Fresh
The plot combines the rock musical with the spy thriller (not to mention assorted other genres), and the comic invention is fairly constant.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Top Secret!
Don't tell anyone.
1984 · 1h 30m · PG
Comedy
Directed by
Jim Abrahams
,
David Zucker
,
Jerry Zucker
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Top Secret!
Overview
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
Director and cast
- Jim Abrahams Director
- David Zucker Director
- Jerry Zucker Director
- Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers
- Lucy Gutteridge as Hillary Flammond
- Peter Cushing as Bookstore Proprietor
- Jeremy Kemp as General Streck
- Christopher Villiers as Nigel
- Warren Clarke as Colonel von Horst
- Harry Ditson as Du Quois
- Jim Carter as Déjà Vu
- Eddie Tagoe as Chocolate Mousse
- Omar Sharif as Agent Cedric
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Signs of desperation have begun to creep in some time before the end.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
This movie will cheerfully go for a laugh wherever one is even remotely likely to be found.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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