Hot Shots! Part Deux

“It's silly, derivative and too wacky for its own narrative good; traits that the director and Proft wear like a Congressional Medal of Honor. But it's also the funniest 86 minutes I've spent in a movie theater since, well, Hot Shots! Anybody else ready for Part Trois?”

Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times · 83

“If the first mission made roughly $50 million domestically, the sky could be the limit for this much better sequel -- a clever spoof of "Rambo" and a dozen other movies that employs the usual scattershot "Airplane!" approach but boasts a higher shooting percentage than its forebear. Look out, comedy fans: Fox is coming to get you.”

Brian Lowry, Variety · 80

“[An] often hilarious film...Abrahams and Proft’s nonstop throwaway humor keeps spirits lifted and a smile on our faces, and it also has the admirable effect of deflating those action movies that exploit violence in the name of a pious, if dubious, patriotism.”

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times · 80

“Movies like this are more or less impervious to the depredations of movie critics. Either you laugh, or you don't. I laughed.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times