Top Secret! (1984) | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction 

This movie and Airplane are the best in this type of humor.

I think this is still my favourite flm, 20 years after watching it. The most dumb fun!

when Nigel told he was abused and she hugs him saying it must have been awful, and then he smiles when she is not looking, I don´t think it means it was a bullshit story. I think it means he actually enjoyed it.

As with the other Zucker brothers movies there are jokes in the credits. Why the French resistance are in East Germany and the Nazis are in charge but also friends with the Russians is not entirely clear, but it means they can parody more war,nas well as spy movies.

Just so you know that WAS Val Kilmer singing ... he sang all his own songs in the movie, and a few months after the movie's release Passport Records released a 6 song record of the songs with two different covers, one with his real name, and limited one using his movie name.

One thing about this movie, Vs. HotShots, is that this movie takes itself a little more seriously, even though it is a comedy. That makes it a more refined production. There's some easy comedy, but no lazy comedy. It takes a lot of devotion to detail to pull off the Swedish Bookstore scene, and the underwater brawl. I think you guys are one of the few reactors to notice the East German setting. The movie has the feel of an old war movie, but it's actually set in relatively contemporary times. (To the time it was released ) It mentions the Carter administration, and it has a Pinto. It probably takes place somewhere in the 70's or 80's.

The underwater fight scene is pure genius.

Yes, Val Kilmer did sing these songs. (He may look like he's lip-syncing because he is, but he's lip-syncing to his own recording made in a sound booth.) His performance here is in fact how he landed the Doors movie role. This movie proved he could sing as well as act.

Interesting trivia, the head cast they made of peter cushing for the giant eye prosthetic is the same cast that disney laser-scanned to digitally render him in rogue one

This is actually a parody of Elvis Presley war movies such as G I Blues, etc. Which is why the songs are modified Elvis song.

I love this movie, combining Elvis movie parody into war & spy movies is so funny

You guys actually got the jokes. Other reactions I've seen are bad.❤

gotta love the French Underground... in EAST GERMANY, resisting German occupation of East Germany.lol

Also by them (or some of them) Kentucky Fried Movie and BASEketball.

8:59 meet the ZAZ team

15:21 they never saw blue lagoon either. So how they managed to spoof a movie they never even knew about is...puzzling.

"My uncle was born in America." "Oh, really?" "But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency." Fun Fact: Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker appear as the German soldiers who show up at the door of the prop room to arrest Nick (Val Kilmer). Final Bow Fact: Peter Cushing, who began his screen career in the old Hollywood of the late 1930s, makes his final appearance in an American production. He made three more British films before passing in 1994. Music Enthusiast Fact: The songs that Val Kilmer sings in the film are actually performed by Val Kilmer himself and were featured on the film's soundtrack released in 1984 under Kilmer's character's name Nick Rivers. When Nick Rivers is in jail, a head shot of Cher can be clearly seen on the wall of the cell several times. Val Kilmer was dating Cher at the time. The Bookstore Scene Fact: The scene where Hillary (Lucy Gutteridge) and Nick (Val Kilmer) go into the Swedish bookstore was staged, shot, and then run backward for a "unique" sound. If you record the scene and play it backward, you will find all of the dialogue to be exactly what is shown in the subtitles except for the title of the book. "Europe On Five Quaaludes A Day" (which I can't confirm as real) is what Hillary asked for. A forward-playing version of the Swedish bookstore scene can be found on the DVD. The sight gag of Peter Cushing and the magnifying glass is a parody of a similar shot of Cushing from Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The prosthetic that Peter Cushing wore in the bookshop scene involved the making of a cast of his face to fit it to. This same cast was used 30 years later by ILM to build a CGI model of his face for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).