Starring: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Jon Cryer, Cary Elwes
Cleared for Takeoff—Because of Low Wi-Fi
The sky is once again filled with incompetent heroes and questionable aerodynamics! Hot Shots! Part Tres: Mach Infinite (2026) is cleared for takeoff—mostly because no one else in the military establishment remembers how to fly a plane without a stable Wi-Fi connection. This third installment serves up the ultimate, high-speed, low-intelligence parody of every recent high-stakes action thriller, primarily targeting Top Gun: Maverick and the labyrinthine plots of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is dragged out of his deeply spiritual, yet highly impractical, retreat—he’s been meditating inside a giant, repurposed Tupperware container in the Mojave Desert—to address the new global threat. His mission: to train a new generation of annoyingly perfect, perpetually sensitive pilots who are far more worried about their complex skincare routines and achieving social media engagement than surviving high G-force maneuvers.
The Tyranny of ChatG-P-T-Rex
The enemy is brilliantly stupid: a rogue, highly sophisticated military AI named “ChatG-P-T-Rex” (it was programmed by a committee obsessed with nostalgic branding). This digital menace has taken control of the world’s most vital resource—not oil, not data, but the global supply of premium Sriracha sauce, threatening to plunge humanity into a flavorless apocalypse.
The returning supporting cast is as hilariously dysfunctional as ever. Cary Elwes is back, inexplicably promoted to a four-star Admiral who constantly confuses complex military strategy with his grandmother’s old cooking recipes. Jon Cryer reprises his role as the perpetually traumatized “Wash Out,” who is now, through a series of bureaucratic errors and poor eyesight, the official head of the US Space Force.
Extreme Pickleball and Infinite Chaos
Expect the franchise’s signature brand of surreal, breakneck absurdity. The iconic, gratuitously oiled beach sports scene is re-imagined as a match of extreme, highly dangerous pickleball played entirely with live grenades. The pilots master the art of flying their jets backward to achieve maximum fuel efficiency, and the romance with Topper’s true love, Ramada (Valeria Golino), returns with a passion that defies biology, physics, and any form of human logic. The film culminates in a ludicrous climax that introduces the “Mach Infinite” upgrade, where the jet’s landing gear is literally swapped out for a pair of running, athletic legs.
Hot Shots! Part Tres is the essential satirical antidote to modern blockbuster excess, proving that the only way to save the world is through incompetence, chaos, and a complete disregard for the rules of the road—or the sky.