Saw Hot Shots! Part Deux, another wacky action-comedy, this time a parody of the later Rambo films. The first Hot Shots(!) film focussed more on air-force-specific gags, along with the slapstick and gross-out gags. This film doubles-down on the goofy humor, making use of a literal rubber chicken and a lisping Saddam Hussein. It's a very full-throated comedy. Because the stakes are so low, there's not much drama at all and there's basically never any doubt that the heroes will win in the end. As a consequence, it's pretty goofy but fairly insubstantial.
I'm not a huge fan of comedy. I prefer melodrama to gags. This one didn't overcome my internal comedy-shield, but if you like the goofy, no-stakes comedies of the 80s/90s, you'll like this.
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