Top Secret! (1984)

• Year: 1984
• Released: 22 Jun 1984
• Country: United Kingdom, United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/top_secret
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 720p
• Language: English, German, Yiddish, Latin, French
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
• Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
• Cast: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp
• Keywords: spy, beach, airplane, spoof, prisoner,

	7.2/10
	68/100

Top Secret! Storyline

In East Germany, the American rock and roll singer Nick Rivers meets Hillary Flammond in a fancy restaurant. Hillary is a member from the resistance and her hope is to rescue her father, the scientist Dr. Paul Flammond, who is imprisoned by the Germans to develop a powerful weapon. Nick is arrested and sent to prison for helping Hillary and he meets Dr. Flammond in his laboratory. Hillary helps him to escape during a show and when he tells that he has met Dr. Flammond in the prison to Hillary, they decide to seek out the resistance leader. When they meet him, they discover that Nigel was Hillary’s first lover. Further, they learn that there is a traitor in the resistance. Who might be the traitor?

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Val Kilmer Steals the Movie

In East Germany, the American rock and roll singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) meets Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) in a fancy restaurant. Hillary is a member from the resistance and her hope is to rescue her father, the scientist Dr. Paul Flammond (Michael Gough), who is imprisoned by the Germans to develop a powerful weapon. Nick is arrested and sent to prison for helping Hillary and he meets Dr. Flammond in his laboratory. Hillary helps him to escape during a show and when he tells that he has met Dr. Flammond in the prison to Hillary, they decide to seek out the resistance leader. When they meet him, they discover that Nigel (Christopher Villiers) was Hillary’s first lover. Further, they learn that there is a traitor in the resistance. Who might be the traitor?

“Top Secret” is a very funny comedy by Jim Abrahams and David Zucker. The plot is a parody to World Was II movies with the French resistance and it is impossible not laughing along the adventures of Nick Rivers in the East Germany. Val Kilmer steals the movie wit ha magnificent performance and singing most of the songs. In the end, time is cruel to everyone. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): “Top Secret – Super Confidencial” (“Top Secret – Super Confidential”)

Note: On 24 Sep 2017, I saw this film again.

a terribly unfunny film

How could the creators of Airplane and Airplane II follow up these great films with this dud?!? This is a mostly unfunny film. Shortly after I started watching the video, I was inclined to turn it off out of sheer boredom. However, I KNEW it must get better, so I waited, and waited, and waited. It never provided an eventual payoff and I realized I had wasted all this time for nothing.

Even for an Abrahams, Zucker and Zucker film, the plot was hard to follow and confusing. This was good in Airplane but in this case the movie just looked like the script had never been completed. And the jokes looked like they had never been tested out to see if they were actually funny (such as skits involving sex with cows and the use of an “anal intruder”–both very crude but just not funny in any way). My advice? See the Airplane films again or the Hot Shots movies–they provide more laughs in the first 5 minutes than Top Secret had in the entire movie.

A great deal of fun

TOP SECRET! is another hugely enjoyable movie spoof from David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, the guys who made AIRPLANE! and THE NAKED GUN; this nestles neatly between the two. It’s a scattershot, laugh-a-minute gag fest that sees an unorthodox hero (Val Kilmer, amusing enough, and who’d have thought he could sing too?) battling against an evil Nazi organisation in East Germany. The film was made as a spoof of spy thrillers and war films, so expect lots of zany antics and cliches that play out with unexpected results. The film is full of slapstick humour and the kind of surreal sight gags that worked so well in these movies. Alongside Kilmer, such luminaries as Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Jeremy Kemp and Omar Sharif are happy to play themselves up, and it’s so much fun that the running time belts past.