Tuesday, 29 April 2014

what's in a story anyway?

Top Secret! (1984)

Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker this film stars Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers and Omar Sharif. An American pop star travels to East Germany for a concert and gets caught up in a spy caper.

While this film may never hit the heights of Airplane! (1980) it is still chock full of jokes with small details in scenes being turned to comic effect. When it comes to the plot it is best not to worry about it too much as does not make a huge amount of sense but serves to keep the action moving. The film is well made and the backwards sequence in the Swedish book shop with Peter Cushing is a particular comic highlight.


4/5

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