna invented the tartar sauce".

Bob Vila makes a cameo as a craftsman.

Ryan Stiles also had an appearance in the first part. There he played the pilot "Mailman", except for one scene at the end of the film his face was covered by a mask.

synchronization

Synchron Wenzel Lüdecke GmbH from Berlin was responsible for the German synchronous processing . Arne Elsholtz directed the dubbing and wrote the dialogue book.

role	actor	Voice actor
Sean "Topper" Harley	Charlie Sheen	Arne Elsholtz
President Thomas Benson	Lloyd Bridges	Edgar Ott
Ramada Hayman	Valeria Golino	Maud Ackermann
Arvid Harbinger	Miguel Ferrer	Thomas Danneberg
Denton Walters	Richard Crenna	Klaus Piontek
Dexter Hayman	Rowan Atkinson	Michael Christian
Michelle Huddleston	Brenda Bakke	Franziska Pigulla
Rabinowitz	Ryan Stiles	Manfred Lehmann
Williams	Michael Colyar	Torsten Michaelis
Benjamin L. Willard	Martin Sheen	Christian Brückner
Saddam Hussein	Jerry Haleva	Wolfgang Kühne

Reviews

Hot Shots 2 could not build on the success of the previous film. This applies on the one hand to the box office earnings of almost 134 million US dollars worldwide , but also to the reactions of the film critics, who mostly spoke of a less successful copy.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of May 21, 1993 that as a viewer of parodies of other films one either laughs or not, he laughed. However, Ebert said the other films by director Jim Abrahams such as The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Plane or Top Secret! are more successful.

“The successful, albeit somewhat aimless gag fireworks“ Hot Shots ”will be continued with the same cast and similar means. [...] Unwound according to a tried and tested recipe, this time even with something like an arc of tension, of course very different in the quality of the gags. "

- Lexicon of international film

"In the continuation of his hit movie, Jim Abrahams once again clearly increases the number of hits. Nothing works below ten gags per second. With its many movie quotes, this slapstick is the most sprawling movie quiz of all time. Conclusion: A gag fire for cinema-crazy people. "

- Cinema

The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the rating “valuable”.