Top Secret (1984) *First Time Watching Reaction! | Hidden Comedy Gem |
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- Top Secret (1984) *First Time Watching Reaction! | Hidden Comedy Gem |
In this video we watch and react to seeing Top Secret for the first time. Top Secret is a 1984 spoof/comedy of spy movies. Top Secret stars Val Kilmer. Watch us react to seeing Top Secret for the first time. We also give our thoughts and rate Top Secret at the end. For more first time watching reactions subscribe to Force of Light Entertainment!
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Great reaction ladies ...This was another hilarious spoof comedy by the ZAZ team...Jerry Zucker, Jim Abraham & David Zucker and Val Kilmer's big screen debut (and yes that is his actual singing voice). Glad that you both enjoyed it.
Also the British actor playing Deja-Vu (Jim Carter) would later be more well known worldwide for playing Mr. Carson, the head butler on the award winning drama series 'Downton Abby'.
If you're looking for another ZAZ spoof movie, then check out their very first big screen outing, The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) - it spoofs Bruce Lee's: Enter The Dragon and television itself in general, including parodies of commercials too....also unlike their other films, which are mostly rated PG-13, this one is a hard R, but it is still hilariously funny though.
Cool reaction as always ladies, you both take care and have a nice day 🥰❤️😊
@@coreyhendricks9490thank you! You too! 🥰
@@MLJ7956 funniest movie ever made 😄
To think that this was Val Kilmer's first film role - and that was genuinely him singing the songs too! What an opening to his film career!
They're doing a mash-up, spoofing several things at once:
-- cold war spy movies
-- world war 2 action movies
-- late 50s early 60s teen movies especially Elvis Presley movies
-- and of course Blue Lagoon
Oh man, been wanting to see this ever since my family caught the first minutes on Pluto TV. If that's what it's making fun of, this is going to be a blast!
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Bonanza tv show, western fight scene trope also.
The great escape too
It’s a time-period mash-up too.
The underwater saloon fight has to be one of the most original ideas I've ever seen. It caught me off guard.
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@@ForceOfLightEntertainmentDirectors David Zucker and Jim Abrahams told ScreenCrush in 2014 that the actors in the scene held their breath underwater while they shot in 10 or 15 second increments, then returned to the surface. “The hardest part was not laughing and running out of oxygen,” added Kilmer. - Screen Crush
With the Bonanza theme at the end!
I love the Mohammed Ali moves during the fight scene
Between the underwater bar fight and the backwards scene, this is one of the most creative movies out there, as well as being outrageously funny. I've always loved this.
One of the greatest movies of the 80s. I still quote lines from it today.
No, you don't. You're just trying to impress the girls.
The movie was filmed in England, hence a lot of British actors. The surfing scene was made in Newquay and the water was very cold!
Deja Vu went on to be in Downton Abbey!
@@ajivins1 He's also married to Imelda Staunton, who played Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter, and the Queen in the later seasons of The Crown.
@@FrenchieQc I liked her in the sitcom 'Is it Legal?'
It's an underrated gem and much more elaborate than the "Hot Shots" movies.😂
You asked which movie this movie is spoofing. It is not a single movie, or even a single genre. Elvis Presley made several movies in the 1960s where he would break out into song several times during the show. This movie spoofs those movies. It also spoofs 1960s spy movies. ZAZ (Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker, the directors of this movie) did a kind of mashup where they combined those two genres and then spoofed them both.
Okay, how many of you are old enough to get the gag about the German car barely tapping the Ford Pinto and having it explode into flames? So many period gags in this movie, and if you weren't alive during this time, or have a good understanding of what happened, many of the jokes and gags will go over people's heads.
That said, this soon-to-be 59 year old loved the movie when it came out and still laughs at it today - it's in my online media collection.
I got the gag but that’s because I know my cars 😁
I love Top Secret and never understood why it didn’t catch on as much as Airplane and the Naked Gun.
Yes, it's a shame. I remember that, the second time I saw this movie, back in '84, I was the lone spectator in the theater.
(Although, on the bright side, I sat in multiple seats and reacted as wildly to the jokes as I cared to!) 😉
Primarily spoofing on Elvis movies, with the jukebox scene being lifted directly from Loving You in which Elvis’s name is Deke Rivers instead of Nick Rivers. Shop at Macy’s song is obviously Are You Lonesome Tonight, etc
One of my favorite Val Kilmer movies. To this day, whenever I see or hear the word latrine...I hear LATRINE! Of course I saw this in the theater at the age of 15 so I probably have a different perspective.
This movie is so dense with jokes it's easy to miss some. At one point the professor talks about his work on desalinization and asks do you know what that would mean for the poor nations of the world. Nick says Wow - they would never run out of salt!
Very shocked it didn't get more than 4. Both of you were laughing pretty hard, especially you Natalie. Great reaction as always.
4 is very good!
When I watched this, I think I might need to raise it to 4 and a half hoots.. 😜 👏
My sister loved this movie. I know every word of it because she watched it so much when we were growing up. Basically just a spoof of all the cold war espionage movies that were common back then.
One joke I love that often gets missed or causes confusion is the fact the movie takes place in communist, post-WW2 East Germany, but it is depicted like stereotypical WW2 Nazi Germany in regards to the uniforms, the militarism, the Nazi castle prison, etc. Or Nazi-occupied France even, considering there's a group of résistance fighters in the movie. Or maybe it's just an alternate timeline.
In point of fact, one might even call it the "trash compactor" technique of filmmaking, where the final product is a cinematic Frankenstein's monster that tap-dances on stage. (Waitaminnit - that's a _brilliant_ idea!!) 🤔 😃
Spoofing Elvis musicals and WW2 movies was the original intent, though obviously there's cold war and Beach Boys references. The movie used to be longer but they trimmed some of the jokes and kept them on the DVD as deleted scenes. I liked the sudden Pac-Man when they were doing the "Indiana Jones map with drawn arrow" bit, but it was 1984 so it was funnier at the time.
There were FOUR Doctor Who actors in the film. The easy ones are Peter Cushing and Michael Gough. Of the other two, one was a Dalek (Cy Town, playing one of the anthem singers) and another was Katy Manning's stuntman (not stuntwoman-- Stuart Fell, playing Avant-Garde).
Gorgeous hair, Natalie The Red.
Thank you ☺️ ❤
Wienerscnitzel is a legit German food. Its a cutlet of chicken or pork (occasionally veal) deep fried and treated like chicken strips...a step up from fast food, but not cuisine.
Best accompanied by beer. Though that's essentislly a given in Germany - they don't ask if you want a beer, they ask how many. Tip: Germans consider the thumb your first finger, so holding up just your index finger means you want two, not one, and you want the Dumb Tourist pricing scale. Holding up just your middle finger means you want to get beat up and have a bill for 3 beers sent to you in the hospital.
"The Spy"... You mean Hollywood legend Omar Sharif star of Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago?
Another really funny spoof movie that flied under the radar is 'Fatal Instinct" It spoofs movies like Basic Instinct, Cape Fear, Sleeping with the Enemy, Fatal Attraction and The Postman Always Rings Twice. OH! You ladies HAVE to watch the Steve Martin movie "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid." It's not a spoof movie. It's a parody film noir 1930s gangster movie. But, it's shot in B&W because it has clips from classic gangster movies edited in. I highly recommend it and you two will love it. Please consider.
This sounds really funny!! Thanks!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment
Enthusiastic seconding for *Plaid.* Don't take _too_ long, now! 🤭
The movies spoofed in Top Secret! per IMDb:
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Hillary saying goodbye to the resistance fighters, ending with her saying goodbye to the Scarecrow.
Ministry of Fear (1944)
The Conspirators (1944)
Hillary, like Irene, is present at the shooting of a colleague in an alley and flees to a restaurant, taking refuge at the table of a stranger. A blind man in the street selling goods from a case hanging from his neck features in both films.
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Betrayed (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Nick throwing a policeman off a theater balcony parodies the climactic ending.
Loving You (1957)
Jukebox scene is same as in "Loving You"
The Great Escape (1963)
Nick jumping the fences on a motorcycle.
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Singing horse sings this Beatles song.
Goldfinger (1964)
Villains crushing a car to kill the man inside and dispose of both.
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Skull (1965)
Sleuth (1972)
The Bookstore Proprietor looking through a magnifying glass when he already has reading glasses
Jaws (1975)
Theme song plays when pulls pursues the disguised cow.
The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
Motorcycle scene, raiding the fortress scene, resistance members
Elvis (TV Movie 1979)
Singing 'Tutti Frutti' in a German restaurant.
Pac-Man (Video Game 1980)
A chase scene gets turned into the video game.
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Hillary's backstory on a deserted island parodies this movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Parodied when Nick rescues Hillary from the Nazis.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
After the underwater bar fight, Hillary's glowing bosom resemble E.T.'s glowing heart.
Thank you!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment You're wwlcome and thak you for a great reaction! Also, I forgot to mention that Val Kilmer sang a majority of the songs, yes, actually sung them
This is my favorite spoof of all time! I love The Naked Guns/Airplanes/Hot Shots, but this was always a notch above those for me
the original airplane..theres a bunch of these ...naked gun(s).hot shots..1&2
To me not a patch on naked guns humor but still has its funny moments ladies.
Catch ya on the High road!
Another thing is Val Kilmer played alongside Michael Gough in this and fascinatingly enough they were in Batman forever together also
One of the best but least known comedies of all time. Worth it for Peter Cushing and Omar Sharif having immense fun
The whole backwards library scene with Peter is amazing. I still have trouble wrapping my mind around some of the gags 🤯
Maybe better known now. But it was a box office disappointment. It needed to make over $20 million to break even and made just under that. Compare that to the over $170 million Airplane! made.
@@LordVolkov That they filmed backwards and in a single take is astonishing work
Val Kilmer's singing is on the sound track but he's only listed as Nick Rivers.
My all time favorite #1!!
Omar Shariff, one of the best film actors, ever had a ball doing this movie.
Ah, that's his name. Couldn't think of it. All I could think of was Dr. Zhivago (or however that is spelled)
One of the most underrated of the 80’s spoof movies.
"Wait! You dropped your phony dog poo!"....."What phony dog poo?".
Ah. Top Secret, the finest Elvis WW2 Spy Movie ever made.
And for you younguns, Mel Torme was a jazz singer popularly known as "The Velvet Fog" due to his smooooth vocal stylings. He was active from the 40s to the 60s. He was also Judge Harold T. Stone's from Night Court's favorite musician.
... I will now need to explain what Night Court was as that reference is also 30-40 years old now....
Oh, and for another young Val Kilmer comedy, Real Genius.
Add my vote for Real Genius.
The Indiana Jones style truck chase that turns into an underwater saloon brawl is probably one of the greatest jokes in cinema
My favorite comedy movie of all time and the movie I have seen the most times. Truly a hidden comedy gem. As a Swede the Swedish bookstore bit is a highlight. Our dogs do indeed walk backwards.
Haha!
And to think a year later Val Kilmer was in TopGun and became a big star it's so sad that such a talent has had voice stolen by cancer a fantastic actor ❤
Here are a couple of genres/movies they are spoofing:
1. Elvis concerts/movies. In fact the name Nick Rivers is a take on Elvis' character Deke Rivers in the movie "Loving You."
2. James Bond/Spy movies - the car crushing scene is taken directly from a similar scene in "Goldfinger."
3. WW2 movies such as Casablanca (dialogue during the parachute scene), the Great Escape (motorcycle scene just like Steve McQueen), Dirty Dozen, etc.
4. 60's beach movies such as Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, etc.
5. Indiana Jones with the truck fight scene.
There are plenty of other smaller nods to things, but these are the most obvious ones. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks Chris!!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment Also you have Nazis in communist East Germany!? But the athletes--that was true, most country's produce coal or wood or food. But East Germany, their claim to fame was athletes. In their propaganda drive to prove that Communism was superior to the West, all their athletes were trained in government training facility's and pumped up with massive dose,s of steroids. They did win many Olympic medals, but the athletes paid a horrible price, some died other were crippled. But that,s communism, the Party is everything, the individual is worthless.
Very good breakdown.
From what I heard, the face-cast they took of Peter Cushing for the big eye prosthetic, was what they used to generate the digital Moff Tarkin in Rogue One
"I guess this is Germany before the Berlin Wall fell?"
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It's a general parody of 'singer-features' (movies headlined by the likes of Elvis, Frankie Valley, etc) mixed with post WW-2 cold war thrillers. I think the decade is intentionally vague.
That little German joke is a derivative of the “I had a hunch back at the station” joke from the Police Squad series
One of my fave “dumb” movies. The “Pinto” car joke gives away how old it is.
as does the Montgomery Wards mailing list
"Top Secret!" was a follow-up film after "Airplane!" was a huge success, both made by the same team. It was a spoof of intrigue, thriller, espionage movies generally.
Hard to believe this is Val Kilmer's first movie. Though bittersweet given his current health problems, Val crooning his way through this wacky spy parody is so lovely. He's just so charming and talented here it's wild that this is his debut.
The underwater saloon fight is easily my favorite scene. It's so well done, completely absurd, and absolutely hilarious.
You ladies would also love Val in The Doors and Real Genius (for starters, he has a ton of great movies)
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They just don't do scenes like that anymore. Not without CGI anyway. Such a shame.
@@Kickinwyng Way of Water got pretty close, pre-CGI enhancement. Large water tank sets, free diving trained actors, and off-screen O² assist divers.
But it's also miserable to shoot in, being wet and cold all day, and James Cameron has almost gotten people killed doing similar work in The Abyss, which is why it is not done so much these days 😅
The skeet surfing joke came up while the filmmakers were doing interviews for Airplane!. At one point, they got bored answering the same questions all the time. So they invented this game where they would say the silliest thing in the most serious way to the point that it would be taken at face value and printed in the newspaper. When asked, "What did you do during your teenage years in Milwaukee?", they would talk about skeet surfing.
Highly recommend the old david lettermen interview with all three of them from back in the day. It’s hysterical. They change clothes with each other during commercial breaks.
This is a 6 out of 5 for me… I just love it! Must have seen it like 150 times😂
A lot of the "German" language used in the movie is actually Yiddish spelled to look like German. For example, the restaurant is named "Gey Schlüffen". "Gay schluffen" is actually Yiddish for "Go to sleep".
"Loaded Weapon" is a spoof of Lethal Weapon. Very funny spoof with surprising stars. 😂😂😂
Loaded Weapon. 😉
@@victornewmanforever Thanks! I knew that and still typed 'gun'. Fixed! 🙂
A few scenes not in this version:
One of Flomaunds assistants makes an apple. Flomaund tosses the apple outside and it explodes like a gernade.
At the very end, the German general is brought to the same crushing yard that Cedrick was brought to...and dropped into the same crusher...which is being operated by cedrick...still encased in the car.
Val does all his own singing in this movie
The backward German library scene is the best acted scene in movie history. The movie is making fun of old spy movies and the ridiculousness of the Elvis movies. Val Kilmer actually sang all those songs, as well. Skit Surfing is my jam!
my brother and i watched this many times as kids. we still say this line to each other: "how do we know he's NOT Mel Torme?" LOL
My favorite line is "What's your hurry?!!"
5:36 Funny how this movie decades ago would predict what women athletes will look like in a few years.
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After Airplane!, the filmmakers couldn't decide which genre they'd spoof next between WWII spy thrillers or Elvis' musicals so they decided to combine both!
Except for The Great Escape, the most famous movies that are spoofed are not related to Elvis or WWII: Goldfinger (the man crushed in the car), The Blue Lagoon (Hillary and Nigel flashbacks), Jaws (the cow attack), the tv series Bonanza (the underwater saloon fight), the Wizard of Oz (the final goodbye).
Some references are honestly more obscure, like 1944's The Conspirators (Hillary fleeing to a restaurant after witnessing the shooting of a colleague in an alley and taking refuge at the table of a stranger. A blind man in the street selling goods from a case hanging from his neck.)
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Greatest underwater fighting scene ever made!
I still remember a Halloween party where a buddy of mine showed up in, IMO, one of the best costumes ever - one of the male ballet dancers from Top Secret!
Montgomery Ward was a department store if anyone is interested.
Wow what a surprise didn't expect you to react to this great movie. This is from the same directors and Airplane and The Naked Gun Trilogy. Other great Val Kilmer movies are Wilow and The Saint. Other great spoof movies are Loaded gun which is a spoof on the The first 3 Lethal weapons movies and Silence Of the Hams which A spoof on Silence of the Lambs. This movies general classic spy/war time movies and also make fun of Elvis and The Beach Boys. A great 80's spy comedy you should see not a spoof is Gotcha!
Innerspace (1987) is funny too.
Things change
People change
Hairstyles change
Interest rates fluctuate
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen this movie! Nice trip down memory lane 😊! Thanks ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!!
When you stage a whole backwards scene for one linguistic gag. Now that's class!
12:00 "Now, remember, folks, you have to perform this scene _completely_ straight-faced. It's an absurd scene, and that absurdity is intensified for the audience if you don't react to it, so don't react to it. One smile and we have to start over."
"Oh I know a little German". Brilliant 😁😁
"And I'll miss you most of all scarecrow" The cherry on top.. That's hilarious.
It's such a great joke mixed into the Casablanca farewell spoof 🤣🤣🤣
MIC N NAT watch these Val movies
1.Real Genuis 2.The Saint 3.The Ghost And The Darkness 4.Red Planet 5.True Romance 6.Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
I must add, he gave an arresting performance in *The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains* as well. (If you look that one up, don't neglect its legendary predecessor, 1931's *I Am a
Fugitive From a Chain Gang,* as well. 😎
Val Kilmer did his own singing. Check out Val ‘s other comedy Real Genius.
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This spoofed so many movies. The Great Escape, etc
Yea, do you know which ones it had in mind?
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment- Movies and TV shows that 'Top Secret' spoofs are
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Bonanza (1959-1973)
Casablanca (1942)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Music For Millions (1944)
The Great Escape (19663)
The Third Man (1949)
Mad Max (1979)
Cloak & Dagger (1946)
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)
Konga (1961)
Ministry Of Fear (1944)
The Blue Max (1966)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
Darling Lili (1970)
Jaws (1975)
M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
The Conspirators (1944)
Elvis movies genre
Elvis: The Miniseries (1979)
The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
Betrayed (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Skull (1965)
Cold war movies genre
Loving You (1957)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
WWII movies genre
Sluth (1972)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Monkees (1966-1968)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
The Adventures Of Superman (1952-1958)
Beach Movies genre
Beach Boys songs
And of course 'Pac-Man' the video game...
I wish more channels reacted to Wrongfully Accused, "he's got a leg!!"
I go by Nick Rivers when on Internet forums, introductions with auto salesmen, and Craigslist deals.
❤👍🏼 I think when the horse was singing that was a spoof of FIDDLERS ROOF & motorcycle honk was from ROADRUNNER cartoon. So Alfred was in this movie before Batman. I guess I only watched the sanitized TV version of this movie.. I hope Natalie has recovered from her hyper ventilating or hiccups 😊
So I think the only other pure comedy film Val Kilmer has done is REAL GENIUS as far as I know
P.S. I did remember the blue lagoon guy was a traitor so Michelle kudos for reading the tea leaves on that one
Such a great movie. I've seen it 100 times but still makes me laugh.
The time frame isn't really specified but the Germans are not nazis, just Germans. The movie is a combination of Elvis and Spy movies from the 50s and 60s.
I was so disappointed that Skeet Surfing never really caught on
This was Val Kilmers, first movie role.
Young Val Kilmer? Watch Real Genius.
This is the best and funniest of the ZaZ (Zucker, Abrams, Zucker) movies imo.
Love this movie, seen it 85 times lol, still funny. Thank you, ladies.
Lol...Natalie was really diggin' that bulging tights scene!
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Val Kilmer was actually offered a recording contract after this movie was released, but he declined.
I have this film on my list on Paramount Plus if it's good I will watch it and looking beautiful as always ❤❤
TRUST ME on this MUST SEE absolute Classic Movie,, "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
(1976)..A truly iconic movie. ❤
Spy hard and gods must be crazy are two other spoofs you need to check out.. guaranteed to make u laugh
I have a friend who grew up in East Germany and was in one of their athletic programs growing up. The scene with the East German women's athletes was scarily spot on lol.
Now you have to watch Gotcha with Anthony Edwards.
Now y'all have to check out "Scary Movie" (2000), which spoofs 1990's flicks like Scream, Sixth Sense, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and many others. I think you'd get a kick out of it.
Would but we have seen them!
Love these slapstick comedies. I remember sneaking in to watch this in the theater when I was 13
This isn't even remotely slapstick comedy.
Top Secret Laughing Out Loud and Dancing is so Much a Force of Light, same team that did Airplane made Top Secret
The makers of this movie said they were spoofing WW2 and Elvis films. A few years ago, I turned on my TV and Downton Abbey was on. I was surprised to see Deja Vu in the cast.
Did you feel like you'd seen him before?
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Another great comedy with Val Kilmer is Real Genius. Kind of Ryan Reynolds before Ryan Reynolds.
Thank you!
This is my favorite of the ZAZ(Zucker Abrahm Zucker) films with the likes of Airplane. It's probably one of my top 5 favorite comedy films period.
If you ever get around to it, you should check out another great underrated comedy also starring Kilmer called Real Genius!
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You should check out Spy Hard with Leslie Nielsen and Andy Griffith. It's a spy spoof movie with all the usual types of jokes you'd expect from The Naked Gun movies!
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Wow, this Top Secret comedy is really your kind of jam girls, lot of fun watching this one!
Thanks! We love stupid humor 😂
Val Kilmer has one of the most underrated careers of all time.
Casablanca as well and the TV show Bonanza a western.
This film is an example of a dumb film done well.
Ever since your Airplane! reaction, I was looking forward to your reaction to this one. :)
Hope you enjoyed it!
4:28 Believe it or not, but back in day, long ago, when they were young, my mother dated the man who played the German officer. Warren Clarke, his name was.
That's the story, at least.
Cool!
NIGEL!
One of the funniest movie's ever made.
How about watching Police Academy 2 😀
What happened to the first one??...