Johann
01-04-2004, 06:47 PM
Maybe this belongs in the guilty pleasures thread, but in any case this Zuck/Ab comedy is one of my all-time faves.
I saw it when it came out with my younger sister and we pestered our parents to buy the Beta tape. How's that for dating myself...
Val Kilmer was fresh out of Julliard when he was cast as Nick Rivers- the American singing sensation. I love how we learn how Nick got his name: "My father thought of it while he was shaving".
Kilmer is a damn good singer- he sings "Tutti Frutti", "How Silly Can You Get" and "Skeet Surfin'", and I actually tried to locate the soundtrack to this crazy movie. It exists, but I'm not paying collector prices for it. I just have to watch the movie I suppose...
The film? Insanely ridiculous. George Carlin said "a joke must have one thing way out of proportion" in order to be truly funny.
There are too many things out of proportion to count in Top Secret!.
Nick goes to Germany to put on a concert. Trouble is Germany is still Nazi Germany circa 1940- complete with stormtrooper helmets and SS uniforms. Nothing makes sense here, but then again, in a bizarro way it does.
The concert basically starts a war, and Nick and his leading lady Lucy Gutteridge (Hillary) are on the run for the last half of the movie. My sister and I spent hours in front of the TV watching Top Secret. We never got tired of it- The Incredible Shrinking Woman tape collected dust. We laughed so hard at this cornball flick.
(I still do- it still holds up!)
If anybody's seen it, I'm willing to discuss!
Some mindless chatter about a cheezy film sounds like it might be fun. So many great scenes...
I saw it when it came out with my younger sister and we pestered our parents to buy the Beta tape. How's that for dating myself...
Val Kilmer was fresh out of Julliard when he was cast as Nick Rivers- the American singing sensation. I love how we learn how Nick got his name: "My father thought of it while he was shaving".
Kilmer is a damn good singer- he sings "Tutti Frutti", "How Silly Can You Get" and "Skeet Surfin'", and I actually tried to locate the soundtrack to this crazy movie. It exists, but I'm not paying collector prices for it. I just have to watch the movie I suppose...
The film? Insanely ridiculous. George Carlin said "a joke must have one thing way out of proportion" in order to be truly funny.
There are too many things out of proportion to count in Top Secret!.
Nick goes to Germany to put on a concert. Trouble is Germany is still Nazi Germany circa 1940- complete with stormtrooper helmets and SS uniforms. Nothing makes sense here, but then again, in a bizarro way it does.
The concert basically starts a war, and Nick and his leading lady Lucy Gutteridge (Hillary) are on the run for the last half of the movie. My sister and I spent hours in front of the TV watching Top Secret. We never got tired of it- The Incredible Shrinking Woman tape collected dust. We laughed so hard at this cornball flick.
(I still do- it still holds up!)
If anybody's seen it, I'm willing to discuss!
Some mindless chatter about a cheezy film sounds like it might be fun. So many great scenes...