We need you Topper, you're the best of what's left came from what movie?

The line “We need you, Topper—you’re the best of what’s left” comes from Hot Shots! Part Deux. It is spoken during the film’s setup, when Topper Harley is recruited for another rescue mission after earlier teams have failed.

Released in 1993, Hot Shots! Part Deux is the sequel to Jim Abrahams’s 1991 comedy Hot Shots!. Charlie Sheen returns as Topper Harley, a parody of the heroic action-film soldier. In this installment, Topper is persuaded to leave his retreat and lead a mission into Iraq to rescue hostages and the rescue teams sent after them.

The joke depends on the deliberately bleak wording. Instead of calling Topper “the best of the best,” the recruiters describe him as “the best of what’s left,” implying that the military’s finest candidates have already been lost. The line also sets up the movie’s escalating chain of rescue missions.

Part Deux primarily parodies Rambo-style action films, especially their lone-hero plots, military melodrama, jungle warfare imagery, and exaggerated masculinity. Its title itself is a comic blend of sequel language and mock-French sophistication.