The last great movie of its kind

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2000)

"Top Secret!" was the last of the ZAZ/Mel Brooks "spoof" movies to really be worth much of anything, or more importantly, to be remotely funny. And it is truly funny, and earns a place not quite at but near the level of "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles" and "Airplane" (the undisputed classics of this odd mini-genre).
I get mild chuckles from the first "Naked Gun" movie. And "Spaceballs" has one classic line that makes me laugh every time I hear it - but that's the only time I laugh at the whole movie. "Hot Shots" does nothing for me. And Mel Brooks has just been churning out endless, boring dreck like "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" for many years - thank God he's apparently focused on getting "The Producers" going on Broadway so as to spare us any more awful films from a once-great writer/director.
So anyhow, "Top Secret!" sorta marks a dividing line - the last time one of these silly spoof movies was actually truly funny.