At 16:24, note how Val Kilmer lurches as the "train" moves in order to make it more believable. So much attention to detail to sell the dumbest jokes. This movie is genius.
I wanna say its just building gags out of real setups and conventions like its some easy thing, but that was as much a craft as actually doing the real deal.
The underwater fight scene is a good example of why ZAZ movies were amazing. After deciding what the gag was going to be, they implement it 100% seriously with proper filmmaking effort. That underwear fight used excellent practical effects. They had weighted shoes and really were in a tank underwater, holding their breath during the takes.
6:34 In a movie with a plot, the fate of the resistance-leader would have been more clear. Do the cowboys put him in jail? What for, brawling? Do they summon witnesses to his greater crimes? Does he drown? You'ld think so but Hillary already thought he'd drowned when he never came back to the island. He has a history of getting rescued by political factions.
Yeah it’s a ridiculous fight scene, but the way he just easily drowns Nigel, is intentionally anticlimactic like it’s not meant to be a big fight it’s just two guys fighting, but the ending of it is bizarre the strange goodbye line even though she could have probably said it normally since she’s a mermaid.
The Montgomery Ward Mailing List was: If you were on it, you would get this huge cumbersome catalog more frequently than you would like. It was like a phone book. You had to carry it from the mailbox and then you had to get rid of it somehow because another one was on the way.
I didn't get it specifically because i'm not American. But I recall immediately imagining it as any number of mailing lists where one keeps getting essentially harrased by excessive mailer after mailer.
Ja ja ja Soy de Argentina, de chica lo ví y no entendía lo que era una parodia y los chiste. Ahora de grande la volví a ver y morí de risa desde el comienzo. Es una lástima que al buscarlo en las diferentes plataformas de peliculas en castellano y/o español latino, algunos de los chistes se deformen un poco pero la magia y la diversión están ahí. Me encanta Val kilmer. Lo redescubrí este año gracias a Internet y pude ver la mayoría de sus trabajos. Me encanta .
Jay: So Marshall, what did you think of Top Secret? Eminem: You know a lotta people think you can't rhyme nothing with orange. It's real easy though you just gotta think outside the box. Jay: *stares off in distance*
I think you guys get exactly why I love the underwater fight scene. It's just so ridiculous, it's so dumb, it keeps building on with extra features like the bartender and the card-players, and it clearly took _way too much talent and effort_ to film, that it pretty much automatically becomes funny. It was the very definition of "crazy awesome".
Near the there's a marquee advertising a Nick Rivers concert for a few seconds. At the bottom of the sign it says "And time permitting, Frank Sinatra."
I always referred to these sort of films as _"laugh-a-minute"_ comedies. And while Abrahams and the Zuckers are largely responsible for the golden age of this style of comedy, please don't forget their collaborator and writing genius, Pat Proft. He's largely uncredited in these films. His film "Real Genius" is a great example of his writing talent.
I think ultimately he plans to embed himself in a big block of melted movie merch tat, like what happened to that guy Harrison Silo in that 70s sci-fi movie
Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker are the masters of the spoof-comedy genre,along with Mel Brooks.Abrahams also directed the 2 excellent '' Hot Shot'' movies on his own. There's no comparison between these guys and the creators of the ''Date/Desaster-whatever Movies''.
Man I watched Top Secret for the first time today and I say that it has to be one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen! I haven’t laughed throughout a movie in the longest time! Highly underrated movie.
The serious orchestral music in these films for me is a huge part of why I laugh. Every now and then I watch the dog biscuit joke and I laugh out loud every single time. My fave gag ever I think.
This movie was forbidden fruit to me for over twenty years. It came out when I was 11, and I sooo wanted to see it after watching the previews, but my mom refused to take me to it: it was too silly, not highbrow enough, and I think the scene of the girl with her boobs in the sand deeply offended mom's feminist sensibilities. I finally got to see it at age 32 when I met a friend who had the DVD. I was so excited when he suggested watching it, and it was worth the wait!
no joke, the underwater fight scene is a stunning achievement in moviemaking, and the best thing about it that it's simply done for a bunch of silly gags. fantastic. love the whole movie.
@14:00 That was actually one of the things that I LOVED about Weird Al's UHF movie. I felt like it was a fantastic combination of the Nielsen dead-pan approach to comedy with the inherent absurdism that is Weird Al. The turtle scene, for example, will always make me laugh; "their nature's suction cup ;)"
Getting put on the Montgomery Ward mailing list would get your mailbox stuffed with giant catalogs every single week. It was a nightmare. You couldn't fit anymore mail in the box.
Man don’t sleep on these Re:Views. This is the third movie these guys have helped me realize exists that I keep adding to my list! First a David Byrne movie and now a Zucker movie I didn’t know about!?
I thought that the cow scene was one of the funniest in the movie. You had two resistance fighters in an obvious cow suit walking around in boots. Then in the next shot you saw a real cow in the same boots. A calf sees them and there's gag, later a bull notices them and the Jaws theme starts to play. It was great.
You guys say theyre aren't any straight comedies any more, but they exist they just aren't funny and they all star Malissa Mccarthy. That said, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the Worlds End I think classify as spoof movies and they are great.
Hot Fuzz has elements of parody, but isn't a straight up comedy in the way Airplane or Top Secret are. Shaun of the Dead is a straight up zombie genre film sprinkled with humor. World's End is kinda a genre mashup of action, comedy, and sci-fi, so it's not very spoofy either. I struggle to think of any recent pure comedy spoof movies. After the grossout comedies of the mid-late 90s, comedy took a dramatic turn in the early 2000s with Anchorman. Comedy has never left the Anchorman doldrums since. Every comedy now ever has to have the same improvised, ridiculous and irreverent dialogue that made Anchorman so popular. This annoying trend is the main reason Ghostbusters 2016 sucked ass...no script with constructed jokes, just improvisational and referential humor.
TOP SECRET! I loved this movie as a kid, my dad and i watched the VHS all the time! Wow what memories ☺️ Im really glad you guys did an episode on it. It means more people may hunt it down. So many people who worked on Airplane! worked on Top Secret, but it has nowhere near its predecessors fame. Thanks RLM for making this episode! Its always great to hear from you fucking clowns 🤗
Love when they are introducing the french resistance members and they all have names based on French words "Latrine!" and the black guys name is "Chocolate mousse"
I have it on DVD as well and treasure it among the top comedies every made, along with those by Mel Brooks in his early days - The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1 and Spaceballs.
Top Secret! Is easily the best Zucker brothers movie. It completely bombed at the box office, but it is a masterclass in the art of film comedy. Way better than Airplane or the Naked Gun trilogy, and those are great, too! Criminally underrated classic.
Sadly, we will probably never see this brand of comedy anymore. All the inventive staging, clever set ups and visual humor will cost too much effort and money for Hollywood nowadays.
Check out Tag and Game Night. Game night especially had some very nice visuals and cinematography. I wouldn't say that they're necessarily on this level but as far as a straight, he goes there both standouts in recent memory and pretty clever.
No Monty Python's humor is much more surrealist satire and philosophy. Mel Brooks definitely made spoofs but they were more screwball style. What Colin and Jay were saying in this review is that the spoof films in the 90s specifically tried to capitalize on the popularity of ZAZ films which had a as-many-gags-as-possible style.
Oh man, "Top Secret" was and still is one of my favorite spoof films. Had a great story, hilarious dialog and scenes and the soundtrack was great with Val's various Elvis-like tunes. He's an excellent singer. Love all of the Zucker Bros. movies. They were properly done spoof comedies compared to the random garbage of later imitators like those mentioned. Ughhh, terrible films. OMG, I didn't even think about Michael Gough being in the film with Val, both before their Batman stints together. Totally agree that the Zucker comedies are works of art. Loved that little Monty Python reference with the "Naked Gun" scene where the waiter is missing the backside of his pants. That's literally taken directly from "MP at the Hollywood Bowl" live show where they group sing "Sit On My Face" in waiter outfits and walk off the stage with their bare butts showing. "Top Secret!" was the fourth to last film Peter Cushing did before his death. His last was and still is one of my favorite adventure comedies, Biggles: Adventures in Time, from 1986.
Me and my Dad nearly got thrown out of the cinema watching this. Can't remember the last time I watched a comedy and was crying with laughter so hard that I miss the next gag. A typical scene when we watched any of them. What happened to their popularity, IMO, was that the style became predictable to an extent. The unexpectedness of the comedy became ...well...expected. That said, if you stay away from the ZAZ classics long enough, you can come back to them again and again, and relive the pure pleasure of laughing out loud at silly shit..
It's really one of those comedies where a small joke hits you and you laugh but as you're laughing you catch the bigger joke and then you're not able to breathe from laughing so hard. It's the timing of everything.
Not Another Teen Movie is by far the best spoof movie made in the past 20 years. It's much more in line with Airplanes joke-a-minute, setups and payoffs then it is with Date Movie, Superhero Movie, or any other spoof movie "Movie"
The "Montgommery Ward Catalogue" joke is that once you were on their mailing list you would NEVER ESCAPE receiving mail from them AGAIN. I feel that "mailing list" was the "telemarketer" of the late 70s and early 80s. The film "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" fits into this genre, too, I would say. I would love to see a re:View on that film as well...
On your commenting why this movie is not as well remembered as the other ZAZ productions...One of my theories about the cold-ish initial reception of "Top Secret" was that both "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" were skewering overused movie and TV tropes that were, at the time, ripe for parody. "Airplane!" came at the end of the the disaster movie glut of the seventies, and "Police bɒυpƧ" and with it "The Naked Gun" came during the glut of serious, straight-forward TV cop shows. You could have watched one of the "Airport" disaster movies and then went immediately to see "Airplane!" I'd guess that Top Secret would have been more warmly received if Elvis and war movies had been more recent in the public's minds. This is not a knock on the movie itself; I just often wondered myself why no one seemed to remember this awesome comedy.
To the surrealism point this is genuinely the first movie I've seen that actually feels like a cartoon, some movies feel cartoony but I haven't seen any go for direct cartoon gags. Just in this video the man shattering into pieces and the bikes being horses would be straight out of any basic cartoon.
Michael Gough - Goff, not Go, my dear speech-afflicted chaps. But apart from that, absolutely spot on. When I first saw Top Secret (I was 12 in 1984) I was asked to leave the cinema for "laughing too much" - I had a fierce chat with the manager about the unfairness of that, and he gave me free tickets to see it again. Just showed it to my similarly aged son and he needed me to pause it regularly so his laughs didn't interrupt the next jokes.
I think Scott Pilgrim might be the closest modern equivalent - yes, its on the other side of the line between spoof movies and movies which primarily tell a story but still, Scott Pilgrim just having left (out of the window) is somewhat similar humor.
@@oo1721 High Anxiety is alot like the movie movies where the film is more focused in referencing the source material (Hitchcock shots instead of dumb pop culture) rather than making jokes.
Hi there! I don't watch your videos normally, but I saw Top Secret! so I clicked. It's my all-time favorite comedy film EVAR! The guy who plays Déja-Vu went on to play Mr. Carson on Downton Abbey. "Klaus is a moron who knows only what he reads in the New York Post."
Watched it at the age of 12 back in a theatre near me and a couple hundred times so far. Gave me multiple PTSDs, can take seriously any movie after, can't stop laughing with a ballet, can't take seriously a choreography or listening nearby tourists speaking german since then! French partizans in East Germany? Seriously?😂
14:42 Whoa, whoa, whoa - what? That was really Val Kilmer singing? No way. I was already impressed enough by the dancing; it's hard to believe. -Has he sang in any other production?- Never mind, what am I thinking? He was Jim Morrison in the Doors movie. I couldn't believe that one either. I thought he was lip-syncing.
It isn't just gags. It also showcases Val Kilmer's outstanding talent. He makes pop singing look like just one facet of an actor's range. I'd like to see him get an Oscar retrospectively for this. It wasn't just writing and production. The reason comedies aren't made much anymore is that the risk of offending some loud-mouthed group is so great that producers must hire special people who are easily offended to screen out the naughty bits.
whats up guys. top secret is one of my favorite movies. the scene were they walk backward is a classic. viva inghilterra e africa!! p.s. guys what the hell you were thinking about that pinto gag? i saw this movie as a kid in italy and there was no doubt in my mind that the ford pinto had to be a shitty car design. coincidentaly this didn't impact my opinion on my, later in life, ford fiesta..... that car was solid as a rock!
My fav gag from this movie is defo the one where there are people descending on a big statue of pigeon and pissing on it. It's so stupid, surreral and incredibly funny at the same time.
At that time, we were a bunch of students watching this movie in an overcrowded dormitory room, like 22 people in a room. We watched the movie for 3 hours and some, because we stopped it from 5 to 5 minutes to finish laughing, then rewind it back to get all the gags. Then we watched it second time and laughed again. Jeez, the most memorable movie watch ever 😂😂😂 Oh, I so much want to see a good sequel!
good to see colin had time off from working at black mesa to visit the gang
how deep does the rlm lore go?
@@Davethebeaver2can guarantee Colin was behind the resonance cascade
Look at a picture of Dr. Kleiner and look at Colin, he stole that sweater from his dad 100%
Time, dr Colin Freeman?
feels good to get out of those ridiculous ties
Love this flick. Some of the best lines of ALL TIME.
"Let me know if his condition changes."
Hangs up phone.
"He's dead."
😆
Never seen the movie but I'm giggling
It’s brilliant
My favourite as well
Poor Colonel Krueger
At 16:24, note how Val Kilmer lurches as the "train" moves in order to make it more believable.
So much attention to detail to sell the dumbest jokes. This movie is genius.
Plus the breeze in his hair. Solid gold genius.
I wanna say its just building gags out of real setups and conventions like its some easy thing, but that was as much a craft as actually doing the real deal.
Then why is it a dumb joke? It's a brilliant joke, no one ever expected the station to move. To think of that as a writer is smart.
Good eye, Boonehams. Never consciously noticed his "lurch" before.
Everything in it is awesome
The underwater fight scene is a good example of why ZAZ movies were amazing. After deciding what the gag was going to be, they implement it 100% seriously with proper filmmaking effort. That underwear fight used excellent practical effects. They had weighted shoes and really were in a tank underwater, holding their breath during the takes.
6:34 In a movie with a plot, the fate of the resistance-leader would have been more clear. Do the cowboys put him in jail? What for, brawling? Do they summon witnesses to his greater crimes? Does he drown? You'ld think so but Hillary already thought he'd drowned when he never came back to the island. He has a history of getting rescued by political factions.
Yeah it’s a ridiculous fight scene, but the way he just easily drowns Nigel, is intentionally anticlimactic like it’s not meant to be a big fight it’s just two guys fighting, but the ending of it is bizarre the strange goodbye line even though she could have probably said it normally since she’s a mermaid.
Underwear fight?
The Montgomery Ward Mailing List was: If you were on it, you would get this huge cumbersome catalog more frequently than you would like. It was like a phone book. You had to carry it from the mailbox and then you had to get rid of it somehow because another one was on the way.
Seeing Colin and Jay not understand that joke made me feel so old...
And in later years you always wished it was a victorious secret catalog.
I didn't get it specifically because i'm not American. But I recall immediately imagining it as any number of mailing lists where one keeps getting essentially harrased by excessive mailer after mailer.
@@conorpm9009 Yeah, agreed; it's funny even without knowing the specific reference. That crap will always be around.
That sounds like using someone's email address to sign them up to a bunch of shitty newsletters that will clog up their inbox.
Top Secret is an absolute masterpiece. Everyone when I was a kid here in Argentina LOVED this film. They still play it sometimes. It's simply a gem.
Siiiii.... por TE-LE-FE!!!!
hace como una semana la pasaron por fxm y la vi por primera vez :D
@@bilbobolsonaro1316 en castellano??
Ja ja ja Soy de Argentina, de chica lo ví y no entendía lo que era una parodia y los chiste. Ahora de grande la volví a ver y morí de risa desde el comienzo. Es una lástima que al buscarlo en las diferentes plataformas de peliculas en castellano y/o español latino, algunos de los chistes se deformen un poco pero la magia y la diversión están ahí. Me encanta Val kilmer. Lo redescubrí este año gracias a Internet y pude ver la mayoría de sus trabajos. Me encanta .
Quality stuff. Jay and Young Eminem knocked it out of the park.
Apparently Colin was born the same year as Eminem.
Ben Buckley Productions oh yeah colin looks great for like 49
Slim Jesus
Feminem
Jay: So Marshall, what did you think of Top Secret?
Eminem: You know a lotta people think you can't rhyme nothing with orange. It's real easy though you just gotta think outside the box.
Jay: *stares off in distance*
I think you guys get exactly why I love the underwater fight scene. It's just so ridiculous, it's so dumb, it keeps building on with extra features like the bartender and the card-players, and it clearly took _way too much talent and effort_ to film, that it pretty much automatically becomes funny.
It was the very definition of "crazy awesome".
Near the there's a marquee advertising a Nick Rivers concert for a few seconds. At the bottom of the sign it says "And time permitting, Frank Sinatra."
near the what
The Sheriff is near the Marquee. ("Before and After". Wheel Of Fortune.) Wrong Movie. I do not care. Head me off, at the Pass, if you desire.
@@AleK0451 Try using a Magnifying Glass, for fun. "Eye" dare you.
I always referred to these sort of films as _"laugh-a-minute"_ comedies. And while Abrahams and the Zuckers are largely responsible for the golden age of this style of comedy, please don't forget their collaborator and writing genius, Pat Proft. He's largely uncredited in these films. His film "Real Genius" is a great example of his writing talent.
I'll also throw in both Hot Shots films and the Naked Gun trilogy
Now more than ever, the world needs Skeet Surfing.
Great gag
@@Dashoost Recently downloaded a vinyl rip of that, as well as How Silly Can You Get and Spend This Night With Me.
Mike is still melting his toys
He is making a Borg cube with them like that one episode of Star Trek The Next Generation where...
He died from the toxic fumes.
..and inhaling the fumes. Which means he gears up.
I think ultimately he plans to embed himself in a big block of melted movie merch tat,
like what happened to that guy Harrison Silo in that 70s sci-fi movie
This film was way more dignifying for Peter Cushing than Rogue One was.
Haha, that's deffo true.
In my opinion, Nigel’s punches in the underwater fight scene are the best looking punches in movie history
Holy shit, I didn't know Colin worked in anomalous materials.
That was my thought when I saw him with that sweater on. :D
Canadian Resonance Cascade.
Jay: Hey Colin, what's been happening up in Canada?
Colin: Uh, Borealis?
I’d never noticed Jim repping the Black Mesa hoodie. My favourite game and favourite film together in one video.
Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker are the masters of the spoof-comedy genre,along with Mel Brooks.Abrahams also directed the 2 excellent '' Hot Shot'' movies on his own.
There's no comparison between these guys and the creators of the ''Date/Desaster-whatever Movies''.
Masters? So scary movie 3 Is
a masterpiece?
@@mikeyreu5285 It's still the best of the bunch.
The only comedy that is on that level and isn't from ZAZ or Mel Brooks is Weird Al's UHF and maybe the Austin Powers movies.
@@ThreadBomb Which ZAZ movie would you prefer to Blazing Saddles?
"Skeet Shootin'" is not only a parody of "Surfin' USA", it's close enough that Brian Wilson is credited as a writer.
These are the kind of comedies that I call "dad movies." Just hilarious, constant, absurd, slap-stick jokes
Man I watched Top Secret for the first time today and I say that it has to be one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen! I haven’t laughed throughout a movie in the longest time! Highly underrated movie.
Loaded Weapon 1 was fantastic as far as I'm concerned, and deserves another fair shake in our time.
still waiting patiently for loaded weapon 2!
Agreed
The serious orchestral music in these films for me is a huge part of why I laugh. Every now and then I watch the dog biscuit joke and I laugh out loud every single time. My fave gag ever I think.
A true classic, never knew it was Val Kilmer's first film.
This movie was forbidden fruit to me for over twenty years. It came out when I was 11, and I sooo wanted to see it after watching the previews, but my mom refused to take me to it: it was too silly, not highbrow enough, and I think the scene of the girl with her boobs in the sand deeply offended mom's feminist sensibilities. I finally got to see it at age 32 when I met a friend who had the DVD. I was so excited when he suggested watching it, and it was worth the wait!
At 11, you might've been prohibited from entering. The film had a '15' certificate, if I remember correctly ;)
@@el-bov8034 Not with an adult.
no joke, the underwater fight scene is a stunning achievement in moviemaking, and the best thing about it that it's simply done for a bunch of silly gags. fantastic. love the whole movie.
@14:00 That was actually one of the things that I LOVED about Weird Al's UHF movie. I felt like it was a fantastic combination of the Nielsen dead-pan approach to comedy with the inherent absurdism that is Weird Al. The turtle scene, for example, will always make me laugh; "their nature's suction cup ;)"
One of the greatest gags of all time is "Supplies!!"
Top Secret is Weird Al's favorite movie, incidentally.
Getting put on the Montgomery Ward mailing list would get your mailbox stuffed with giant catalogs every single week. It was a nightmare. You couldn't fit anymore mail in the box.
Man don’t sleep on these Re:Views. This is the third movie these guys have helped me realize exists that I keep adding to my list! First a David Byrne movie and now a Zucker movie I didn’t know about!?
Jay, no one saw it because it's literally Top Secret. Stop talking about it. Shhhh!
Fuck, its too late. Mission Failed.
We’ll get ‘em next time.
THERE ISN'T GOING TO BE A NEXT TIME! This was more hidden than Area 51. FUCK!
This movie was leaked by Reagan admin all over the world , did see this movie on silver screen .
Sorry bud, I was there in 1984 and it was a popular film.
Masterpiece. I watch it regularly. So bloody clever. Airplane 2 is also underrated. William Shatner steals that movie.
His intro is an absolute classic 😂
They're beeping, and blinking, and flashing!
"How do we know you're not... Mel Torme?"
This is NOT Mel Torme.
Perfect example of a gag where you don't have to know what they're referencing for it to be funny.
Decided to watch this with my girlfriend on Valentine's Day and I'm so glad we did, this is legitimately one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
I love Top Secret. Every bit as good as airplane or naked gun. Underrated classic.
I thought that the cow scene was one of the funniest in the movie. You had two resistance fighters in an obvious cow suit walking around in boots. Then in the next shot you saw a real cow in the same boots. A calf sees them and there's gag, later a bull notices them and the Jaws theme starts to play. It was great.
The perfect thing for a lonely man on Valentine's day.
You guys say theyre aren't any straight comedies any more, but they exist they just aren't funny and they all star Malissa Mccarthy. That said, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the Worlds End I think classify as spoof movies and they are great.
Hot Fuzz has elements of parody, but isn't a straight up comedy in the way Airplane or Top Secret are. Shaun of the Dead is a straight up zombie genre film sprinkled with humor. World's End is kinda a genre mashup of action, comedy, and sci-fi, so it's not very spoofy either. I struggle to think of any recent pure comedy spoof movies.
After the grossout comedies of the mid-late 90s, comedy took a dramatic turn in the early 2000s with Anchorman. Comedy has never left the Anchorman doldrums since. Every comedy now ever has to have the same improvised, ridiculous and irreverent dialogue that made Anchorman so popular. This annoying trend is the main reason Ghostbusters 2016 sucked ass...no script with constructed jokes, just improvisational and referential humor.
@@choronos Johnny English series maybe?
Oh, Tropic Thunder was pretty good, and it's sort of spoofy. Still not on the level of the Zuckers though, with the pure density of jokes.
Game Night and Blockers came out in 2018 and did well and people seemed to like them
@@athenajaxon2397 They're funny, but Angie Tribeca would be a better modern example of this absurdist style of humor.
TOP SECRET! I loved this movie as a kid, my dad and i watched the VHS all the time! Wow what memories ☺️
Im really glad you guys did an episode on it. It means more people may hunt it down.
So many people who worked on Airplane! worked on Top Secret, but it has nowhere near its predecessors fame.
Thanks RLM for making this episode! Its always great to hear from you fucking clowns 🤗
Love when they are introducing the french resistance members and they all have names based on French words "Latrine!" and the black guys name is "Chocolate mousse"
"This is not Mel Torme..!"
Holy moly
I own this film
I saw it at the theatre in the 80s
I thought I was 1 of 5 people who actually remembered it
It still makes me laugh
Always loved this. Criminally underrated. Was actually the first DVD I ever bought.
Mary Freeman +1 here. Didn’t see it in the theatre but watched many maaany times on VHS.
She is not Mel Torme
Souvenirs. Novelties. Party tricks.
I have it on DVD as well and treasure it among the top comedies every made, along with those by Mel Brooks in his early days - The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1 and Spaceballs.
Both Abrahams and Zucker wrote and directed Scary Movie movies.
'Kentucky Fried Movie' is so tragically underrated. So many great, quotable scenes.
Top Secret! Is easily the best Zucker brothers movie. It completely bombed at the box office, but it is a masterclass in the art of film comedy. Way better than Airplane or the Naked Gun trilogy, and those are great, too! Criminally underrated classic.
Awesome. Growing up I always enjoyed this more than airplane.
Make more Re:View, it's my favorite thing you guys do. Keep em coming!
Sadly, we will probably never see this brand of comedy anymore. All the inventive staging, clever set ups and visual humor will cost too much effort and money for Hollywood nowadays.
Check out Tag and Game Night. Game night especially had some very nice visuals and cinematography. I wouldn't say that they're necessarily on this level but as far as a straight, he goes there both standouts in recent memory and pretty clever.
“Angie Tribeca” and “A Touch Of Cloth” are pretty decent spoof shows on the cop procedurals in this same vein.
Genuinely loved the first season of Angie Tribeca.
"On my table, cloth"
@@Eamonshort1 very touching, cloth
the underwater bar fight in top secret is val kilmer's hyperbolic time chamber training as an actor before appearing in tombstone
Maybe I'm posting too early, but weren't Mel Brooks and Monty Python making spoof movies before the Zuckers?
Youre actually right
TheOwneroftheIC I love Men In Tights making fun of Prince of Thieves. I quote that movie a lot.
No Monty Python's humor is much more surrealist satire and philosophy. Mel Brooks definitely made spoofs but they were more screwball style. What Colin and Jay were saying in this review is that the spoof films in the 90s specifically tried to capitalize on the popularity of ZAZ films which had a as-many-gags-as-possible style.
Val Kilmer has never been so Val Kilmer
"Montgomery Ward mailing list" is the 70s/80s version of Kramer and Potterybarn catalogues on Seinfield.
8:25 Same reason I loved the original MST3K. Though they were reference jokes, but very esoteric, regional based reference jokes.
Hey is that a Black Mesa emblem?
yes, colin works there, and he has to wear those ridiculous ties!
Oh man, "Top Secret" was and still is one of my favorite spoof films. Had a great story, hilarious dialog and scenes and the soundtrack was great with Val's various Elvis-like tunes. He's an excellent singer. Love all of the Zucker Bros. movies. They were properly done spoof comedies compared to the random garbage of later imitators like those mentioned. Ughhh, terrible films. OMG, I didn't even think about Michael Gough being in the film with Val, both before their Batman stints together. Totally agree that the Zucker comedies are works of art. Loved that little Monty Python reference with the "Naked Gun" scene where the waiter is missing the backside of his pants. That's literally taken directly from "MP at the Hollywood Bowl" live show where they group sing "Sit On My Face" in waiter outfits and walk off the stage with their bare butts showing. "Top Secret!" was the fourth to last film Peter Cushing did before his death. His last was and still is one of my favorite adventure comedies, Biggles: Adventures in Time, from 1986.
Loaded Weapon is amazing
Yep, Thumbs Up for loaded Weapon!
Police squad was under rated.
Me and my Dad nearly got thrown out of the cinema watching this. Can't remember the last time I watched a comedy and was crying with laughter so hard that I miss the next gag. A typical scene when we watched any of them. What happened to their popularity, IMO, was that the style became predictable to an extent. The unexpectedness of the comedy became ...well...expected. That said, if you stay away from the ZAZ classics long enough, you can come back to them again and again, and relive the pure pleasure of laughing out loud at silly shit..
It's really one of those comedies where a small joke hits you and you laugh but as you're laughing you catch the bigger joke and then you're not able to breathe from laughing so hard.
It's the timing of everything.
Not Another Teen Movie is by far the best spoof movie made in the past 20 years. It's much more in line with Airplanes joke-a-minute, setups and payoffs then it is with Date Movie, Superhero Movie, or any other spoof movie "Movie"
Weird Al also did style parodies for Oingo Boingo "You Make Me" and Talking Heads "Dog Eat Dog"
This is a masterpiece. A bukkake of gags.
Well, it is Val-entines day
Woah. Good one
the ford pinto gag works even without knowing the history of the car. And it works because of Hollywood's love for explosions
Top Secret is actually a sequel to The Doors.
Reverse that.
the boots standing in a field, and the station taking off joke never get old :D neither does the east german womans olympic team :D
Top secret is one of the best spoof comedies ever made. The intro is the best intro in any movie
The "Montgommery Ward Catalogue" joke is that once you were on their mailing list you would NEVER ESCAPE receiving mail from them AGAIN. I feel that "mailing list" was the "telemarketer" of the late 70s and early 80s.
The film "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" fits into this genre, too, I would say. I would love to see a re:View on that film as well...
On your commenting why this movie is not as well remembered as the other ZAZ productions...One of my theories about the cold-ish initial reception of "Top Secret" was that both "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" were skewering overused movie and TV tropes that were, at the time, ripe for parody. "Airplane!" came at the end of the the disaster movie glut of the seventies, and "Police bɒυpƧ" and with it "The Naked Gun" came during the glut of serious, straight-forward TV cop shows. You could have watched one of the "Airport" disaster movies and then went immediately to see "Airplane!" I'd guess that Top Secret would have been more warmly received if Elvis and war movies had been more recent in the public's minds. This is not a knock on the movie itself; I just often wondered myself why no one seemed to remember this awesome comedy.
Why did you put "Squad" backwards? Totally agree with what you said.
@@Phaota If you have a copy of "Police Squad", watch it again. Keep an eye on the main door to the bullpen.
@@donhermanson2608 Oh, it was a reference. I see. I'll check out when I watch it again.
To the surrealism point this is genuinely the first movie I've seen that actually feels like a cartoon, some movies feel cartoony but I haven't seen any go for direct cartoon gags. Just in this video the man shattering into pieces and the bikes being horses would be straight out of any basic cartoon.
Michael Gough - Goff, not Go, my dear speech-afflicted chaps. But apart from that, absolutely spot on. When I first saw Top Secret (I was 12 in 1984) I was asked to leave the cinema for "laughing too much" - I had a fierce chat with the manager about the unfairness of that, and he gave me free tickets to see it again. Just showed it to my similarly aged son and he needed me to pause it regularly so his laughs didn't interrupt the next jokes.
Man why does colin love flood pants so much and why is Jay wearing shorts in winter?
I remember watching police squad on comedy central back in the day. Didn't know it was only six episodes! I also liked 'Mafia'.
Get Smart and Johnny English are the most recent films in a similar vein I remember, and I enjoyed them.
One of my all-time favorite movies. This and UHF made for a great childhood. And Freaked.
Any time I'm out at a store, restaurant ..or whatever & see a janitor closet I picture some guy with a mop just standing inside. 😄😄
Remember "Silence of the Hams"? Me neither
Hey, that movie has it's moments. Haha.
Terrible spoof.
What about Fatal Instinct?
I think Scott Pilgrim might be the closest modern equivalent - yes, its on the other side of the line between spoof movies and movies which primarily tell a story but still, Scott Pilgrim just having left (out of the window) is somewhat similar humor.
Watch High Anxiety if you haven't already. Doesn't get enough love.
Yes! It's Mel Brooks' own fault though. He has so many great comedies that High Anxiety is a gem lost in a pile of jewelry.
I tried to get into it but after 15 minutes I hadn't laughed once so I gave up
@@oo1721 High Anxiety is alot like the movie movies where the film is more focused in referencing the source material (Hitchcock shots instead of dumb pop culture) rather than making jokes.
This is one of my all time favorite movies, I've watched it countless times and the jokes still make me laugh
one of my favorit movies ever. I have seen it many times. I hardly go a day without quoting it.
26:10 That is a BRUTAL stunt! No way to really control it. They are just being flung through the air like it's a cartoon. A+ for balls.
Hi there! I don't watch your videos normally, but I saw Top Secret! so I clicked.
It's my all-time favorite comedy film EVAR!
The guy who plays Déja-Vu went on to play Mr. Carson on Downton Abbey.
"Klaus is a moron who knows only what he reads in the New York Post."
A few years ago I had a deja vu with "Deja Vu", who played the butler Carson in Downton Abbey. What a fine actor.
"Don't treat it like a comedy" < this is why something like the pizza throw scene in Breaking Bad works so well.
Holy shit this was my favourite movie as a kid
Watched it at the age of 12 back in a theatre near me and a couple hundred times so far. Gave me multiple PTSDs, can take seriously any movie after, can't stop laughing with a ballet, can't take seriously a choreography or listening nearby tourists speaking german since then! French partizans in East Germany? Seriously?😂
"Souvenirs, novelties, party tricks."
skinnier Ian McNeice
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Whoa, whoa, whoa - what? That was really Val Kilmer singing? No way. I was already impressed enough by the dancing; it's hard to believe.
-Has he sang in any other production?- Never mind, what am I thinking? He was Jim Morrison in the Doors movie. I couldn't believe that one either. I thought he was lip-syncing.
Because its...Totally bitchin', ridin' waves and blastin' pigeons...
My favorite part of the cow gag is Nigel's "what's the hurry?" line.
It isn't just gags. It also showcases Val Kilmer's outstanding talent. He makes pop singing look like just one facet of an actor's range. I'd like to see him get an Oscar retrospectively for this. It wasn't just writing and production.
The reason comedies aren't made much anymore is that the risk of offending some loud-mouthed group is so great that producers must hire special people who are easily offended to screen out the naughty bits.
@12:53 The guy in the window is Jim Carter, the butler from Downton Abby.
Holy shit it's a lesser known movie on re:View that I've actually seen. I guess this is what is what it feels like to be a film buff.
whats up guys. top secret is one of my favorite movies. the scene were they walk backward is a classic. viva inghilterra e africa!!
p.s. guys what the hell you were thinking about that pinto gag? i saw this movie as a kid in italy and there was no doubt in my mind that the ford pinto had to be a shitty car design. coincidentaly this didn't impact my opinion on my, later in life, ford fiesta..... that car was solid as a rock!
The Naked Gun IS Police Squad. It even says right under the title for The Naked Gun, "From the files of Police Squad."
My fav gag from this movie is defo the one where there are people descending on a big statue of pigeon and pissing on it. It's so stupid, surreral and incredibly funny at the same time.
Spaceballs is the best spoof movie. John Candy, and Rick Moranis are legends.
The Zuckers' actually created movies, jammed full of satire. Thats why they were good. And still work
At that time, we were a bunch of students watching this movie in an overcrowded dormitory room, like 22 people in a room. We watched the movie for 3 hours and some, because we stopped it from 5 to 5 minutes to finish laughing, then rewind it back to get all the gags. Then we watched it second time and laughed again. Jeez, the most memorable movie watch ever 😂😂😂
Oh, I so much want to see a good sequel!
Christ when that fucking soldier shattered i lost my shit so hard. That is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Fucking genius.
I mean I got a youtube notification announcing its presence pushed directly to me two countries away so how Top Secret can it really be