Top Secret!
The movie follows the intentionally silly adventures of American rock star Nick Rivers in East Germany, where he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
11 March 1950, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
23 November 1916, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya [now Malaysia]
5 March 1932, Czechoslovakia
21 March 1922, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
18 June 1944, Colchester, Essex, England, UK
19 August 1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
10 May 1944, Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA
18 June 1949, Long Island, New York, USA
October 18, 2011
Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker present a narrative that is hopelessly convoluted, but that, of course, is exactly their intention as they pile joke upon joke, filling their film with inventive sight gags.
October 18, 2011
Jokes so stupid as to seem almost surreal, an amazing range of cultural referents and a smattering of genuinely witty conceits.
March 26, 2009
Secret! shares the same wonderful wacky attitude that allows just about any kind of gag to come flowing in and out of the picture at the strangest times.
April 22, 2010
I found its spirited irreverence to be refreshing.
October 23, 2004
This movie will cheerfully go for a laugh wherever one is even remotely likely to be found.
October 18, 2011
This time, though, the creative group has neglected to build to the kind of giddy, everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink climax that made Airplane! such a memorable exercise in anarchy.
August 30, 2004
Top Secret! comes nowhere near Airplane! but in its own cheerful, low-pressure way, it's about as amiable an entertainment as you will find this summer.
February 09, 2006
Signs of desperation have begun to creep in some time before the end.
October 18, 2011
Featuring cows wearing boots, a scene involving skeet surfin' (filmed in Cornwall of all places), and French characters named 'Déjà Vu' and 'Avant Garde', this is an absurd comedy that hits far more times than it misses.
February 18, 2009
Memorable both for its spoofing of a wacky combination of Elvis movies, spy movies and Second World War intrigue films and for the fact that it's Val Kilmer's film debut.
October 18, 2011
The plot combines the rock musical with the spy thriller (not to mention assorted other genres), and the comic invention is fairly constant.
September 05, 2010
The story has almost no momentum and runs out of gas, ending abruptly, but how can you knock a movie with so many gut-busting jokes?
