I’d describe “Hot Shots” as like a circuit board with a loose wire as that loose wire is responsible for everything else being completely useless. This is a parody of the movie “Top Gun”, which I didn’t like very much so I wasn’t expect much from a movie that owes its existence to it.

In “Hot Shots”, Charlie Sheen (“Wall Street”) stars as a spoof of Tom Cruise’s character Maverick in “Top Gun” named Lt. Topper Harley. Harley is an unstable yet great fighter pilot, who was kicked out of the Navy but now they want him back to set him up so the government will be forced to buy new high-tech fighter jets.

Charlie Sheen is plain awful in this film as he is neither funny nor interesting; easily one of cinema’s worst performances even by parody film standards. Cary Elwes (“Saw”) stars as Harley’s fellow fighter pilot rival as the two squabble over Ramada (Valeria Golino “Rain Man”). Lloyd Bridges (“Airplane!”), Kevin Dunn (“Transformers”) and Jon Cryer (“Superman IV: The Quest for Peace”) all feature but nobody in this film is good in the slightest and sadly Cryer becomes the best actor in the movie.

With great parody films like “Airplane!”, “The Naked Gun” and even “Spaceballs” we don’t need “Hot Shots” but it’s better than some spoofs like “Disaster Movie” although not by much. “Hot Shots” doesn’t throw as many jokes as you at I expected as instead it recycles various ones throughout and drags on other for much longer than they can sustain for. There are a few half decent jokes in this picture but when I watched other spoofs like “Airplane!” I find much more laughs and plenty of good ones. “Hot Shots” is a waste of valuable time and effort; it’s a spoof best forgotten.