Hot Shots! Review
Just as Airplane! made it impossible to take Airport and other disaster movies seriously, Hot Shots! will forever alter the way you view Top_Gun. It's another successful parody from director Jim_Abrahams, who gets in enough jokes and gags for a week-long festival of standard comedy films. It feels like a speedy derivative of The_Marx_Brothers at their most ludicrous, or Mad Magazine in motion pictures, and Mel_Brooks' movie burlesques (Young_Frankenstein, Blazing_Saddles, High_Anxiety) are certainly close cousins. Abrahams' movies have a consistent style, and they create a surreal atmosphere in which anything might happen. The Hollywood in-jokes are a big part of the laughs, but the set-ups are so fantastic yet familiar that they come off like live-action comics. Brendon Hanley, Rovi
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