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Cert:

Cat.no: 08610 DVD

Running time: 162 minutes

Year: 1991/1993

Pressing: 2001

Region(s): 2, PAL

Chapters: 15/15 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Languages: English

Subtitles: None

Widescreen: 1.85:1

16:9-Enhanced: Yes

Macrovision: Yes

Disc Format: 2 * DVD 5

Price: £19.99

Extras: Trailers

Director:

Jim Abrahams (Airplane!, Big Business, First Do No Harm, Hot Shots!, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Jane Austen's Mafia, Ruthless People, Top Secret, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, TV: Police Squad)

Producer:

Bill Badalato

Screenplay:

Jim Abrahams and Pat Proft

Music:

Sylvester Levay / Basil Poledouris

Cast:

Topper Harley: Charlie Sheen
Ramada Rodham Thompson: Valeria Golino
Admiral Benson: Lloyd Bridges
Lt. Kent Gregory: Cary Elwes
Lt. Commander Block: Kevin Dunn
Kowalski: Kristy Swanson
Col. Denton Walters: Richard Crenna
Michelle Rodham Huddleston: Brenda Bakke
Commander Arvid Harbinger: Miguel Ferrer
Dexter Hayman: Rowan Atkinson

The first film finds Topper being recalled to serve on the SS Essess and to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants, but he's certainly not the right man for the job, being psychologically-imbalanced and the sketches take in spoofs of many films including Top Gun, Dances with Wolves, The Fabulous Baker Boys, 9½ Weeks and Superman.

The sequel, which is much better than the original, brings in Richard Crenna as Col. Denton Walters who finds Topper working at a monastery as an odd-job man and the CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, since team after team have screwed up rescuing hostages taken during Desert Storm. Yes, it's a send-up of Rambo and all other actioners like Commando, but with additional totty in the form of the exceptionally gorgeous Brenda Bakke and a cameo from Sheen's dad Martin.

However, it's quite sad that with the BBFC these days allowing uncut versions of films if a higher or the same certificate allows, Fox have plucked for the censored versions of these comedies, especially since they've allowed an uncut Romancing the Stone to come out as a 12-certificate.

As it is, the films here have been censored by 22 seconds and 67 seconds respectively, the latter losing the back-flip sex scene despite it fleetingly being mentioned in the trailer. And there's no reason to issue them on two separate DVD 5s, since they would both have easily fitted on a single DVD 9.

Brenda Bakke. Yummy, but censored.