Top Gun 2

Following Top Gun 2's May 27 theatrical premiere, viewers will have to wait a while until the action-packed sequel arrives on streaming services.

If Tom Cruise's Top Gun 2 follows this same release strategy, viewers can expect the sequel to be available for streaming via Paramount+ on or around July 11, 2022 at the earliest – though July 15 seems more likely for a Friday streaming release. As Top Gun 2 is being distributed by Paramount, the high-profile release is likely to follow the studio's previous trend for streaming drops. Top Gun 2 will receive an exclusive theatrical release before it drops on streaming services.

Journalist and editor Matt Patches promised to eat a shoe if Top Gun 2 ever got released in theaters. Today, Top Gun: Maverick premieres and he is feasting ...

And yet Patches found a way to make and eat a usable shoe nonetheless. And Patches is eating a shoe on YouTube. You can’t die right now.” As someone who relies on Patches on a daily basis, I have to agree. Patches himself went through a journey during this decade and change. In 2010, then-culture-journalist Matt Patches wrote a benign tweet: “If Top Gun 2 happens, I will eat a shoe.” In hindsight, he should have considered that dumb things said on the internet will haunt you forever. For a while, Patches’ tummy appeared to be pardoned.

It's a move as carefully calibrated as any of the top-line fighter jets Tom Cruise pilots throughout the movie. And there's a fist-pumping joy to watching an ...

"Maverick" takes its cues from a heist movie as much as an action one, carefully and repeatedly laying out the steps of a low-altitude mission in and around a snowy mountain pass in enemy territory. While the practical stunts in "Top Gun: Maverick" aren’t a million miles off from the work Cruise does in the "Mission: Impossible" films, "Maverick" sets itself apart with a knowingly corny earnestness. A titan of the genre, "Die Hard" is the little black dress of action movies: It works for every occasion. About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. The platform gives fans of entertainment, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is available completely free. Though Teller fits seamlessly into the "Top Gun" universe (as do Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell and a host of new Top Gun pilots), Maverick is the only character the movie really cares about. (The cast completed a three-month flight training course to be able to shoot the film largely in real jets.) But the biggest key to the film’s success is the refreshingly coherent staging of its action. Yet the best thing about "Top Gun: Maverick" is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously either. Not only is Pete ordered back to Top Gun to serve as a flight instructor, one of his students is Lieutenant Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw ( Miles Teller) — Goose’s grown-up son (disappointedly not nicknamed "Gosling") who’s got a grudge against his dad’s old friend. As "Top Gun: Maverick" opens, we learn Pete has spent the past 30-some years doing more of the same — refusing to climb the military ranks because he prefers to continue testing his limits as an active pilot. For as much as "Top Gun" is steeped in Cold War-era jingoism and 1980s masculinity, it also feels like the kind of earnest military spectacle that could’ve come out of the old Hollywood studio system. It’s a move as carefully calibrated as any of the top-line fighter jets Tom Cruise pilots throughout the movie.

Tom Cruise takes to the air once more in a long-awaited sequel to a much-loved '80s action blockbuster.

Which only confirms the sense that “Top Gun: Maverick” has nothing to say about geopolitics and everything to do with the defense of old-fashioned movie values in the face of streaming-era nihilism. At times Kosinski seems to be reaching for an updated version of the sun-kissed, high-style ’80s aesthetic that “Top Gun” so effortlessly and elegantly typified. Apart from the 2021 documentary “Val,” he hasn’t been onscreen much since losing his voice to throat cancer, and seeing him and Cruise in a quiet scene together is as sad and stirring as something from the Epic of Gilgamesh. There was a formidable — if mostly offscreen — real-world adversary (the Soviet Union, in case you forgot) and the hovering possibility of nuclear apocalypse. We never see the faces of the enemy pilots once the mission is underway. In the presence of a superior officer he is apt to salute, smirk and push his career into the middle of the table like a stack of poker chips. The first “Top Gun” unfolded against a backdrop of superpower conflict. The frat-house atmosphere of the ’80s has been toned down, and the pilots are a more diverse, less obnoxious bunch. In the last few decades, Pete has seen plenty of combat — Bosnia and Iraq are both mentioned — and pursued an on-and-off romance with Penny Benjamin (Jennifer Connelly). Now he finds her working at a bar near the base and an old spark rekindles. Pete is the instructor now, called back to the Miramar naval base to train a squad of eager young fliers for an urgent, dangerous mission. “Top Gun: Maverick,” directed by Joseph Kosinski ( “Tron: Legacy”), answers in the affirmative with a confident, aggressive swagger that might look like overcompensation. He’s one of the best fighter pilots ever to take wing, but the U.S. military hierarchy can be a treacherous political business, and Maverick is anything but a politician.

In 2010, when news first broke that star Tom Cruise and producer Jerry Bruckheimer were interested in making a sequel to the 1986 classic “Top Gun,” film ...

It’s also a hilarious tribute to the "Top Gun" franchise (in this case "Top Gun: Shoe") and film culture in general — complete with a Tom Cruise impersonator, a parody of the Kenny Loggins anthem "Danger Zone" and, yes, a lot of logistics about how one actually goes about eating a shoe. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at http://www.tubi.tv/. About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. The platform gives fans of entertainment, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is available completely free. And don’t worry, there’s a slightly less odd and somewhat sweeter treat at the end of this story too. But 12 years later — after a long development process and many pandemic-related delays — "Top Gun: Maverick" finally soars into theaters this weekend.

'Top Gun: Maverick' Finally Hits Theaters — Here's When You'll Be Able to Watch It Online · Plus: how to stream the original 'Top Gun' movie with Tom Cruise for ...

While you’ll have to wait a few weeks to stream Top Gun: Maverick online, you can watch the original Top Gun movie online free. That way, you can stream Top Gun from your Hulu app afterwards. Use your free trial to stream Top Gun free online and then choose to continue on with a Paramount+ subscription at the $4.99 price point or cancel anytime. For now, the only way to watch Top Gun: Maverick is in person. Top Gun fans eager to see Maverick on their screens at home will have to wait a little longer. Plus, below we’ve found how to reserve tickets to see Top Gun: Maverick in time for its premiere in theaters.