Underrated Comedy Classic

Rating: 9/10 (27 July 2000)

Top Secret seems to have little place in the Zuckers/Abraham/Zuckers team's career. It does not seem to be as successful as other films of theirs. In fact, it seems wedged right in between the extremely well respected Airplane! and its sequel and the Naked Gun series. Everyone has seen all five of those films, but only those who have caught it on Comedy Central seem to have seen Top Secret. I don't know why it occupies such a low tier. I believe that it is at least as funny as the classics Airplane! and The Naked Gun, if not a bit above them. There is one hilarious sequence after another with a few misses, but what are you going to do? All of these types of films hit and miss with their jokes, and Top Secret hits with about 90% of its jokes. Who could forget the Skeet Surfing song at the beginning? Who could forget the bull sequence? Or how about the ballet sequence? The underwater cowboy fight sequence? Oh, and, probably its most well remembered sequence, the backwards-Swedish sequence, a marvel in film history. I give Top Secret a 9/10, the same that I gave both Airplane! and The Naked Gun.