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The film parodies action movies such as Rambo, Apocalypse Now, Predator, Missing In Action, and Commando, with Richard Crenna's character acting as an homage to his own roles in the Rambo movies. It makes references to several "syndromes" or cliché plot devices common in action movies, including (but not limited to) the stormtrooper effect.

It also takes shots at, among other things, Our Miss Brooks, Star Wars, Kickboxer, The Karate Kid, Lady and the Tramp, Casablanca, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, Looney Tunes, No Way Out, Basic Instinct, Platoon, The Guns of Navarone, The Wizard of Oz,The Godfather, RoboCop, American Gladiators, Disney's version of Pinocchio, and the Energizer Bunny. And one scene where Lloyd Bridges' character, the president, is working his way to the rescue operation takes place underwater with a scuba-diving Bridges doing a voice-over narration, an homage to his best-known work on the TV series Sea Hunt.

Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen, makes a cameo, parodying his role in Apocalypse Now. As Charlie is travelling up the river reflecting on his experience (a parody of his role in Platoon), he sees his father Martin travelling the opposite way and also reflecting in an inner monologue similar to the voice-over from Apocalypse Now. They both stand up, look at each other, and as they pass, both yell to each other "I loved you in Wall Street!", a reference to a film in which they both starred.

Bob Vila, then the host of Bob Vila's Home Again, makes a cameo appearance as the tradesman who installed some insulation to Topper Harley's house in Thailand. When an Iraqi ship arrives to capture Harley and crew, we see that it is named The Behn Gazzara, a reference to actor Ben Gazzara, and one of its captain's oaths (in the gobbledegook Iraqi language used by both this and the first film) is "Omar Sharif!".

The film also mocks past US history, such as George H. W. Bush vomiting on the Japanese prime minister and Jimmy Carter's failed rescue operation Operation Eagle Claw where the rescue mission to rescue the American hostages had to be rescued by another rescue mission.