Painfully Funny!

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2005)

"Top Secret!" by the guys that brought us "Airplane," (And individually would surprise us with films like "Ghost" and "First Knight.")is a worth successor, almost surpassing "Airplane" as the funniest of the 2.
Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) is a very popular singer who is one of the headliners of a festival in East Germany, which uses the festival as a cover for world domination. When Rivers meets up with Hillary (Lucy Gutteridge), he is drawn into The Resistance, a group with colorful names (Chocolate Mousse, Deja Vu, Latrine). The leader of the group, Nigel (AKA The Torch), is a former love of Hillary's, which complicates things.
Never mind the formula plot, though.
The film is played STRICTLY for laughs, and the laughs hit you hard and fast. So much so that you can't recover from painful laugh attacks. It's hard to pinpoint which scenes are funnier, so I'm not going to try. Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing and Michael Gough actually have some pretty funny moments in the film.