Val Kilmer in TOP SECRET! (1984) was CHARMING! - Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Reaction
30:14 - Review
Starring:
Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Christopher Villiers, and Warren Clarke
Written by:
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Martyn Burke
Directed by:
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams - Фільми й анімація
This wasn't just Val Kilmer's first starring role; this was his *first* movie, ever!
And that is indeed him singing!
Indeed. His next movie was Real Genius- which is also something of a forgotten gem. It's literally a smart comedy.
@@MrTBoneSF "A bit of advice. Always...no...never forget to check your references." 🤗
Love Real Genius!
"I was hot and hungry!"
@@gggooding "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said 'I drank what?'"
Val Kilmer and Michael Gough, of course, reunited again in Batman Forever. A lot of spoof movies rely on recent pop culture knowledge for the jokes. Top Secret! is timeless. Even if you did not get the Blue Lagoon movie reference (two teens stuck on an island), it did not matter.
The songs that Val Kilmer sings in the film are actually performed by Val Kilmer himself and were featured on the film's soundtrack released in 1984 under Kilmer's character's name Nick Rivers.
Just ordered the 2 CD limited re-release from Amazon that includes the Val Kilmer singing tracks.
If you can watch Val Kilmer sing and dance all movie long, you ought to react to him as Jim Morrison in the movie, "The Doors".
Interesting trivia: Peter Cushing was who played the librarian with the huge eye. He also played Grand Moff Tarkin in "Star Wars". To make the eye prosthetic, they had to cast his whole head in plaster. When they made the movie "Rogue One" years after Cushing's death, they wanted to digitally recreate Grand Moff Tarkin. Someone found the cast of Peter Cushing's head made for "Top Secret!", and they scanned that as a reference in recreating him for "Rogue One".
cool trivia!
Top Secret! is a forgotten gem, or dare I say, masterpiece. So many zany set-pieces and quotable lines. I've seen it many, many times and always enjoy a fresh watch. Like Airplane! there is always stuff to see as every frame is jam packed with gags. It's great to see someone your age giving this classic some well deserved appreciation. Keep up the good work dude!!
There was some issues with the first year Pintos one was that the gas tank was too close to the back of the car. This lead to several car fires when they were hit from behind. After the first year though this was fixed,but not before it was a joke. This was a common joke for many years. Since the cars aren’t around anymore it’s not as common, but those of us that are old enough we know. This one and another one I saw in another movie were still funny.
A couple people wee in fact killed by the Pinto. Ford denied there was an issue until an internal corporate memo expose 1st: that they knew there was an issue and 2nd: that they decided not to fix the issue because it was cheaper for Ford to pay out a few law suite settlements than fix the car.
Met Val Kilmer a few years back during a convention. I was wearing a Top Gun T-Shirt with the picture spelling out "Duck Duck Goose", with the goose replaced with Anthony Edward's
"Goose"! He smiled and reached out for a hug. I treasure that moment, the pic and the autographed copy of "Top Secret!" that I have in a frame. I love all of his stuff (Tombstone! YES!), but Top Secret! will always be my #1.
The little horse (hoarse) joke kills me every time. It's so stupid but so funny!
"High Anxiety" is a must watch, spoof of the Alfred Hitchcock movies. Mel Brooks asked for Hitchcock's approval before making the film. It is a much different spoof as it is not played for laughs, which is what made it such a good film, one of Brooks' better efforts.
High Anxiety and To Be Or Not To Be are my fave Mel Brooks movies!
Yeah, nobody ever reacts to High Anxiety, but it's great!
@@itzakpoelzig330”The Twelve Chairs” is an under appreciated Mel Brooks comedy. His first film, it stars Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Don Deluise searching for jewels hidden in the seat of a dining room chair after the Russian Revolution.
I, too, absolutely love this movie. The weird thing is that it didn't do well at the box office, so the creators spent most of their careers thinking it was a failure. I had a chance to see it with them at the Castro Theater in SF many years later and one of the things they mentioned was how gratifying it was to see it with an appreciative audience of true fans. The directors hadn't ever had that experience since releasing it and were taken aback. I'm so glad you enjoyed it since many of us hold it dearly in our hearts :)
I appreciate your commitment to the pronunciation of the title. It's nice to see the younger generations holding firm on what they believe in.😂
Like the creators of "TOP SECRET!" he knows that the secret to good comedy is committing to the bit.
An entire movie with Val Kilmer singing and dancing? Maybe The Doors where he plays rock legend Jim Morrison?
This movie was mainly parodising the old Elvis Presley movies plus war movies (including The Great Escape). The flashback scene on the island was a reference to The Blue Lagoon. The flashing boobs at the end was a reference to E.T. Cedric was played by movie legend Omar Sharif (continuing the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker tradition to cast serious drama actors in comedies)
And Cedric being crushed into the car was a reference to Mr. Solo in Goldfinger.
Eddie Tagoe is probably best known from *Raiders of the Lost Ark* as the sailor who spots Indy on the U-Boat:
"I found him, Sir!"
"Where?"
"There!" (Points)
(Sailors cheer)
And he would be very well recognized for just that one scene by any movie buff.
But I don't think he cares to impress movie buffs.
His personal IMDb image is as Chocolate Mousse.
That means that he is more personally proud of this performance--probably prefers meeting fans of this movie, too--than of his most recognizable, beloved, and revered performance.
That guy definitely had fun and made some fond memories making this movie.
Pronounced, of course, as "Shockolate Mousse"
top secret is my favorite parody, even more than airplane. this is val kilmers first movie, the directors discovered him in a small theatre production. kilmer sang most of his own stuff in this, hes a good singer, he sings a lot of his own stuff in the doors movie. this was also batman and alfreds first movie together.
I HIGHLY recommend another really fun Val Kilmer comedy from the 80's : Real Genius.
I remember the first time I saw the singing horse. I could not stop laughing for hours. One of my all time favourite gags in a movie ever!
The story of the woman and loincloth dude being stuck on an island was a parody of Blue Lagoon ( Brooke Shields movie ).
Yay! Best acclaimed soft-porn movie!
It's not a parody move per se, but Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker directed RUTHLESS PEOPLE which is quite hilarious.
It's rumored that Val Kilmer didn't know this was a comedy while filming, he just thought it was a weirdly directed action movie. It makes his goofy faces in this movie even funnier, plus his adorable haircuts.
Top Secret! is one of my favourite movies of all time. I think it has some of the best background visual jokes ever.
Interesting side note: they had to create a plaster cast for Peter Cushing's face with the big eye for this film. That same cast was later used to create the CGI Grand Moff Tarkin for the film Rogue One. I'm shocked to this day that this film isn't more popular. I think it's a comedy classic!
I'm very happy to know; I'm not the only person who knows this story. Seems like a few comments talk about it; which is great.
27:55 From Tortmuseum:
"The Pinto, a subcompact car made by Ford Motor Company, became infamous in the 1970s for *bursting into flames if its gas tank was ruptured in a collision.* The lawsuits brought by injured people and their survivors uncovered how the company rushed the Pinto through production and onto the market."
*After* the Pinto, movies started presenting gas tank leaks in crashes to explain why cars caught fire and even exploded, thanks to the information about the reality that the Pinto lawsuits uncovered.
Movie makers, apparently, did not know gasoline was flammable or explosive or used in cars till then.
They did know, however, that driving off a cliff would cause an explosion every time!
As a teen I was all Hot Shots Part Deux and Robin Hood Men in Tights but as a 40 year old, its Top Secret and Young Frankenstein.
I think Young Frankenstein is the funniest movie ever made.
Val Kilmer also did some singing in Prince of Egypt.
"Nick. My dad thought up my name one day when he was shaving."
17:22 catching the books while making it look like he is tossing them up is a feat.
If you were on the Montgomery Wards mailing list, you were now on EVERYONES mailing list. Get ready for a ton of junk mail!
I am so happy to see other people discovering this movie! It was my childhood favourite and I still enjoy it now. An actual underrated gem.
Also: Those background singers at around 16:00 are Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker!
“Straighten a Rug” is a play on Cut A Rug.
Yea, the Ford Pinto had a gas tank in the back and there were enough incidences of it exploding that it had to be recalled and redesigned.
This is a parody of Spy, WWII and Elvis movies...and it's magnificent!
27:38 Pretty much every time you see a giant phone in the foreground with actors in the background, it is actually a giant phone. Because a real phone is too small so it distorts and diminishes.
See: Hitchcock's *Strangers on a Train* for a good example.
This time, they show it really is just a giant prop phone, and it is beautiful.
How silly can you get? Well, now you know. It will probably come as no surprise that Weird Al loves this movie. So he was very happy to appear in _The Naked Gun_ movies.
The exploding Pinto was a joke because the Pinto put their engine in the rear of the vehicle. I don’t know if many actually exploded, but it was a common thought at the time.
Great reaction! This and Airplane are the best ZAZ. The short tv show Police Squad is amazing as well.
The Pinto was not a rear engine car! Also, a few did catch fire in rear end collisions because Ford put the gas tank to close to the rear bumper, which when hit in an accident, would puncture the gas tank. Ford did correct this in later model years by moving the tank forward a few inches.
No sir, the Pinto's engine was in the front. Its problem was that its gas tank was located too close to the rear bumper "crumple zone" that it would blow up in minor accidents like the "Alien" movie's starship Nostromo.
Exceptionally funny and imaginative movie with some memorable gems of genius comedy
"My uncle was born in America."
"Oh, really?"
"But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency."
Fun Fact: Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker appear as the German soldiers who show up at the door of the prop room to arrest Nick (Val Kilmer).
Final Bow Fact: Peter Cushing, who began his screen career in the old Hollywood of the late 1930s, makes his final appearance in an American production. He made three more British films before passing in 1994.
Music Enthusiast Fact: The songs that Val Kilmer sings in the film are actually performed by Val Kilmer himself and were featured on the film's soundtrack released in 1984 under Kilmer's character's name Nick Rivers. When Nick Rivers is in jail, a head shot of Cher can be clearly seen on the wall of the cell several times. Val Kilmer was dating Cher at the time.
The Bookstore Scene Fact: The scene where Hillary (Lucy Gutteridge) and Nick (Val Kilmer) go into the Swedish bookstore was staged, shot, and then run backward for a "unique" sound. If you record the scene and play it backward, you will find all of the dialogue to be exactly what is shown in the subtitles except for the title of the book. "Europe On Five Quaaludes A Day" (which I can't confirm as real) is what Hillary asked for. A forward-playing version of the Swedish bookstore scene can be found on the DVD. The sight gag of Peter Cushing and the magnifying glass is a parody of a similar shot of Cushing from Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The prosthetic that Peter Cushing wore in the bookshop scene involved the making of a cast of his face to fit it to. This same cast was used 30 years later by ILM to build a CGI model of his face for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
Is there any man in Hollywood Cher HASN'T dated? What am I saying, of course not!😅😅😅
I've had a dream a few times where I have graduated high school but for some reason went back and it invalidated my graduation and I had to re-graduate. Lol
Chocolate Moose was in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The backwards book store owner was Grand Moff Tarkin in A New Hope.
Hillary's father was Alfred in the first 4 Batmans.
Deja Vu was Carson in Downton Abby.
Cedric was Ali in Lawrence of Arabia.
Anyone note other cameos?
Yeah, the spy who got crushed in a car was in "Lawrence of Arabia."
@@les4767 Omar Sharif, yes. He was also in Doctor Zhivago.
One of the German officers is played by 'Dim' in 'A Clockwork Orange'.
Pizza cafe patrons (including Mother Zucker) are in several ZAZ movies.
EDIT: and keeping with the french food names, it’s Chocolate Mousse.
@@tempsitch5632 Didnt know Mother Zucker was there! Airplane makeup and I must kill Papsmear!
You're very right, as you obviously know: "Mousse" got autocorrected. Jeez - I'm a chef for Christmas sake. 🤗
4:54 See: 1980 Russian Women Olympic Athletes. They were given lots of hormones but were told they were vitamins, most of them became barren, but all became very masculine.
Wow what a surprise didn't expect you to react to this great movie. This is from the same directors and Airplane and The Naked Gun Trilogy. Other great Val Kilmer movies are Wilow and The Saint.
Oh my gosh, I haven't thought of The Saint in forever. That was actually a really fun movie. I loved seeing Val in all those disguises and doing all the different accents! 😆
@@itzakpoelzig330 Both Wilow and The Saint are movie I really love
Several gags weren't in this version: the exploding apple, cedrick dropping head German into the same compactor that cedrick was dropped in.
Funnier that I anticipated. Seen this movie when it was new.
To understand this specific style of musical, see: *The Young Ones* (1961) starring Cliff Richards.
It's not a spy movie it's just the way the songs are presented and the way the movie progresses and his seeming Elvisishness but from a culture that is too strange to carry an Elvis.
Yes, Pintos were known for catching fire when rear-ended.
Yes the whole scene was filmed in reverse - there's youtube clips that reverse it - everything they're saying is what they're saying but it was filmed and then reversed - so they started the scene and the end.
Skeet Surfin' USA !!
The movie they're referring to is not Castaway, it is Blue Lagoon.
Val Kilmer dances like Elvis here, and played Elvis, in True Romance. But since you like him singing, and you liked Oliver Stone, check out The Doors. He plays Jim Morrison flawlessly. Probably his best role.
"Rugs" refers to "Carpet"... See: "merkin"
Then see: "Merkin Muffley" and LAUGH!!!
Val Kilmer did do another movie where he sings and dance. It’s called “The Doors”. It’s basically Nick Rivers on drugs and alcohol 😊😊
The joke was that supposedly if you play English backwards it sounds like Swedish.
It is very interesting to see your full detailed reaction to the trilogy of Star Wars. This is a cool immortal classic 👍🔥
Enjoyed watching this with you
Shh! It's *TOP SECRET!*
"Pre-teen Maternity" 😲😄
The bulge-ballet scene is hilarious!!
17:40 _The Blue Lagoon_
I love this film the original spoof! Btw cool T-shirt. Bowie all the way
Love Top Secret!!!
The exclamation point was kind of a thing with "ZAZ" movies.
You kept calling it *Top Secret!* because of the exclamation mark but *Hot Shots!* had one too, as well as the sequel. *Airplane!"* also has the exclamation mark. The Naked Gun movies didnt have the exclamation mark but they were "from the files of *Police Squad!"* so they kind of did...
I really love the movie *Mafia!* but it got terrible reviews. It lost the Zuckers involvement and only has Jim Abrahms from the "ZAZ" team involved in making it. I still think it's a lot of fun though.
You've seen The Godfather movies which is great because you really need to have seen them for this movie, but also Goodfellas and Casino are important too.
"Hot Shots" isn't on the same level as "Top Secret" & "The Naked Gun" series. The true successors are the "Scary Movie" parodies.
Yep, Omar was a good sport.
3:11 the older women is mother Zucker or Abrams.
Yeah, why in the world did Nigel walk that way? 😇
I thought that was hilarious! ZAZ knew how to play out a joke. That was clever.
8:41 its german but ähm we call it Kauderwelsch it means he,said words witouht sinn
It's not as laugh-out-loud crazy funny as Airplane or The Naked Gun, but it is very likeable, as are many of the characters. It feels like it has more spirit than those other two, even though the other 2 are masterpieces of the spoof genre. And the jokes feel more good-natured. They come out more out of the situations rather than being on the characters themselves all the time. Meaning, it is a little lighter on its characters. And any movie that lampoons the Nazis is good with me. I'd put it on par with Hot Shots, even though the humor can be more edgy with Hot Shots.
Okay, so we’re parachuting into a combat operation. From an airplane with a rental logo. Fourth or fifth guy jumps holding a “duty free” bag.
Once we’re on the ground (after smashing the cricket, lol), let’s model how we’re going to assault the enemy position. Now, in “Red Dawn” and other movies, we use sticks and rocks and such. These guys start drawing with a stick… then pull out a little toy cow. Followed by a scale model fence, castle and assorted outbuildings. Oh yeah, now let’s add an electric model train. Really? You’re jumping out of a plane carrying all that stuff to build a fancy model? It’s wonderfully ridiculous, and also reminds me of Back To The Future where Doc Brown apologizes about the models not being to scale.
8:37
Hi RolyPolyOllie...they speak Gernan but most of the time it doesn't make sense. 😅
What movie are we reacting to...
I can't tell you.
Whatchu mean you can't tell me?
I can't tell you.
WHY‽
because it's *Top Secret!*
(Que sad harmonica!)
The difference between Hot Shots, and this, is Hot Shots is based off a film. This is just do what's funny. Parodying a single film is super hard! I write Parody. It's a steep learning curve. There a reason Parody films Parody many films. The meat on the bone is very lean. You pretty much have to Parody many films at once. Just try it some time. It's rough. BUT, if you're just being funny like in Top Secret, an original premis, you now you have waaaay more freedom to just do what works.
Maybe checkout Joe's Apartment the1996 musical black comedy.
Let´s say mostly everybody who plays a german talks real german but everybody who doesn´t play a german talk something that doesn't make sense - the anthem is hard to understand from the singing but it sounds real german but with another text i think only the first sentance was similar to the subs -also the hog balls wasn´t real german ^^
And that German anthem is a Milwaukee high school fight song.
A movie about plotting Nazis in East Germany which is Communist being opposed by the French Resistance.
An absurdity that only the ZAZ Brothers can deliver.
1:24 - Good eye. These little details add more humor when you see them.
4:41 - Question not the absurdity. Accept it!
6:07 - This is SoP on borders of both East and West Germany. Remember the Soviet general in Octopussy? Anyone who crosses that border without authorization will be shot.
7:45 - I think this refer to a certain brand of wine that is poor quality.
10:41 - The gangster in Goldfinger wasn't this lucky...
12:11 - Can't blame him asking anyone for a problem that can affect his marriage.
12:32 - Saves effort finding a priest to say last rites to convict who is a priest. German efficiency.
12:44 - Well you never know... he might have a near death experience.
14:38 - You have to admit that the magnetic mine with nukes wouldn't be out of place in a James Bond movie.
17:34 - Awesome and funny in execution, aye?
22:39 - Homing bullets for the win!
25:02 - Bad idea killing the cricket. A wood with no ambient insect or animal sounds is a dead giveaway that something is there.
29:00 - I really what to see a "Behind the Scenes" on how they pulled off this entire fight scene. It is awesome in execution.
Those generic background singers just popping up whenever he needs them always killed me. And the joke credits!
Not just background singers -- they were the Jordanaires, _Elvis's_ background singers!
I didn’t get “he just a little horse” reference.
The “little horse” was a pony, thus literally a little horse. But he had a cold (hence the coughing) and was “a little hoarse”.
A lot of the "German" you hear in the film is actually Yiddish, mostly very silly or vulgar things the ZAZ boys heard growing up
just to let you know, they havent recommended any of your vids to me in my feed at all, i have you subd with bells on. just so you can know that youtube is being a butt for some odd raisin
Do you think that blonde villain is still walking tlike that??
that first guy speaking german on the train... you hear the voice and you expect a typical german blonde guy or something, but instead, they used the darkest actor they could find, to subvert expectations
The joke with the women olympic team is that they are all loaded with steroids.
Hi, there's real german and fake german in this movie
Very funny, but also a quarter of a century late. If you want to see parodies in the middle of the action for the Cold War, Billy Wilder is your guy. Not Gene Wilder... Billy Wilder.
Unfortunately, Val had a hard time having fun with the role.
I'm a big fan of your dog, but not as big as yours.
The German in this is mostly bs.
Yes, I believe the dialect is from the Kuhscheiße region.
It's not German, it's Yiddish 😅
@@Rokhl.K Everything? Are you sure?
@@HowIamDriving dunno about *everything* but quite a lot. at 3:25 in this video, for example, when the train porter opens the compartment door, he says the second half of a well known Yiddish curse [zolstu vaksn] vi a tsibele mitn kop in drerd (may you grow like an onion with your head in the ground)
@@Rokhl.K Ok, I'm convinced. Thanks for explaining.
it's not real german
You're too young to remember this Ollie, but in the '70s the Ford Pinto was notorious for having such a badly designed gas tank, those things used to explode like a pack of dynamite in minor fender-benders. That's why that vehicle barely touched the Pinto's bumper and it got annihilated in a ball of fire. Still, my favorite joke was "I'm going to miss you most of all, Scarecrow!"
A little bit too hard on the Pinto. It was more like the fuel pump kept pumping after an accident, making it likely for a fire to start when that unused gasoline got out and came into contact with hot parts of the motor. Not exactly dynamite or Hollywood style fireballs, but definitely the newspapers that created that story sold a little better that way.
@@CDP1861 The Pinto did get recalled for being too "explody."
@@nathanfitzgerald6651 Yes, it did and I would not like to be stuck in any car that catches fire. Things get very nasty inside once the fire reaches the tank. Catching fire was something that was relative likely to hsppen even at minor accidents. But it was nothing like exploding in a fireball as soon as you bumped into the car. There was gasoline in that tank, not nitroglycerine.
@@CDP1861 I know it was an '80s movie/TV cliche that anytime two cars had a crash, both cars would be vaporized in a giant firestorm wayyyy out of proportion to a car's gas tank, lolol. I also liked that old movie cliche that whenever a car falls off a cliff, it somehow explodes in mid-air before it impacts with anything! It's like the car is anticipating its own death!☺
"...whaaat...!?"
Yeah, that's basically this whole movie. :)
"...parody movies today are the most schlock movies available..."
It's... hard to say. This movie came out in 1984 and cost about 9 million to make, whereas Star Wars: Return of the Jedi cost about 33 million, or four times as much, and the most expensive movie of the year cost 58 million, or 6 times as much. There are comedies costing as much (after inflation) these days that are comedies. The problem is that they tend to lose money.
"...wait, his feet!..."
The sheer number of gags (visual and otherwise) in this means it's quite possible to miss them on seeing it just once. So you often have to Deja-View it again. ...
"...wait, is this whole scene filmed in reverse? There's no way! .. It is!..."
Imagine how hard that is to do! Then watch the end of the video for Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" followed by the _entirety_ of AcapellaScience's video 'Entropic Time'.
Weird Al: ua-cam.com/video/lOfZLb33uCg/v-deo.html
acapellascience: ua-cam.com/video/i6rVHr6OwjI/v-deo.html
"...what the heck..."
Not sure if you know the boobs reference being from E.T.
"...I don't know for sure if Val Kilmer sung during this movie..."
He did. As he _also_ did when he portrayed Jim Morrison in The Doors. He's a good singer, good dancer, good actor. ... There aren't many who can do all three with the levels of competence he shows.
"...this movie probably had a bigger budget..."
9 million. Which would be about 26 million today. "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" from 2022 had a budget of 30 million, so... kinda similar. On the other hand, Avengers: Endgame of 2019 cost 356 million. So... twelve times. Not sure what to say about all this.
Nice reaction! Fun to watch. :)
Nigel was walking like that because of his sexual congress with that bull. After what that bull did it's amazing he could even stand up.
They speak german i must now i am german