Skeet shooting

Rating: 4/10 (3 September 2018)

I wonder if Val Kilmer looks at this film and wonders 'Did I really have hips like that?'
The Zucker Abrahams Zucker team spoof the spy film genre but the results are too hit and miss because of the scatter-gun approach by the writers.
Set in East Germany which also seems to double for Nazi Germany. Kilmer plays Nick Rivers an Elvis like rock star on a goodwill visit to Eastern Europe taking the place of Leonard Bernstein.
Rivers gets caught up in a spy caper to rescue an imprisoned scientist when he meets beautiful Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) a member of the resistance and the daughter of the scientist.
The ZAZ team parody films such as The Blue Lagoon and The Man Who Knew Too Much. They also parody the songs of The Beach Boys with an added pro gun motif.
The film is sporadically amusing, some nice cameos from Omar Sharif who gets crushed inside a car and Peter Cushing a Swedish book shop owner with a wonky eye.
However it is not up to the trio's high standards set in the Airplane films and later in The Naked Gun series.