Leofwine_draca 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.

Martin Gorne Arguably, one of the most important movies of the 20th century. This movie is not only dramatic and emotionally challenging, it also gives you a wider understanding of what life is really about. By watching this, you will grow as a human being!For the younger generation, this gives valuable insight on what oppression is all about and why you should make sure you understand a menu in a foreign country and not just order anything from it, or you'll easily end up eating flaming hog balls. I could go on for ever praising this move but skeet surfing really takes up most of my time this time of the year.

gavin6942 Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer (Val Kilmer) becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist (Michael Gough) imprisoned in East Germany.The film features a very young, very skinny Val Kilmer (look at those tiny legs). And apparently he not only does his own singing, but was dating Cher at the time... what the heck? She is 13 years older than him... weird.The German jokes are great, knowing they are not real German. Sadly, I do not know Yiddish so I do not fully get the humor and had to read the translations online. I suspect for those who speak it the humor is more instant and the film is better. Oh well.

Rodrigo Amaro "Top Secret" makes a goofy parody on the popular spy movies of the 1940's combining with some of the humor of the 1980's, and it's so dated that can only cause one or two haha's in the audience. Won't even bother detailing the messy plot. Really. Not funny. Maybe two or three jokes. That's it.Charismatic as usual, Val Kilmer delivers some fun while his leading lady has some appeal but we never heard from her again, so who cares; Michael Gough is the coolest guy of the film playing a scientist while Peter Cushing, in one of his final roles, is outrageously reduced to a part that consists of speaking in another language pretending to be German and you don't have a clue of what's he saying (at least in the version I've watched, I don't know if there's something understandable about his character). One of the main reasons I didn't enjoyed this is probably my current dislike in brainless movies that makes parodies on another movies. There's so much of them now, like Aaron Seltzer's flicks (I don't even bother in watch them, but every time I'm bombarded with more and more trailers of their upcoming projects), they're not funny anymore, and this one was quite sleepy, tedious, with few good parts (only the sexual jokes work). The ZAZ trio (Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker) at one time was the greatest team to make such movies and they were very good, being "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun" their biggest comical efforts. "Top Secret" is a big disappointment that consists of giving objects random purposes, characters falling to pieces like a jar crashing on the floor and ruthless scenes that don't cause any kind of amuse on us.And please, answer me this: in what year the story takes place? Everything looks so 1940's, Nazi German, but then there's this rock idol (Kilmer) who sings surf rock from the 1960's and there's devices and cultural references of the 1980's. It's so bloody confusing. Why bother, anyway? Endure for one hour and a half into a pile of wasted things is something to be treasured here and I don't suggest you to look for this. Comedies must accomplish more than a dozen of cheap laughters. 3/10