Is part deux as funny as the first movie?

HOT SHOTS: 1/10
HOT SHOTS PART DEUX: 0/10

Pretty much a coin toss for me, I like them both a lot.

I find the original funnier. The humor in the first seemed to be more in the dialogue while the humor in the second seemed to be more in the slapstick.

I think it is just as funny. Just an opinion.

I have never seen both of them completely but I am under the impression that part 2 is funnier.

When I first saw these movies back in the day, I thought both were really funny, but the second one was funnier, better and all-in-all perfect. Back then, it seemed like the first movie was almost like a trial run, and the second movie the real deal.

However, nowadays, my perspective is that the first movie is more deeply funny, and the second one is more based on superficial gags instead of really going deep and tickling your whole self with more thorough funniness.

The second one IS funny, though, but it's more 'predictably' and superficially funny, whereas the first one's absurdity reaches deeper level, and thus reaches parts of you that you didn't know could be amused.

I'd say the first movie is more absurd, surreal and thus manages to 'surprise' you more, the second is more 'typical joke'-funny, parody-funny, and such, but it doesn't get to be as absurd (it tries, but it comes off as just 'silly' most of the time).

However, when the second movie really gives you something to laugh about, it's incredibly funny, I still can't get over the..

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.. "War, It's FAN-TASTIC!"

That makes me laugh every time I even think about it.

I find them both funny in their own ways.

And how can anyone not love Part Deux with the Martin Sheen cameo?