Underrated doesn't even begin to spell it out!

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2002)

There are two movies that as a kid I watched endlessly (kid = 8-12 years old) but no one had ever heard of. One was UHF (A movie that I will grant all of the bad reviews on, it's far from perfect, but I love it, what can I say) and Top Secret! When I was about 15 or 16 I decided to have my friends watch them both thinking that I was going to love them and they'd hate them. Well they loved both, but over the years Top Secret! has grown to be one of the funniest, if not THE funniest spoof film ever made. Yes I love the Farrely brothers, and the Coehn Brothers, and even The Brothers Grimm, but the Zucker team outdid themselves on this film. There are so many jokes it's impossible to keep a straight face for more than about 5 seconds. Those who don't get it, I'm convinced are either so highly educated that they've forgotten what funny is, or are so uneducated they don't see the great pains it took these film makers to truly attack the cold war in no way any Bond film could ever do. The cast is superb and just too many lines or scenes but I'll give my top few as others have: The boots on the ground, CLASSIC; the man running to catch the tree, where has a gag like this EVER been done; The Little German, a GREAT one line gag; Playing the scene backwards to make the shopkeeper sound sweedish, I don't think epople understand why that's funny; and probably one of my favorite site gags EVER done in ANY film, the scene at the ballet with the ballerinas jumping on, well, if you've seen it you know what it is and it's unparalleled FUNNY!" Run don't walk to get this movie on DVD on July 16th, outtakes, deleted scenes, and commentary, truly deserved by this FANTASTIC film.