Top Gun: Maverick - Group Movie Reaction 

Hey guys! We want to apologize for the comments made about Val Kilmer in our reaction. We had no idea he had throat cancer and it was insensitive to say regardless of that.

Dude I watched this film 3 times in the cinema with my family, first time I watched it people stood up and actually clapped. That just proves how legendary this movie is.

“He’s Tom Cruise, he never dies…” All I could think of was ‘You’ve never seen edge of tomorrow then’, he dies more times in that than Sean Bean.

Dune and Top Gun: Maverick were two movies that were absolutely unforgettable experiences in IMAX

Penny was only mentioned as the Admiral's daughter that Maverick took for a joyride. However they did use the same house 😂

“So you can listen to music backwards?” The look on Chris face at that moment 😭😭😭

Couple things worth mentioning: 1. Penny was referenced in the first movie a couple of times. Once when Goose and Maverick were being chewed out in the aircraft carrier Captain's room and once by Meg Ryan's character while Goose was playing "Great Balls Of Fire" on the piano. 2. That is actually Tom Cruise's P-51 Mustang at the beginning and end of the movie.

When hangman saved Maverick and rooster at the last second, the whole audience stood up and cheered like a baseball team

Lifetime U.S. Naval aviation guy here. Top Gun Maverick was very real as far as flying and coms goes with regard to the Super Hornet. I was also a Tomcat guy too, and the Tomcat start up scene was impeccable….it was accurate and perfect. Thanks for the reaction video. You all are great! Thank you! Edit: if you didn’t know, that’s Tom Cruise’s P-51 Mustang and he’s actually flying it. He’s a great pilot in real life. Again, thanks for the great content.

this movie made me cry, not because it was sad, but because at the end i looked over to my dad and he was bawling. He watched the first movie when he was in his teens and he said he felt like he was back there.

Penny was the Admiral's daughter that Goose mentioned in the original that Mav got in trouble sleeping with

Probably the best sequel made to a movie imo

My dad helped make the f-14 and he taught me so much about jets so seeing the f14 go against the su57 go against my dad's f14 had me a little emotional

Dude asked if you can listen to the music backwards. I think someone should let him know that keeping pace with the sunrise/sunset line is not the same thing as traveling at the speed of LIGHT!

I watched this movie in IMAX when it came out and my jaw was literally on the floor the entire time. I'm not much of a movie buff, but this film is the perfect example of pure cinema. It's also refreshing to see a film dominate the box office without it being a superhero movie.

Watching this in theatres in the summer was an unforgettable experience. Tom Cruise’s hard work and dedication to making movies like this is undeniable and unarguable.

Y'all remember this: Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter! Goose : Penny Benjamin?

Clearly "Phoenix" is the BEST pilot. During the bird strike, she gained altitude (a pilots best friend) all things possible and made sure that BOB ejected first, before ejecting herself. Also: "Nice."

F/A-18 Super Hornet guy in real life here. The aviation physics in this movie were pretty much dead on. Bravo!

In regards to Maverick's ability against the other pilots, there's a great interview that Jocko Willink did with an actual former lead instructor at Top Gun. He specifically asked how realistic it is for an instructor to just ace everyone, and he actually said that is very realistic. These instructors just spend so much time practicing dog fights and focusing on that one aspect of combat that they wreck students.

The cinematography of this movie was absolutely top tier. Haven't seen a movie this good in a long time.

Retired Navy here. Much of this movie is pretty spot on. Yes, some inaccuracies are present, but usually for dramatic flair, from the flight scenes all the way down to the bar quirks, strong personalities and all. (I did roll my eyes at the inaccuracies, but I know they’re a necessary evil.) Maverick was always Active Duty. The beginning scene was of him on special assignment or special project. It is a thing for members who have special skill sets. Sometimes through volunteer, sometimes through voluntold. “They’re called orders, Maverick.” Usually the voluntoldees are excited to be chosen for a particular set of orders. Yes, drones are becoming more and more present, but the need for human pilots in the seat overrides any autonomous tech. Pros and cons to both. All three actors who played the Admirals were perfect. If I didn’t know better I’d say they were the real deal. No joke. Yes, we play some…interesting sports in the military. Rooster’s problem with Mav is the paper-pulling, not his dad’s death. Yes, the net/barricade is a very real part of emergency landing procedures.

Im sure someone has told yall by now but...Penny is the Penny Benjamin that Goose mentioned at the beginning of the first top gun movie. The admiral's daughter brought up by "Principal Skinner" when they got back from helping Cougar get back to the ship.

Geez you guys laugh at everything when you're in a group lol. And yes Val Kilmer has been having health issues for a while now. "He underwent chemotherapy and two tracheotomies. In 2020, he revealed that he had been cancer free for four years, and that he uses a feeding tube because he can no longer eat. In 2021, his voice was able to be re-created through AI technology using archival audio of his voice" Surprised with 6 of you, none of you guys knew that. But just makes jokes about the poor guy ig lol Loved the reaction btw! Just my little nitpick that irked me for a few lol. I just feel bad for Val 😭🔥

I’m so glad Chris called pat out at the end because that was INSANE 😂😂😂

Penny Benjamin was a mention in the first movie, as one of the things that Maverick did a fly by and got in trouble for.

My wife grew up with a pilot for a dad, learned to fly, and loves planes & jets. She LOVED this movie. When the part where the fifth-generation fighter cut engines and floated to dodge the missile had her whisper, “Holy f-k” in the theater.

I went into this movie not thinking i was gonna like it. But its become one of my favorite movies!

I'm like 20, but I watched the Top Gun movie - and it really had a lot of charm, and when Maverick came out this year I was SO HYPED the entire time. First day, IMAX, no regrets. absolutely phenomenonal

A fun Easter Egg for this film is: In the bar scene, David Bowie is playing in the background! Jen's first Megahit movie Labyrinth!!!

With all the divisiveness we've had in this country the past few years, this movie did a good job to make people feel united again, even for a little while.

I'm so disappointed that Suraj was not here to tell us that this 12:55 was Not Penny's Boat!

Btw, that's Val Kilmer's actual voice. That's why you don't see him in any new movies. Sadly, he actually has had throat cancer. I LOVE that Barricade trap! I participated in one back in 1997.

When it comes to the type of person who usually pilot fighter jets, and even weaponized rotary aircraft, tend to be Type A personalities. Achievement-oriented, workoholic, competitive, fast-pace, aggressive, dominant, and impatient. My husband is an AH-64 Apache pilot, fits this personality, along with the majority of his fellow pilots in his field. It is very competitive, from flight school to stationed assignment you are constantly testing your skills against others. So hangman’s personality definitely fits here.

Just so you know, the F-18 has a top speed 1090, or mach 1.8. The F-14 had a top speed of 1544, or mach 2.34. Most gen 5 fighters have a top speed between 1100 and 1300 MPH. The F-14 smokes them all in speed!

Every student that goes through that school in real life becomes a teacher. They take back all the experience they got at the school back to their CVN's and pass it on to the other pilots. I had a wingman that graduated from there. That girl knew how to fly that's for damn sure.

What I actually love about this is that Tom actually made the actors train like military and they did fly their own planes. Like them flying is actually real

When you realize Tom Cruise owns the P-51D and actually flies it both irl and in the movie.

Top Gun one. They're talking about Vietnam, we were not supposed to cross into Cambodia or Laos, but we had to. The Viet Cong kept doing it. That's how Mavericks dad died.

"so would you be able to listen to music backwards" 🤣

"Who is Penny again?" Penny was a love interest both pre and post Charlie. She is referred to by Stinger, Goose and Carole in Top Gun. In the scene where Stinger is chewing out Maverick: Stinger: "a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter!" Goose, leaning over to Maverick: "Penny Benjamin" Later when Carole and Bradley arrive at the airport Carole mentions that time that Maverick "went ballistic with Penny Benjamin" and again in the diner scene with Charlie, Carole adds "Goose told me all about that time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin" It's really great how they took a few off hand references to someone in Maverick's love life and turned her into a fully fledged character with a believable history and some real chemistry with Mav.

Penny was the Admiral’s Daughter mentioned in Top Gun one.

22:31 "so you could listen to music backwards" their reaction ahahahahahaha

Props to Navi and Mickey the only two folks I've seen watching this so far who get that Hangman is the Maverick of the bunch. All the others bods I've seen doing videos on it seem to think he's an Iceman analog, presumably more based on his looks than anything else. Anyway, class film. really surprised me how much I enjoyed it.

Tom Cruise's biggest movie ever, the #1 movie of the year, best sequel of the year, #1 movie of the decade, the 2nd film to gross over $1 billion in the movie theatre re-booming during Covid-19. A great story with so much nostagia of the original. To be made and to be made as real as possible makes this a great piece of work. Seeing Val Kilmer as Iceman again was so heartwarming, even with knowing what he's really gone through. A series of video games (1986-2010) was good run for movie to game adaptations. I had the 18th and final game on PS3 subtitled "Hard Lock" (2010) and it's set years after the first film, Maverick as an instructor to an new generation of pilots. But his best student, Lance Webb aka Spider takes on an elite special mission (predates the movie sequel's story, crazy). But in any event, the 3 years of waiting for TG:M to was so worth the admission.

I got to watch this for the first time at the Drive-In, which I HIGHLY recommended. It was a breezy summer night so the atmosphere really contributed to the experience. Absolutely incredible movie.

Watched this 6 times in theaters. I cry every time. Including now.

My girl fangirling over BOB is SO me Loved this movie one of the best this year glad y'all reacted to it !!!!

I literally watched this movie 3 times within 2 days of releasing, and fun fact: most of the plane scenes are real planes and they are really in those planes acting, that’s why it feels so real and exhilarating. I love this movie, I think it’s the best movie in the past years

My dad was in the navy and I was looking through one of his what it seemed like a photo book of one of the ships he was on. The pictures were actual photos of them during work, so it would make sense that the photos you asked who was taking at the end actually could've happened.

This is 10/10 love this film! This is how you do a sequel after years right🔥 Val Kilmers scene was so damn good & this was tense most of the time the flying scenes were incredible wonder how much training the actors did for it

Hi Normies! Great video! Let me clear up some confusion about Mach speeds and G forces and Gravity. PS: I'm knowledgeable but not an expert, so I might not be 100% correct, so this is based on my knowledge which may be incomplete. So an aircraft has 3 measures of speed. Ground speed is how fast you are travelling over the ground. Generally speaking this isn't used for basic navigation but is useful for determining how soon you will arrive at your destination and can be tracked via GPS. Airspeed is how fast you are travelling through the air and if you are travelling against the wind your airspeed will be higher than flying with the wind, this is why airplanes take off and land into the wind because they use up less runway that way. Mach is speed of sound through the fluid (in this case air) you are currently flying through. This is variable depending on atmospheric temperature, which generally gets warmer as you get lower and colder as you get higher. The number of G's you are pulling is less about speed and gravity and more about inertia. It is a measure of force equal to the pull of Earth's gravity, multiplied based on acceleration and changing direction. But it's not a measure of gravity itself. When you are in a car and you step on the gas, it takes awhile for your body to catch up, and you get pushed back into your seat. When you pull up in a jet it takes a while for your body to catch up, and your body (and organs and blood) gets pushed down into your seat, and at very high G's your blood drains from your brain and you black out. If you suddenly go nose DOWN there is the opposite effect, a red out, where your blood rushes to your head. This doesn't just affect your body, it effects every part of the airplane as well. The effect of earth's gravity is equal to 1g all the time, but the force of gravity doesn't diminish that significantly until you get VERY (very) far away from the Earth. The reason why astronauts feel lighter is because they are going very very fast. Like when you drop a ball, it just falls, and when you throw it, it falls slower. In space, with so little air friction, you can go VERY fast, fast enough to counter gravity completely, and as a result you feel weightless. You're not escaping gravity, you are just in a state of freefall, like the feeling you get when you jump in an elevator going down except way more noticeable, and you are going too fast to fall. It's the same reason why the moon doesn't crash into the Earth or fly away into space (actually it is, just very very slowly), and is why all the planets don't go crashing into the Sun. Everything in the solar system formed from swirling clouds of particles and clumped together, and formed balls as they swirled around the central mass that got ignited into the Sun. That motion translated into how planets orbit and how they achieved equilibrium once all the small stuff clumped together into planets. Hope that helps! And there might be someone smarter than me that can chime in if I got something wrong. Thanks for entertaining us!

When I saw this in theatre the first day it opened the crowd was cheering louder than you guys were and yes it was the trench run on Star Wars.

I dont trust anyone that doesn't cry during this movie.

Smartest thing Mav did in the dogfight was to rake that first MIG....turned a 2v1 into a somewhat manageable 1v1 fight.

Saw this movie in theaters twice and once in imax. Absolutely amazing! Didn't want a love movie either, but with Jennfier Connelly. Yeah, I would see that. Lol. Mavericks inverted move over Rooster was awesome, and those 5th gen fighters against the f-18's was epic

The test plane is the SR-72, successor to the wonderful SR-71.

You guys are a lot of fun. Star Wars took their idea of "trench run from the Military and added their twist. The Air Force and Navy has been doing "trench/canyon runs training since the 1960's. As far as Penny goes... from the first movie: "a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter," with Goose mentioning her name ( Penny Benjamin) under his breath. Later, Goose's wife Carole Bradshaw mentions to Maverick that he had told her all about "the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin. :)

Just finished watching this alongside your full length reaction and that was fun. I LOVE this film. Saw it a ridiculous amount of times in the cinema in IMAX and still love it every time.

You guys need to watch the behind the scenes ! The amount the actors themselves had to go through . Insane

Fun fact the f-18’s in the movie are actually slower than the F-14s in the first movie lol…..f-18 max speed Mach 1.18 and the f-14 is Mach 2.5

The group's immediate love for Bob lmao same

the BEST movie of 2022. i saw it a few weeks after release but i demanded to be seen on the big screen

Regarding humans travelling at high Mach: astronauts on the space shuttles re-entering the atmosphere regularly travelled at approximately Mach 20. This is why the space shuttle had heat shield tiles built into the underside of the craft.

Any pilot during the current Top-Gun sessions; including Red Flag -- pays a penalty of $5 per instance -- for each movie quote uttered during the training period. However, the sound-track, you know all pilots love and have memorized!

Lol, love how Navi was like, "but it's tom cruise, he can't die" Literally

I gotta say I’ve seen this film several times already and that was the first time I recognized the reference to Rooster and the Slow Ride - Song, nice call out!

To me this is the best movie of the decade.

Watching this in the cinema was an unforgettable experience

i remember when the original movie came out and was great, hard to believe its been almost 40 years since and now, just finished watching T.G Maverick and i would say it is superb from the acting, action, and effects. I enjoyed this sequel much more than i thought i would bringing something fresh but also nostalgia feeling back from decades ago. This is a sure fire winner, a great movie and would be great to see Top Gun 3. Big thumbs UP. A great follow up where sequels usually fail but this did not. Want to also say it was great seeing Iceman again despite his real life cancer battle but he was great in the short time on screen and Miles Teller, fantastic as the son of Goose, great job on performance and on screen chemistry. The perfect ending to the story of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell./ Tom Cruise.

Saw Top Gun Maverick in July 2022, in Loveland, CO. Saw original 36 yrs ago. This one was not just a movie, but an EXPERIENCE!! NO ONE but TOM CRUISE could have pulled this off!! He is the BEST EVER!!

I think you guys might be the first reactors I’ve seen mention that Hangman is like Maverick. Everyone is so quick to jump on “he’s the new iceman”. But no. He’s cavalier and arrogant, just like maverick was in the first movie.

The movie is incredible seeing it on the IMAX screen. Yes, like the original and The FInal Countdown, this movie is kinda like propaganda for the armed forces. But it is supercool as entertainment. Props to Tom Cruise for getting the Navy to allow cameras inside the cockpits and actors to be in there for even more realism. Also props because he pushed for a theatrical release and I'm so glad he did. FANBOY's helmet font is the one used for the Star TRek TOS.

Fun fact, everything in the hanger in the opening and last scene Tom Cruise owns. Also as a Top Gun fan that has literally been waiting my whole life for a sequel.......this movie did not disappoint in any way shape or form. Prefect sequel; Also for those that didn't catch it Penny Benjamin was the one's Admirals daughter from the first movie.......which is an absolutely amazing call back

Easily the best film of 2022. Great reaction Normies! 👍🏿

I've watch this movie at least 30 times, and I still love it❤💪

"You could send him in alone, apparently..." - Best line of the reaction!

Really missed you guys. Thanks for the reaction

This is basically the Avalon Dam Mission in AC Zero. Fly down near the river, sending people above the radar to distract the A.A guns

"That was a good movie." "No. It was a phenomenal movie."

First one was the first movie I ever saw and I man-cried in this one 😢

If you were curious, Rooster blamed Maverick for what happened to his dad “Goose”. In the early stages of the film, Rooster didn’t like Maverick for what he did, then later on in the film, he respects him and saves his life. At the end, Rooster said: “It’s what my dad would say.” That is a reference if Goose was in the same cockpit as Maverick, he would’ve saved his life. Penny Benjamin is Pete’s love interest. She was only mentioned in the original film. Now we see her in the second film.

So glad she saw the same thing I saw. Rooster is iceman and hangman is maverick. But people keep calling hangman the new iceman and it’s irritating

The P-51-D Mustang you see in the beginning and the end is Tom's real life plane. Most of the air scenes are real the close air combat scenes are cgi as there is a proximity minimum range you can not break.

My favorite movie of the year! Saw it several times in the theater, where it has to be seen! Best movie🙌

Hey! About that “border thing w/ some imaginary line somewhere”… It wasn’t the movie attempting to be ambiguous about who the enemy was. There are always disputes between nations and even provinces within nations as to where borders are. He was speaking to that phenomenon in which SOME map that SOMEBODY made is saying a border line is SOMEWHERE and that they had crossed it unknowingly. It happens all the time, and if Americans knew how often this happens, and how often little conflicts like that occur, jaws would hit the floor. -retired pilot

You guys are great! 1. Number of G’s is the multiplier for what your weight would feel like. 10 G’s is 10xs your weight. 2. My uncle worked for NASA from the 60s until he retired. He was highly placed. In the early 90s, he was evaluating 3 commercial jets with the private industry. They were Mach 3, Mach 6, and Mach 12. The last means NY to Tokyo in 2 hours. It had to fly in the stratosphere and ‘skim’ the atmosphere to fly in thinner air to reduce friction and heat.

Did you get the Easter egg? When Maverick first meets Penny(Jennifer Connely) in the bar!! Music by David Bowie plays in the background, with whom she filmed Labyrinth when she was 16.

Maverick chose not to eject and sat there to say “I’m sorry, Goose”.

Your reaction to this movie is top notch! Tom Cruise exceeded expectations in this masterpiece. I was 11 years old when the original Top Gun came out. This movie brings back memories!

I'm like Rana throughout that entire last sequence, except I didn't have a pillow so I squished my popcorn bag into my head in nervous anxiety.

So glad they found a tasteful way to incorporate Val Kilmer's illness into the story

Actually, the F-14 was quite a bit faster than the F/A 18 of either generation.

The friction generated by a hypersonic jet going through the atmosphere is insane. It doesn't light the air on fire, it ionizes the air, strips the electrons off of the atoms and turns the air into plasma. It's what happens on re-entry with the shuttle and any spacecraft really. For the Darkstar jet, they actually hired the Skunkworks... the guys that designed the F117A nighthawk and other stealth aircraft, the SR-71, etc. They worked with the production team on the film to design the jet to be functionally capable of Mach 10, but also look cool for a movie. And then they built it. Just a mockup, it can't actually fly, but when they roll it out of the hangar and taxi it... that's a real fullsize, non digital, built by the wizards at the Skunkworks themselves prototype. That's just a freaking awesome level of detail.

Top Gun is still running in the only non-digital Imax theatre in my country. Imma have to go watch it again

Makes me miss my Navy days. I was a Tomahawk operator in my early days, then became a AIC ( Air Intercept Controller ) on the Constellation CV-64. The one on the radar talking to the pilots. Quite a bit of some bogus stuff in here. But A lot of accuracy to. Good movie. USN, OSC ( SW ) AIC Retired.

22:32 22:41 I laughed so hard my vision got blurry af! Damn you dude 🤣

13:37 'Bro, we're doing a Star Wars run?' Yes, indeedy. 👌🤣

Saw this movie in IMAX and I was blown away. It was better than the original. Miles Teller was perfect to play Goose son.

Price of 1st plane $55.7 millions F18 Super Hornet, F35 $82.6 million, F16 $13-$70 million, F22 $125 million, F14 $38 million, and Sukhoi Su-57 Felon $35 million. Stealing and destroying multimillion dollar jet. Jennifer Connelly's character, Penny Benjamin was only mentioned not shown in Top Gun 1. Missiles and rifle bullets cal outrun a jet