Finally, an appropriate use of the word ‘underrated’. I’m sick of reading comments like “Titanic is underrated”, “Meryl Streep” is so underrated. No, they’re not!
One of many awesome scenes in a hilarious movie with so many good ones. I love all the tough looking attack dogs barking...then the cute little one busts through and chimes in! XD
When my Dachshunds are barking at someone, their Chorkie apprentice does the exact same thing. For the past 3 years, I've been flashing on this scene for that reason.
I'm German and I strongly believe its way funnier to watch if you actually understand German and catch up on all the German nonsense part, quite fascinating actually. The subtitles very rarely translate what is actually being said (well, it's hard to translate cause its mostly gibberish with some German words sprinkled in it, except the mayors speech)
This movie is a staple in our house. My four kids (all under 25) make their partners watch it and base their decision on whether they're 'keepers' on the reactions. A little odd but certainly understandable.
@@kamxam1384 I'll have to look that up,literally for giggles. I just looked it up. They don't have Skeet Surfin' or any of the good stuff. Bummer,dewd.
"Your attitude is being noted, Mr. Rivers" was hilariously subbed with: "Ihrä loggere Ard zu schbräschn isd hia fehl am Pladze (Ihre lockere Art zu sprechen ist hier fehl am Platze/ Your informal way of expression is unappropriate here)" which is a kind of east german burocratical language used by the armed forces and the Stasi. I can only emphazise to enjoy german subbing...
@@ricsip It's a mailing list where they never stop sending you catalogs. Only slightly less obnoxious than the calls about your car's extended warranty.
I should try to check how it was translated into brazilian portuguese. Ok... checked it in the original 80s dubbing in brazilian portuguese (available at Netflix). Nick says: "I said I would put his name on the list of a encyclopedia vendor" They were REALLY pesky in Brazil in the 80s.
THAT's the size of MilkBone dog biscuits they were looking for ! there's more sight gags in Top Secret than Frau Blucher meeting Terri Garr with speedbumps.
I was at a concert once, the performers were Scottish. The performers gave a little introduction before the music, and I couldn’t understand a word they said. Then they began to sing and I understood everything.
Wasn't Nick's manager played by the actor, who played the Admiral from "JB: Goldeneye"? The one, who got killed by the leg-scissor of Xenia Onatopp? (what a death..)
Yep, the late Billy J. Mitchell (died 1999). He was the town doctor in Rustler's Rhapsody, had a bit in Superman and I think a brief cameo in Down Periscope, among other movies. In addition to Goldeneye, he was in the unofficial James Bond flick Never Say Never Again. Probably the biggest movie he was in was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Okay, here's what the tutorial guys really saying (or what his gibberish could most likely mean): "An flash is in the flask cloth. Want have duty middles and the Heiner [a forename] Burstah!" I want i am the barn in the Bürgengasse [name of a street].
This is the kind of movie you really have to watch a couple of times to get all the jokes, and even then you'll miss a few. This movie was chockful with these kinds of visual jokes, not even counting the jokey dialogue. The ass-backwards scene in the bookstore is a masterpiece in itself.
When we watched the movie first time some 40 years ago, seeing a black conductor in East Germany, and even him, speaking German was the quite contrast, so I remember my friends were laughing in tears. Still I wonder , was this directors’ intention?
*Whatta memory you have. Saw this on TV as a little kid. Was so strange to see a B&W movie. Learned later all prints distributed for TV were B&W. Cheers!*
Never knew this movie existed but I’ve laughed more from a few clips than from any entire modern comedy… well, unless you count all ten seasons of friends maybe…. But I suppose they weren’t modern either as they were done decades ago.
On holiday in england 84/86 uncle gave us a video to play to keep us 7nutjobs quiet,, what can i say that backfired we watched tat movie back to back we had to missed half of it pure laughter would love to c it again ,, choocolate moouse /gota hand it to the germans they make great cars /
*As another commenter stated: Once on their mailing list the only way to get off it was to move. List filled your physical mailbox with slick-paper ads every week and a two pound+, 2-inch-thick catalogue landed on your doorstep with a thud four times a year. "Monkey Ward" sent old skool SPAM. Cheers!*
Old Hollywood movies with train departure scenes had a man (usually with a hat) running to catch it at the last second. When the platform departs here , a man with a hat runs to to catch that at the last second. Then the train departs, and a tree departs ahead of it, with man with a hat running to catch that at the last second.
The Montgomery Ward one? They are (were) a big retailer in the U.S., like Sears or J.C.Penny. Long before the internet. Getting on their mailing list meant getting tons of physical paper in your physical mailbox. The original spam, in a way. Super annoying.
Every 3 months you would get a 3inch thick seasonal catalogue in the mail, and there would regular sales ads too. Once on the mailing list the only way to get off was to move.
*It resulted in your physical mailbox being filled with slick-paper ads every week and a 2-inch-thick catalogue landing on your doorstep four times a year. Old skool SPAM. Cheers!*
*But so spot-on. Well, you had to venture past Checkpoint Charley to see for yourself. Under Walter Ulbricht, East Germany strived to out do both the Soviets and the Nazis. The normally laudable German spirit (especially engineering) of "we'll show them how it should really be done" but ethically unfettered and writ large. Cheers!*
+Dr Dykares It could be a reference to a popular German children's novel called "Emil und die Detective" (Emil and the Detectives) where at one point the lead character falls asleep on a train and has a dream similar to what we witness there.
