Top Gun: Maverick has seen a lot of successes as a blockbuster movie, grossing an insane amount of 1.488 billion USD, which is a figure leagues ahead of the original, Top Gun. This sets it as one of the highest grossing movies of all time and fans and critics have no way of saying less. Top Gun: Maverick follows up the tragic event that occurred in the original Top Gun, with Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) having to face his friend Goose’s son, Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw (Miles Teller), after the latter was selected into the Elite squad of the US Navy, as a pilot to undergo a most outrageous mission. Seeing how well Top Gun: Maverick did despite being a sequel, it is most certain that the cast and crew did an amazing job to pull off such a feat and fans are surely not blinded to this.

Below are few of the things the sequel didn’t disappoint to give fans;

1. The Nostalgic Feeling It Brought

The original Top Gun movie has always been in the hearts of the fans, with a lot wanting to see how the casts would deliver a performance as good or even better than what they’d given in that movie. It however came as a surprise when a sequel was made, and also how it did well on the market, but a signature factor remains on how audiences were captured by the Nostalgic feeling which it provided. This Nostalgia was built up from scenes like when Rooster played a song which his dad and Maverick used to play a long time ago, when Maverick got to see Peggy, Rooster having to be Maverick’s backseater just like his dad did, and Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky getting to meet Maverick again.

2. The Casts Featured On The Show

The movie featured casts trying to portray characters from different generations in the movie. With actors like Tom Cruise as Maverick, Val Kilmer as Ice, Ed Harris as Cain, Jon Hamm as Cyclone, Jennifer Connnelly as Penny, and others playing the new generation of the Elite Top Gun squad with Greg Tarzan as Coyote, Danny Ramirez as Fanboy, Jay Ellis as Payback, Lewis Pullman as Bob, Monica Barbaro as Phoenix and Glen Powell as Hangman, there was a perfect blend of old generation names in the top gun and new generation names. This made for a more balanced story to be built which was sure to still keep the Original fans on lock and draw in new fans to the mix.

3. Insane Production Level

Despite the original doing alright in their production, Top Gun: Maverick was able to bring in more advanced production with the new technologies available being a huge part for this turn out. Capitalizing on what this movie sought to achieve all through, which is balance, there was a perfect blend of new technology trying to create perfect scenes like the mach 10 flight which was done by Maverick, without taking away that feeling of originality which some movies do with the overuse of CGI.

4. A More Spread Out Case Of Emotions

Both Top Gun movies had emotions that greatly enhanced the love which came from their audiences, but this was stronger in Top Gun: Maverick which has an emotional play well spread out across the movie at various strategic scenes. For instance, the build up of emotion between Maverick and Rooster that just seemed to happen without any plan in play, Maverick connecting with Penny and Ice, and Maverick thinking of Rooster as a son. The original Top Gun movie lacks in comparison with the amount of emotion that soars in Top Gun: Maverick.

Final Thoughts

With a success that trumps expectations from the sequels, Top Gun: Maverick has surely stamped its name on the hall of fame and given hope to writers who thought about sequels to their stories not being able to meet the expectations of viewers. Conveying so much attributes in story telling and performance, Top Gun: Maverick makes a stand against its original as being worthy of its gross.