Top gun: Maverick

Tiny Tom Cruise is Barry Maverick – pilot and quite old person. He lives quietly with his plane but, oh no! Foreigners are doing foreign stuff. America wants to put a stop to all that so ask Barry Maverick to come and teach young people how to be dangerous pilots on the edge in return for being allowed to get off with an attractive lady twenty years his junior. Young people are all rubbish so Barry ends up blowing up all the foreigners himself because America.

Trivia

The scene in which tom Cruise makes tender love to his jet plane was almost cut due to it’s explicit nature.

The beach on which the pilots play touch football is actually Southend in Essex. It was filmed there because Tom Cruise loves going on the rides at Adventure Island

Top gun: Maverick is the sequel to a classic 1986 film called ‘Highlander’

Jennifer Connelly was actually Prime Minister of Denmark at the time of filming, and her scenes had to be scheduled around matters of state

Bloopers

Whilst filming the climatic scene in which the squadron destroys the uranium enrichment plant, the actors accidentally invaded Mexico, leading to a 4-day war