There are subtle jokes that if you blink, you’ll miss. Jokes that build off older jokes in the movie. It is the “joke a minute” humor that gets tossed at the audience. It sounds pretty straight-forward, but what you need to know about Top Secret is it is not so much the actual plot that sells it.
He gets caught up with some French Freedom fighters, and decides to help the stunning Hillary Flammond rescue her Father from East German forces. A mega-pop-star set to play a music festival in East Germany. Yes, as is always the case with me, it IS as insane as it sounds. Top Secret plays off that by having him pretty much play Elvis, if Elvis was caught up in a plot of political intrigue. While he may be a shadow of his former self (not literally), there is little denial that the man was once about as cool as they come. The Zucker Bros did it first, and the Zucker Bros did it best.įirst things first.
But if you have judged those kinds of films on their modern versions (awful examples being Scary Movie 5, Epic Movie, Movie 43) you have NO IDEA the brilliance you have missed out on. With that said, if you do not like slapstick, satire, or parody, you will not like this movie. comedy that very well may have the most over-quoted line in pop culture? Surely, you can’t be serious? I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley! Well, Top Secret is their follow-up to that amazing film. He was rocking the giant clock WELL before Flava Flav.įirst off, most of you have seen Airplane, right? The Zucker Bros. This movies is 80’s satire and parody at its finest. Though many people from generation X have seen and adore this absurd film, many of the younger generations don’t even know it exists, and that is why I chose to talk about it today. But it hits me that sometimes I need to step away from all that doom and gloom and offer you guys and gals a movie that will actually make you laugh. And two, because most people hide away from them. I gravitate towards those films for two reasons.
Films that feature broken people trying to make sense of a broken world.
I know normally for this column, I tend to write about very dark films.
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