Hot Shots! (PG-13, 1991)
common sense media says
Daffy flight with the Airplane! crew; some crudeness.
parents & educators say
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this broad spoof of Top Gun and other Hollywood fare includes some raunchy material, primarily a takeoff on the kinky sex-foreplay scenes from the erotic drama 9 1/2 Weeks (there's no nudity here, though). Off-color verbal humor includes a proverb that involves incest, a joke about “balls,” and scattered swearing with the f-word (in a printed subtitle), the s-word, and assorted "hells," "damns," etc. Violence is very cartoonish and unrealistic, the level of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, practically.
Positive role models:
Not much character development in a parody in which protagonists are all mockeries of movie stereotypes and Hollywood heroism, with a recurring theme being the undermining of the "macho" pilots in Top Gun. As in the target Tom Cruise movie, the leading man and the leading lady have premarital sex. By and large, the sense is that military-service movies -- rather than the military values themselves -- are being mocked.
Violence:
Silly slapstick, practically like a cartoon (at one point Topper gets electrocuted and you see an animated skeleton). An ill-fated pilot nicknamed "Dead Meat" suffers a series of comical catastrophes (including being hit by an ambulance) that result in his death. A barroom brawl (unrealistic and jokey), plane crashes, men set on fire.
Sex:
Girls clad in underwear or lingerie. A piano player looks up the skirt of the sexy heroine. Double-entendre dirty jokes, a vulgar proverb about family incest. A warplane called the "Phallus." A lengthy scene (parodying the racy drama 9 1/2 Weeks) in which the unmarried hero and heroine use food as foreplay prior to having sex (itself not shown).
Language:
The f-word once, in a subtitle. God's name in vain, the s-word a few times. "Crap," "hell," "piss," "ass."
Consumerism:
Honda motorcycles, references to Disneyland. Tacit references to other (often R-rated) movies such as 9 1/2 Weeks and The Godfather.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
A bar riot erupts at a call of "free beer." Comedic inhaling of helium to create high voices.
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MEGAFLASH500
kid, 13 years old
kid, 13 years old
more Airplanes!
a scenes of a large exploision. topper and ramada cook food on her. a funeral turns into a war scene, with guns and exploisions. a pilots head is shown on a wall. someone is electrocuted. refrences to eating someone. crashes.
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Vivian_L
teen, 17 years old
teen, 17 years old
Funny stuff--
I watched this movie just recently during a long car ride over Thanksgiving break-- while my younger sister didn't care much for it, I thought it was really funny (although very silly). I recommend it for ages 12+ because, although they weren't extremely explicit, there was some sexual innuendo. But if you like the sillier comedies, I recommend you see this.
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