Hot Shots! Part Deux - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Hot Shots! Part Deux or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Hot Shots! Part Deux

[phyllis]

The interior of Saddam's palace is the set of Tony Montana's palace from the 1983 version of Scarface.

[russell]

In an 1995 Interview with Entertainment Tonight, Sylvester Stallone was asked if he had any plans to make Rambo 4? He replied jokingly "Why don't you ask Charlie Sheen to star in it", referencing Charlie Sheen having played a parody of Rambo in this movie.

[riley]

In the restaurant flashback, while they are spoofing the Lady and the Tramp scene, in the background, the restaurant scene from The Godfather is going on also.

[jim]

Jerry Haleva returns as Saddam Hussein, after a cameo role as Hussein in the first Hot Shots! (1991).

[cassandra]

Richard Crenna consulted with Sylvester Stallone about whether he would be OK if Crenna took a part in a spoof of the Rambo films. Stallone was all for it.

[morris]

All the female characters have the middle name Rodham, a nod to then first lady Hillary Clinton.

[christina]

Charlie Sheen and Ryan Stiles would later work together again on Two & a Half Men, on which Stiles had a long running reoccuring role.

[kylie]

Later in 1993, Charlie Sheen played Aramis in The Three Musketeers (1993). That role was previously played by Lloyd Bridges in The Fifth Musketeer (1979), which also featured José Ferrer as Athos. Miguel Ferrer also appears in this film.

[lonnie]

For the patrol boat battle sequence, stunt performers jumped on a diving board for the stunts where Iraqi soldiers flew into the air and landed in the water.

[marc]

Other movies that are referenced and/or satirized include Rambo, No Way Out, The Guns of Navarone, Lady And The Tramp, Basic Instinct, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Star Wars, Terminator 2, and The Wizard of Oz

[lena]

Harbinger's "War...It's fantastic" line was a parody of the National Basketball Association's "The NBA...It's Fan-tastic" advertising slogan of that time.

[frederick]

The towel on one of the terrorists heads in the torture scene says Holiday Inn.

[mathew]

In the riverboat scene when Charlie Sheen runs across Martin Sheen, both are repeating voice overs from their respective Vietnam era movies. Charlie Sheen repeating lines from "Platoon" and Martin Sheen repeating lines from "Apocalypse Now".

[kylie]

Body count: 114. (More than the combined body count of RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990), which is referenced on-screen.)

[lynn]

Rowan Atkinson doesn't appear until 71 minutes into the film and only has 2 minutes screen time.

[edgar]

Production was shut down when Valeria Golino was sent to hospital with gout.

[tom]

Richard Crenna plays Denton Walters. In the TV series Our Miss Brooks (1952), Crenna played a character called "Walter Denton".

[fred]

The story Colonel Walters tells Topper is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

[addison]

Two scenes that were filmed, but cut were featured in the teaser trailer: Rufshaad hanging Col. Denton Walters by the arms and Rufshaad asks Col. Walters about Topper Harley, if Harley is a madman for standing alone against 3000 men? which Walters answers "He figures that the odds are in his favor" and Gerou informing President Tug Benson that the 3rd mission to rescue the hostages has failed and President Benson offers Gerou a cookie.