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Movies that feel likeHot Shots! (1991)

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.

If you loved Hot Shots!, the closest films we have are Three Kings (1999), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) and Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966). All three share Hot Shots!'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shadow (2018).

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jim Abrahamskineticwittyplayfulbleak
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Three Kings
1999 Β· dir. David O. Russell
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.1action Β· comedy Β· war

The same mix in both: momentum, then wit

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 Β· dir. Barry Levinson
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama Β· war

Playful where it counts, bleak underneath

The difference: Trades the momentum of Hot Shots! for an angle of its own

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966 Β· dir. GΓ©rard Oury
β˜… 7.8comedy Β· war

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Hot Shots! does

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

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Mediterraneo
1991 Β· dir. Gabriele Salvatores
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· romance Β· war

Both lean on play more than on war

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Hot Shots! does

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

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Duck Soup
1933 Β· dir. Leo McCarey
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· war

Bleak action in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

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Tropic Thunder
2008 Β· dir. Ben Stiller
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1action Β· comedy Β· warApple TV+Paramount+

Both are built on the same subject: parody

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009 Β· dir. Grant Heslov
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.2comedy Β· warStarz

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

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Shadow
2018 Β· dir. Zhang Yimou
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7action Β· warPrime Video

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

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Tears of the Sun
2003 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 34%β˜… 6.6war Β· action Β· dramaNetflix

Both lean on momentum more than on war

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.

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Eastern Condors
1987 Β· dir. Sammo Hung
β˜… 7.1action Β· adventure Β· war

Both lean on bleakness more than on action

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

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Stalag 17
1953 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· drama Β· war

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8action Β· drama Β· war

War of the same temperament

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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