Stars: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Cushing, Christopher Villiers

Director: Jim Abrahams

Summary: An American pop singer is pitted against the evil East German High Command in a race to prevent the ultimate weapon from being built. A comic spoof on World War II spy movies.

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.

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In between the disaster movie satire Airplane!in 1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked Gunin 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker put together a picture that's almost as funny as their better-known hits. Top Secret!sends up spy movies and cheesy teen rock 'n' roll musicals. Val Kilmer stars as swivel-hipped American rocker Nick Rivers, a sort of blonde Elvis whose secret weapon is Little Richard's tune "Tutti Fruitti." On tour behind the Iron Curtain, Nick strikes blows for democracy overtly and covertly, with his music as well as his espionage skills. In short, this is a very, very silly motion picture. Some great gags, including a subtitled scene in a Swedish book shop, and an inspired bit with a Ford Pinto that not everybody may get anymore. (The Pinto, you may or may not recall, was notoriously prone to gas tank explosions when rear-ended.) --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary - 1. Jerry Zucker - Director, Alternate Scenes, Trailer - 1.Original Theatrical Trailer
Year:	1984
Release Date:	November 4, 2002
Runtime:	86 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8196
Keywords:	Top, Comedy, General, Secret, Wide, Screen
Genre:	Comedy