If Joe Dante was Inferno's king, I'd like to go there
seriously, this guy is a dangerous terrorist who can't help destroying from the inside every convention, every cliché in the book, like some offspring of Tom Robbins and Roger Corman meeting on Rabelais' grave.(See what he did with "Small Soldiers" : an anti-militarist toys movie made to sell militarist toys !) Here he destroys everything that propaganda movies like "Top Gun" has been doing for a while - and, like our Italian friend up there judiciously pointed out, this one is too close to the bone to be taken just as comedy - it might better be described as "satire".
This one wasn't theatrically released in France, unlike in Italy, but played on a film festival called "Les inédits d'Amérique"
This one wasn't theatrically released in France, unlike in Italy, but played on a film festival called "Les inédits d'Amérique"