Hot shots firefighters movie#

Interagency Hotshot Crews (IHC), the umbrella organization for hotshot crews, was created in the early 1980s.Because of their demanding jobs, hotshots are required to maintain a high fitness level.Crews are required to remain on call during fire season, which can last up around six months.Crews can be sent across the country, often hiking or taking a helicopter into rugged terrain.The name 'hotshot' comes from the hottest part of the fire, the place where these crews are usually work.Hotshot crews were first used in Southern California after World War II.Much more fun that Top Gun and consistently funny with regular laugh-out-loud moments this is a great spoof that is only just short of the greats like Airplane and Naked Gun. Overall, as with all these things you need to be in the mood but the strength of the material and the high hit ratio makes it easy to enjoy this film. Minor roles for Swanson, Stiles, Dunn and others are also good value for differing reasons and there are a few good cameos in there as well. Golino is a bit dry in her delivery and doesn't help her already weak part in the film. The rest of the cast is made up of very familiar faces who all seem in tune with the material provided Elwes is fun Cryer and O'Leary embrace their one-note characters. He is supported well by Sheen who proves really able in sending himself up and he has done well in other spoofs since then. Although not the star of the film, every scene he is in is stolen by Lloyd Bridges so great in Airplane, he gets the best lines here and his character is hilarious. And that is why the cast here should be largely praised for their straight delivery that serves to make the material even better. The cast is often important in this type of thing and those who have suffered the Wayans brothers mugging in their 'spoofs' will know exactly what I mean people like Leslie Nielsen make it look easy but it really isn't.

Hot shots firefighters movie#

Some individual lines aren't as sharp as others but generally the film has enough great dialogue and funny movie spoofs (including quite a few Tom Cruise movies) to be consistently funny even after repeat viewings. Just like Top Gun the romance aspect isn't as funny as the other bits but even then it is still good. A fine example of this is the dialogue given to Admiral Benson such as 'they ran out of material before they got to the knee so don't give me any sh*t'! This continues throughout the film and it rarely misses. Hot Shots succeeds in this area by managing to make such fun out of serious films that it is hard not to laugh in fact I watched Top Gun recently and found it impossible not to laugh as I remembered Hot Shots! Of course it is not just the fact that it spoofs movies but also that the dialogue is really, really funny totally off the wall and takes you by surprise at times.

The spoof genre is one that appears easy to do but things like Scary Movie, Spaceballs and others all show that it is not as easy as it appears it is not enough to simply ape films unless it is done cleverly and funnily as well.

However with a difficult love interest and his old fears resurfacing, can Topper hold it together? Can the mission succeed? Can Admiral Benson get it together? Only time, will tell. However when Lt Commander Block comes to him with an offer of a second chance, to take part in secret mission Sleepy Weasel, Topper takes it up and signs up for training and briefing with the other pilots. Haunted by feelings of guilt over the actions of his father Buzz and having been kicked out of the navy, Topper Harley has withdrawn from the navy to a life of solitude, quiet contemplation and helium.