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Top Secret! (1984)
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Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 18
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other... Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other satirical stops along the way. East Germany is planning a cultural festival, and invites rock-and-roll singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) (but only after Leonard Bernstein can't make it). The festival, however is a mere distraction so that the Germans can launch a secret attack on a submarine fleet without being detected. Nick soon finds himself involved with the French resistance, encountering slapstick gags and film parodies every time he turns around. [More]
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Michael Gough
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Screenwriter: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Martyn Burke
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Reviews for Top Secret!
Memorable both for its spoofing of a wacky combination of Elvis movies, spy movies and Second World War intrigue films and for the fact that it's Val Kilmer's film debut.
The story has almost no momentum and runs out of gas, ending abruptly, but how can you knock a movie with so many gut-busting jokes?
Another piece of loony bin entertainment from the Abrahams-Zucker chuckle factory...inspired in its wickedly silly-minded skin
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