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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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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.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson
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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?

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Vincent Canby
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Serves up a veritable smorgasbord of comic bits.

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08/29/03
Carol Cling
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One of the funnier post-Airplane! free-for-alls

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07/18/03
Jon Niccum
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Another piece of loony bin entertainment from the Abrahams-Zucker chuckle factory...inspired in its wickedly silly-minded skin

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