Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jim Abrahams
Produced by	Bill Badalato Pat Proft
Written by	Jim Abrahams Pat Proft
Starring	Charlie Sheen Lloyd Bridges Valeria Golino Brenda Bakke Richard Crenna
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Edited by	Malcolm Campbell
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	May 21, 1993 (1993-05-21)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Box office	$133.8 million

Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 parody film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots!. The sequel primarily spoofs the 1980s action films Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III.

Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva. Sheen, who portrays a spoof of John Rambo, went through a tough weight lifting/training program to gain the physique needed to play the role of an action hero.

Abrahams and Pat Proft were the writers of the screenplay. Members of both men's families have roles as extras.

One night, an American special forces team invades Saddam Hussein's (Haleva) palace and a nearby prison camp to rescue captured soldiers from Operation Desert Storm and to eliminate Saddam, but they find the Iraqis prepared for them, and the entire rescue team is captured. This failed operation turns out to be the latest in a series of rescue attempts which were foiled by the Iraqis, and consequently the advisors of President Benson (Admiral Benson in the previous film, played by Bridges) suspect sabotage in their own ranks. Colonel Denton Walters (Crenna) suggests to gain the aid of war hero Topper Harley (Sheen) for the next mission, but Topper has retired from the Navy and become a Buddhist in a small Thai village. Walters and Michelle Huddleston (Bakke), CIA, arrive and try to persuade him to come out of retirement in order to rescue the imprisoned soldiers and the previous rescue parties.