My favorite bit in Top Secret is when they're planning their break in, and they start with sketching in dirt with a stick, then bring out one little prop cow, and by the end of it, have an entire, highly detailed mock up of the complex and the surrounding area, complete with running train.
Yeah i love how every joke subtly builds up. You're just watching them explain the plan. And before you know you're seeing a miniature castle with a gate. It's so great.
Jay: So Marshall, what did you think of Top Secret? Eminem: You know a lotta people think you can't rhyme nothing with orange. It's real easy though you just gotta think outside the box. Jay: *stares off in distance*
At 16:24, note how Val Kilmer lurches as the "train" moves in order to make it more believable. So much attention to detail to sell the dumbest jokes. This movie is genius.
I wanna say its just building gags out of real setups and conventions like its some easy thing, but that was as much a craft as actually doing the real deal.
I never see those sorts of name pun gags in comedies anymore, maybe it’s just a Zucker specific thing. “Surely you can’t be serious!” “I’m serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” It’s like the peak form of dad jokes
This film has some of my favourite lines of any film. A man on a phone says "I see. Let me know if there's any change in his condition." Hangs up the phone. "He's dead."
My favorite sight gag of all time; as they're escaping the ballet, they open a janitor's closet, and the janitor is just standing in there. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but it floors me every time.
And my favorite sight gag of all time is literally two seconds after that when they escape into the "Prop Room" and it's filled top to bottom with airplane propellers.
@@TonyBlue87 that's a joke that will escape anyone who is not a native english speaker. I never notice that one. Never knew the name was prop room and I would never make the connection to "propellers" (prop room meaning property, I guess?)
@@rogeriopenna9014 i don't know where the term originates, but props are just the objects in the movie. like lamps and tables or fake swords. but its a LITERAL prop room, as in propellers
@@TonyBlue87 and they brace the door with the huge propeller, hanging from a pair of chandelleirs on each side of the door. When the soldiers finally burst through, it's the propeller that broke in two. The chandelliers haven't moved a millimeter.
The underwater fight scene is a good example of why ZAZ movies were amazing. After deciding what the gag was going to be, they implement it 100% seriously with proper filmmaking effort. That underwear fight used excellent practical effects. They had weighted shoes and really were in a tank underwater, holding their breath during the takes.
6:34 In a movie with a plot, the fate of the resistance-leader would have been more clear. Do the cowboys put him in jail? What for, brawling? Do they summon witnesses to his greater crimes? Does he drown? You'ld think so but Hillary already thought he'd drowned when he never came back to the island. He has a history of getting rescued by political factions.
Yeah it’s a ridiculous fight scene, but the way he just easily drowns Nigel, is intentionally anticlimactic like it’s not meant to be a big fight it’s just two guys fighting, but the ending of it is bizarre the strange goodbye line even though she could have probably said it normally since she’s a mermaid.
"For as long as a single man is forced to cower under the iron fist of oppression, as long as a child cries out in the night, or an actor can be elected president, we must continue the struggle"
(Mike voice) "oooor, since his Name is Robert Picard, he might be a cross between Robert Picardo and Jean-Luc Picard, much like Tuvix was in that one Episode of Star Trek when Tuvok and Neelix..." (goes into full detail for about 5 minutes)
I LOVE how Jay took the time to mention that the Zuckers are from Milwaukee and said that led to their style of humor. I always lump Red Letter Media, the Zucker Brothers, and MST3K in a group of "midwestern humor" which I personally adore. :)
Jay's observation on the rigid plot structure really hits on something -- the gags work in part bc your brain keeps thinking it's watching a regular movie, so there is an element of surprise. Sort of why the Onion was so terrific in its heyday -- it looked and felt like a generic USA Today-style newspaper. If the layout was sloppy or they used "funny" fonts the premise falls apart.
Ja ja ja Soy de Argentina, de chica lo ví y no entendía lo que era una parodia y los chiste. Ahora de grande la volví a ver y morí de risa desde el comienzo. Es una lástima que al buscarlo en las diferentes plataformas de peliculas en castellano y/o español latino, algunos de los chistes se deformen un poco pero la magia y la diversión están ahí. Me encanta Val kilmer. Lo redescubrí este año gracias a Internet y pude ver la mayoría de sus trabajos. Me encanta .
The first time my brother and I saw this movie was on TV. We stumbled upon the opening train chase and we settled in for a Great Escape esque war movie. Then the soldier hit the bricks and what we got was two hours of uncontrollable laughter. It was so unexpected that every joke hit us hard enough to literally have us rolling on the floor laughing. It is truthfully the hardest I've ever laughed in my life.
it's amazing how wrong expectations can have extremely positve effect on a movie watching experiance ... for example one of my favourite movies of all time is Gravity (2013), all i knew about the movie is that sandra bullock and george clooney starr in it, i didn't watch trailer or read synposs, based on a movie poster i thought it was gonna be a romantic comedy in space, when the music and action kicked in it hit me like a freight train, i was absolutely awestruck with the film... if i had seen the trailer, my impressions would probably be exact opposite...
@@Stephen7764. This happened to my parents while vacationing without us kids. They walked into Raiders of the Lost Ark because they recognized Harrison Ford from American Graffiti. Needless to say what they got was anything but American Graffiti. They said they felt like they discovered Disneyland in a strip mall
The Montgomery Ward Mailing List was: If you were on it, you would get this huge cumbersome catalog more frequently than you would like. It was like a phone book. You had to carry it from the mailbox and then you had to get rid of it somehow because another one was on the way.
I didn't get it specifically because i'm not American. But I recall immediately imagining it as any number of mailing lists where one keeps getting essentially harrased by excessive mailer after mailer.
I know many people in Slovenia probably got offended by it, but EUROTRIP is another awesome comedy. And the Slovenia part is so damn funny (obviously completely nonsensic, exchange rates don´t even work like that just to start. And yeah, they filmed the Slovenia outside shot on a gypsy ghetto it seems) "a nickel!!!" turns around and faces hotel boss "You see this?? I QUIT" slaps boss in the face "I will buy my own hotel!"
I think you guys get exactly why I love the underwater fight scene. It's just so ridiculous, it's so dumb, it keeps building on with extra features like the bartender and the card-players, and it clearly took _way too much talent and effort_ to film, that it pretty much automatically becomes funny. It was the very definition of "crazy awesome".
I’m surprised that Val Kilmer didn’t do more comedy work in his career, as “Top Secret” and “Real Genius” are fantastic films that still hold up well over 30 years later.
Near the there's a marquee advertising a Nick Rivers concert for a few seconds. At the bottom of the sign it says "And time permitting, Frank Sinatra."
When you're comparing the Zuckers to other comedy movies of the time, I think you've got to mention Mel Brooks, and then you also have to go back to Monty Python, and the biggest difference stylistically is that in other style parodies the situation is more likely to be played straight, with the characters acting silly, whereas in the Zucker movies the situation is played silly, while the characters play it straight. And that this meshes with the idea of "Midwestern" style comedy, because Midwestern style comedy is largely about people who try to keep up appearances and control themselves even when their scenario is absurd (like Harold Ramis in his different genres, but similar style - or, you know, "Scientist Man.").
I think ultimately he plans to embed himself in a big block of melted movie merch tat, like what happened to that guy Harrison Silo in that 70s sci-fi movie
First off, Top Secret is one of my favorite comedies of all time forget hidden gem. Secondly, the Nick Rivers getting tortured and having that high school exam nightmare scenario and having him awaken to still being tortured and his level of relief is maybe one of my favorite scenes for comedy ever written. We've all had that nightmare before. I'm disabled and worked for many decades but i still wake up some days with the "late for work" anxiety that i've made it to getting in the shower before realizing i don't have to work today.
I love that Peter Cushing's giant eye is an obscure but fun reference to a publicity still from "The Curse of Frankenstein" where Cushing has the magnifying glass to his eye and makes it look enlarged. I only watched this once in the early 2000s when a group of friends had a movie night. I'll have to rewatch it very soon. Thank you for spotlighting it, guys! :)
I saw an interview with Leslie Nielson on the tubes recently and I think he hit the nail on the head regarding the comedic style. He described it as 'not mean spirited', where everyone in the scene is kind of the butt of the joke.
They exist in a reality where funny things are constantly happening and nobody is in on the joke. They don't introduce Latrine and have someone snicker, it's simply accepted that his name is Latrine. When Peter Cushing takes the glass away from his face and just has a big eye Val Kilmer doesn't recoil. Only we get to notice the absurdity.
@@jukeboxfandango Yeah. The fact everyone plays it straight makes it funnier, _and_ they wouldn't be able to get in as many gags if everybody reacted to everything.
I feel that in order to make a good spoof movie, a film-maker has to understand, respect and even love the genre they're spoofing. Take _Young Frankenstein_ for example. Mel Brooks fought the studio on that over making it in black and white, even losing his shit when he found out that they wanted to colourise it in post (so I heard).
@@KOTYAR1 Absotively. Some of the later Brooks-movies were not so great and closer to the spoof movie style(men in tights for example), but Young Fronkensteen is a good movie that just so happens to be extremely funny.
“Its a machine capable of separating the salt from 5000 gallons of seawater. Do you realise what that means?” “Wow, there would be enough salt to last forever,”
The scene where the soldier falls and shatters into pieces scared the shit out of me as a kid. That fear was compounded further by the uproarious laughter of my parents. Who were these cruel monsters that were so callous as to find a horrific death this funny? Would they laugh just as hard if it had happened to me, their only son? It wasn’t until I saw ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)’ and ‘The Stuff’ shortly after that this passing thought morphed into full-blown paranoia, from which I’m still reeling to this day.
I absolutely still carry the 'trauma' of being too young to fully understand jokes. The Landshark on SNL terrified me. The woman at the door gets her head eaten and everyone is laughing! I absolutely remember these things, so I'm really understanding when a child, a niece or something, gets scared by watching something not intended to be scary.
I loved that explanation. You hit the nail on the head explaining that childhood fear - "Would they laugh just as hard if it had happened to me, their only son?" that's hilariously accurate.
I don´t remember exactly how, but I watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the movie theater. I was born in 79 so I was surely a little kid when I did that. The scene where the priest rips the heart from the poor guy before throwing him at lava was a little more scary then any Top Secret movie.
I feel like if you want to make a comedy today, and you're not just making straight to redbox trash, you have to add a prefix to it. Action-comedy. Sci-fi-comedy. Romance-comedy. There are plenty of movies that are funny, but very few whose only goal is to be funny. They still need that third act moment where you have to be sad and realize, no, this is also a serious story where we have AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO TELL. Hell, even Deadpool 2 was actually ABOUT something (which, I mean, I'm not going to say this is a bad thing. It can work. But Rare is the movie where you're not expected to take anything serious at all).
@@BakaHoushi Movie 43 seemed to be an attempt at that kind of comedy but in an anthology format, and I'm one of the six people on Earth who doesn't hate it. But I still think only about a 3rd of it is really funny.
Who do you think could be the next Leslie Nielsen? My pick would be Hugo Weaving. After the dramatic Agent Smiths, Elronds, and V (for Vendetta) characters, seeing him do straight-man comedy would be delightful.
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself It's not in movies, but I think Andre Braugher's in prime position to be the next Leslie Nielsen. He spends Brooklyn Nine-Nine playing an AMAZING straight man in a role that's essentially a parody of the things that made him famous.
I always referred to these sort of films as _"laugh-a-minute"_ comedies. And while Abrahams and the Zuckers are largely responsible for the golden age of this style of comedy, please don't forget their collaborator and writing genius, Pat Proft. He's largely uncredited in these films. His film "Real Genius" is a great example of his writing talent.
Mike would probably come up with something like "well, the name of the german officer is Robert Picard, so we MIGHT have a situation like in that one episode of Star Trek, when a transporter malfunction formed a new character called Tuvix, who was created by the energy patterns of Tuvok and Neelix, soooo.... Robert Picard couldve been created by ROBERT Picardo and Jean-Luc Picard..."
The german officer (presumably the one in the Montgomery Ward joke) is Warren Clarke, who is also known to American audiences for playing Dim in _A Clockwork Orange_ and to Brits as a prolific television actor, including as one of the title characters in _Dalziel and Pascoe._
Hi, I (german, born early 80's, living in West-Berlin by the time the Wall came down) love this movie. Thank you for the re:view. The gags, the style, the actors - everything is so good. I knew this movie in the german translation since I was a child and I watched it english; both versions are eqaully good.
Same here: born in early 80s in West-Berlin, grew up with this movie (in German translateion) and still love it! Cheers to my unknown buddy from my home town
I’ve seen this movie hundreds of times but never saw Val Kilmer getting measured for a suit 😂 each time you watch this movie, there is a good chance you see something you’ve missed before
Interesting. I didn’t know about the Ford Pinto thing, but I always loved that joke. I took it as a joke based on the fact that everything makes American cars always blow up in these action movies.
Ford Pinto had a gas tank that was literally next to the rear bumper. Many Pintos have "blown up" when rear ended. Crappy cheap car that everyone had. Jeez I'm old. Hahahaha!!
As the result of a lawsuit an internal Ford memo was discovered from the development of the Pinto, where Ford compared the cost of changing the fuel system to the cost of personal injury lawsuits for people horribly burned or killed during crashes. They calculated that the cost of the lawsuits was lower so they didn't bother changing it.
Same. I'm Spanish, saw this as a kid, that gag works perfectly because every other action movie out there has cars exploding each time they crash each other. I had never heard of what a Ford Pinto was at the time, I laughed all the same.
only ZAZ knew how to use Leslie Nielsen. Top Secret is one of the best comedies of all time, and one of the most underrated movies ever. the mood is right and the gags ambitious and actually funny. This is the review it deserves.
While I generally agree, there are a few exceptions: "Wrongfully Accused" isn't as good as say Airplane or Naked Gun... but probably about on par with the Naked Gun sequels. Enough solid gags to make it a worthy viewing... and it's directed / written by Pat Proft who was a writer from the Naked Gun show/movies. "Dracula Dead and Loving It" is a lesser Mel Brooks movie, but both Nielsen and Peter MacNicol (Janoosh? from Ghostbusters 2) are both pretty funny in it.
I vaguely remember fire based recalls for the PT Cruiser during the 2000s, so the idea of a car being known for setting alight during crashes, transfers between generations to at least some degree. As others mentioned it works for other reasons too (spoof of how explodeable Hollywood cars are, and just a visual gag in its own right)
Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker are the masters of the spoof-comedy genre,along with Mel Brooks.Abrahams also directed the 2 excellent '' Hot Shot'' movies on his own. There's no comparison between these guys and the creators of the ''Date/Desaster-whatever Movies''.
I think this is my favorite of all the re:Views. I've seen Top Secret like a dozen times and there's still so much they bring up that I hadn't thought about.
The serious orchestral music in these films for me is a huge part of why I laugh. Every now and then I watch the dog biscuit joke and I laugh out loud every single time. My fave gag ever I think.
One of the weird surreal jokes the mention is great, we can see in the background a pigeon statue and flying humans landing on it. Subtle and absurd. Perfect.
Gotdamn, 1984 was a crowded year for iconic and notable movies! Top Secret Repo Man This Is Spinal Tap Police Academy Romancing The Stone Firestarter Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Star Trek III: The Search For Spock Ghostbusters Gremlins (two of the best in their franchise vvv) A Nightmare On Elm Street Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter The Karate Kid The Last Starfighter The Muppets Take Manhatten The NeverEnding Story Revenge Of The Nerds Red Dawn C.H.U.D. The Terminator Missing In Action Beverly Hills Cop Dune 1984 Starman ...to name a few. All but eight of those went on to have at least one sequel.
Man I watched Top Secret for the first time today and I say that it has to be one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen! I haven’t laughed throughout a movie in the longest time! Highly underrated movie.
The best ZAZ comedy and best comedy in general. The amount of gags in this one is just incredible and hearing that this was Val Kilmer‘s first ever screen appearance is just mind boggling. His timing is just amazing.
This movie was forbidden fruit to me for over twenty years. It came out when I was 11, and I sooo wanted to see it after watching the previews, but my mom refused to take me to it: it was too silly, not highbrow enough, and I think the scene of the girl with her boobs in the sand deeply offended mom's feminist sensibilities. I finally got to see it at age 32 when I met a friend who had the DVD. I was so excited when he suggested watching it, and it was worth the wait!
Holy shit, I've never been more excited for a re:view notification than this one! I grew up on this movie and I'm glad you guys are giving it the recognition it deserves. Great job
You did it. I dont know how you did it, but you did it. You managed to approach this topic without mentioning the other cinematic powerhouse in this area, adjancent to ZAZ... Mel Brooks.
To this day when playing battlefield with my brother randomly firing into a mixed room of allies and enemies and only killing the enemies is known as a "chocolate moose" Love this movie
Holy hell I haven't thought about Top Secret in forever. So glad you guys made a vid about it, such a fantastic movie! The cow costume gets meeeee every time.
When I was 15 my parents got this movie from a dollar store and my dad told me he remembered it being pretty funny. I had a lot of movies from the dollar store they had bought me that were absolutely awful so I didn't think much of it, then I finally watched it. I laughed so hard I got a nosebleed and me and my brother sat down and watched the entire thing. I can't believe this movie is actually known, I thought it was some weird budget movie no one else knew about.
“Don’t worry, Nick. Life is full of its little miseries. We must learn to deal with them in a mature and adult fashion.” (Sneezes into hands) Aaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! (Jumps out the window)
Weird Al song aren't only style parody, they're style perfectionism, since Devo themselves said Al did Devo better than they ever could with Dare To Be Stupid.
@Tomas Knyvett Kurt mother-loving Cobain himself loved Weird Al's parodies and said that he knew that Nirvana had "made it" when "Smells like Nirvana" came out. Come on.
@Tomas Knyvett That's an absolute lie. His pancreas song is original music and it sounds EXACTLY like a Brian Wilson song. Weird Al is so much more than the silly parody guy. He's actually a very talented musician.
i was living in a house with a lot of roommates and we had a movie night one night and I suggested Airplane. they switched it off after 15 minutes and it broke my heart
My favorite bit is when they start kissing at the swedish book shop and the camera moves to a fireplace, but then they roll in that shot and the camera has to move toanother fireplace.
My favorite is when they have that dramatic conversation while parachuting and it ends with them kissing and the camera pans to a fireplace parachuting behind them. Comedy gold.
Man don’t sleep on these Re:Views. This is the third movie these guys have helped me realize exists that I keep adding to my list! First a David Byrne movie and now a Zucker movie I didn’t know about!?
no joke, the underwater fight scene is a stunning achievement in moviemaking, and the best thing about it that it's simply done for a bunch of silly gags. fantastic. love the whole movie.
I’m glad Jay mentioned Weird Al, style parodies we’re my favorite songs of his. Top Secret is style parodies within great writing. The jokes are layered absurd on the surface, funny if you know the reference, and genius when you put it all together.
The reason I heard Police Squad was cancelled after so few episodes was because the network felt the humor required the viewer to think too much. The jokes were going over people's heads because they were expecting the usual dumb TV humor and here was something where you had to pay attention to get a lot of the gags. Yes...Police Squad was too intelligent for television.
I think it was the executive in charge of programming that was quoted saying something to the effect of "the audience had to actually watch it to enjoy it" as the reason for its cancellation :/
Not necessarily "too smart." The feeling was that people didn't pay full attention to a TV show the way they did a movie. As Police Squad was very deadpan, it didn't "signal" jokes the way, say, a laugh track would - hence the infamous exec line that people actually had to watch the show to enjoy it.
Police Squad was absolutely hilarious. I never seen my mother laugh so hard at the dentist scene "I'm not an animal, i'm a human being". and the red stain mouth / pistachio shell pile. I thought for sure it was on for a full season. I guess I just watched each episode over and over. My favorite was the banana chunk stuck to the tall guys face.
The hardest I've ever seen my dad laugh was the red pistachio shell scene. I actually thought he was going to have a heart attack or something he was laughing so hard.
I remember loving this movie when I was small. When I saw it many years later, I can't believe how much of the humor must have absolutely soared over my head.
Greetings from Scotland...my father worked in a video shop in the 80s for a while,and brought this gem home one day, my 14 year old friend and my father and I were in tears from start to finish...the best Zucker and Zuker film bar none...yes airplane and naked gun are funny but it seems that they hit lightning in a bottle on this one...il take some of these gags to the grave with me...perfection
When I saw this in Australia I didnt know about the Pinto cars exploding from rear contact. I thought the gag was making fun of all films at that time that every car seemed to explode no matter what happens to them. Its one of the gags I remembered from the film.
good to see colin had time off from working at black mesa to visit the gang
how deep does the rlm lore go?
@@Davethebeaver2can guarantee Colin was behind the resonance cascade
Look at a picture of Dr. Kleiner and look at Colin, he stole that sweater from his dad 100%
Time, dr Colin Freeman?
feels good to get out of those ridiculous ties
My favorite bit in Top Secret is when they're planning their break in, and they start with sketching in dirt with a stick, then bring out one little prop cow, and by the end of it, have an entire, highly detailed mock up of the complex and the surrounding area, complete with running train.
And the cricket. Seriously. That cricket killed me. It was so stupid but it still hit me so hard, I couldn't stop laughing....
I loved the underwater bar fight
Yeah i love how every joke subtly builds up. You're just watching them explain the plan. And before you know you're seeing a miniature castle with a gate. It's so great.
Is that where "Latrine" spits out a unused Cigarette and inserts a new unused one?
ramjb itchy dry
Quality stuff. Jay and Young Eminem knocked it out of the park.
Apparently Colin was born the same year as Eminem.
Ben Buckley Productions oh yeah colin looks great for like 49
Slim Jesus
Feminem
Jay: So Marshall, what did you think of Top Secret?
Eminem: You know a lotta people think you can't rhyme nothing with orange. It's real easy though you just gotta think outside the box.
Jay: *stares off in distance*
At 16:24, note how Val Kilmer lurches as the "train" moves in order to make it more believable.
So much attention to detail to sell the dumbest jokes. This movie is genius.
Plus the breeze in his hair. Solid gold genius.
I wanna say its just building gags out of real setups and conventions like its some easy thing, but that was as much a craft as actually doing the real deal.
Then why is it a dumb joke? It's a brilliant joke, no one ever expected the station to move. To think of that as a writer is smart.
Good eye, Boonehams. Never consciously noticed his "lurch" before.
Everything in it is awesome
"Is this the potato farm?" "Yes, I am Albert Potato"
Still makes me laugh.
I never see those sorts of name pun gags in comedies anymore, maybe it’s just a Zucker specific thing.
“Surely you can’t be serious!”
“I’m serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”
It’s like the peak form of dad jokes
One of the best jokes in the film. I laugh whenever I remember it.
I loved how the phone call to the Mayo Clinic cuts to a guy in an office full of jars of mayonnaise.
Bernhard Hedlund just reading this comment made me laugh out loud
@@_WhiteMage Like the Prop Room...full of propellers.
Love this flick. Some of the best lines of ALL TIME.
"Let me know if his condition changes."
Hangs up phone.
"He's dead."
😆
Never seen the movie but I'm giggling
It’s brilliant
My favourite as well
Poor Colonel Krueger
This film has some of my favourite lines of any film. A man on a phone says "I see. Let me know if there's any change in his condition." Hangs up the phone. "He's dead."
Poor Sargent Kruger........
To shreds you say...
"I don't think people knew what to make of it"
Well, you can make a hat, you can make a brooch, you can make a pterodactyl ...
My favorite sight gag of all time; as they're escaping the ballet, they open a janitor's closet, and the janitor is just standing in there. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but it floors me every time.
And my favorite sight gag of all time is literally two seconds after that when they escape into the "Prop Room" and it's filled top to bottom with airplane propellers.
@@TonyBlue87 that's a joke that will escape anyone who is not a native english speaker. I never notice that one. Never knew the name was prop room and I would never make the connection to "propellers" (prop room meaning property, I guess?)
@@rogeriopenna9014 i don't know where the term originates, but props are just the objects in the movie. like lamps and tables or fake swords. but its a LITERAL prop room, as in propellers
@@Antomaru In stagecraft, it's short for "property." Loose items handled by the actors that aren't part of a set or costume.
@@TonyBlue87 and they brace the door with the huge propeller, hanging from a pair of chandelleirs on each side of the door. When the soldiers finally burst through, it's the propeller that broke in two. The chandelliers haven't moved a millimeter.
“Who are you and how did you get in here?”
“ I’m a locksmith and ... I’m a locksmith.” Oh police squad, six episodes was not enough.
It took me two weeks to find Stella's apartment...she had neglected to give me her address.
"Cigarette?"
"Yes, I know."
We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then...
Check out Angie Tribeca. On its fourth season and pretty much the same thing.
Newspaper headlines: "Chump KO's Champ!"......"Champ OK's Chump!"
The underwater fight scene is a good example of why ZAZ movies were amazing. After deciding what the gag was going to be, they implement it 100% seriously with proper filmmaking effort. That underwear fight used excellent practical effects. They had weighted shoes and really were in a tank underwater, holding their breath during the takes.
6:34 In a movie with a plot, the fate of the resistance-leader would have been more clear. Do the cowboys put him in jail? What for, brawling? Do they summon witnesses to his greater crimes? Does he drown? You'ld think so but Hillary already thought he'd drowned when he never came back to the island. He has a history of getting rescued by political factions.
Yeah it’s a ridiculous fight scene, but the way he just easily drowns Nigel, is intentionally anticlimactic like it’s not meant to be a big fight it’s just two guys fighting, but the ending of it is bizarre the strange goodbye line even though she could have probably said it normally since she’s a mermaid.
Underwear fight?
"For as long as a single man is forced to cower under the iron fist of oppression, as long as a child cries out in the night, or an actor can be elected president, we must continue the struggle"
The president line omg
How timely.
@@ujjwalmishra8962 it would have been written about reagan
@@daltonbedore8396 Yes, we know. We all know our history.
“I haven’t felt this bad since we saw that Ronald Reagan movie”
I wish Mike was on this episode so he could point out how one of the nazis is Picard's brother from Star Trek.
Don't you get it? You ARE Mike now
(Mike voice) "oooor, since his Name is Robert Picard, he might be a cross between Robert Picardo and Jean-Luc Picard, much like Tuvix was in that one Episode of Star Trek when Tuvok and Neelix..." (goes into full detail for about 5 minutes)
You can bet Picard won't be having an emotional breakdown that results in a mud fight with his brother in the new Picard series.
Jay should have mentioned the (East?) German officer on the train in Warren Clarke, one of Alex's Droogs from A Clockwork Orange.
@@tentringer4065 and the guy who gets Clint Eastwood in to steal the Firefox.
I LOVE how Jay took the time to mention that the Zuckers are from Milwaukee and said that led to their style of humor. I always lump Red Letter Media, the Zucker Brothers, and MST3K in a group of "midwestern humor" which I personally adore. :)
Jay's observation on the rigid plot structure really hits on something -- the gags work in part bc your brain keeps thinking it's watching a regular movie, so there is an element of surprise. Sort of why the Onion was so terrific in its heyday -- it looked and felt like a generic USA Today-style newspaper. If the layout was sloppy or they used "funny" fonts the premise falls apart.
It's so dense, every scene has so many jokes going on.
Immeasurably dense. Its amazing!
Top Secret is an absolute masterpiece. Everyone when I was a kid here in Argentina LOVED this film. They still play it sometimes. It's simply a gem.
Siiiii.... por TE-LE-FE!!!!
hace como una semana la pasaron por fxm y la vi por primera vez :D
@@bilbobolsonaro1316 en castellano??
Ja ja ja Soy de Argentina, de chica lo ví y no entendía lo que era una parodia y los chiste. Ahora de grande la volví a ver y morí de risa desde el comienzo. Es una lástima que al buscarlo en las diferentes plataformas de peliculas en castellano y/o español latino, algunos de los chistes se deformen un poco pero la magia y la diversión están ahí. Me encanta Val kilmer. Lo redescubrí este año gracias a Internet y pude ver la mayoría de sus trabajos. Me encanta .
1. Skeetin' USA
2. Skeet City
3. Your Skeetin' Heart
Pan And Scan Buddy I had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard at the concept of "skeet surfing." It's so brilliantly stupid.
It's why Nick is also such a great shot in the fights!
What's funny is "Skeet" has a whole new meaning post Lil Wayne.
The first time my brother and I saw this movie was on TV. We stumbled upon the opening train chase and we settled in for a Great Escape esque war movie. Then the soldier hit the bricks and what we got was two hours of uncontrollable laughter. It was so unexpected that every joke hit us hard enough to literally have us rolling on the floor laughing. It is truthfully the hardest I've ever laughed in my life.
it's amazing how wrong expectations can have extremely positve effect on a movie watching experiance ... for example one of my favourite movies of all time is Gravity (2013), all i knew about the movie is that sandra bullock and george clooney starr in it, i didn't watch trailer or read synposs, based on a movie poster i thought it was gonna be a romantic comedy in space, when the music and action kicked in it hit me like a freight train, i was absolutely awestruck with the film... if i had seen the trailer, my impressions would probably be exact opposite...
@@Stephen7764. This happened to my parents while vacationing without us kids. They walked into Raiders of the Lost Ark because they recognized Harrison Ford from American Graffiti. Needless to say what they got was anything but American Graffiti. They said they felt like they discovered Disneyland in a strip mall
The Montgomery Ward Mailing List was: If you were on it, you would get this huge cumbersome catalog more frequently than you would like. It was like a phone book. You had to carry it from the mailbox and then you had to get rid of it somehow because another one was on the way.
Seeing Colin and Jay not understand that joke made me feel so old...
And in later years you always wished it was a victorious secret catalog.
I didn't get it specifically because i'm not American. But I recall immediately imagining it as any number of mailing lists where one keeps getting essentially harrased by excessive mailer after mailer.
@@conorpm9009 Yeah, agreed; it's funny even without knowing the specific reference. That crap will always be around.
That sounds like using someone's email address to sign them up to a bunch of shitty newsletters that will clog up their inbox.
Top Secret is very big in Slovenia, it was on TV all the time in the 90s, everybody has seen it a million times.
Now I know which movie to quote on my visit this summer
Same in Hungary...
Top Slavic
In Croatia Airplane is considered american comedy classic. Top Secret was popular, but not on Airplane/Naked Gun level.
I know many people in Slovenia probably got offended by it, but EUROTRIP is another awesome comedy. And the Slovenia part is so damn funny (obviously completely nonsensic, exchange rates don´t even work like that just to start. And yeah, they filmed the Slovenia outside shot on a gypsy ghetto it seems)
"a nickel!!!"
turns around and faces hotel boss
"You see this?? I QUIT"
slaps boss in the face
"I will buy my own hotel!"
Now more than ever, the world needs Skeet Surfing.
Great gag
@@Dashoost Recently downloaded a vinyl rip of that, as well as How Silly Can You Get and Spend This Night With Me.
That Butch Cassidy shoeing the bikes away joke is hilarious.
I think you guys get exactly why I love the underwater fight scene. It's just so ridiculous, it's so dumb, it keeps building on with extra features like the bartender and the card-players, and it clearly took _way too much talent and effort_ to film, that it pretty much automatically becomes funny.
It was the very definition of "crazy awesome".
“In women’s tennis I Always bet against the heterosexual.”
I'd seen this movie so often i used to be able to sing the east german national anthem in the 90s. it got me in trouble at work so I stopped.
@@SeagullsGather I would still continue watching this movie, work be damned.
@@SeagullsGather stopped working, I presume?
@@IvanToshkov Yes: you presume.
"What phony dog poo?"
I’m surprised that Val Kilmer didn’t do more comedy work in his career, as “Top Secret” and “Real Genius” are fantastic films that still hold up well over 30 years later.
He's great in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
He was the antagonist in the Macgruber movie.
Near the there's a marquee advertising a Nick Rivers concert for a few seconds. At the bottom of the sign it says "And time permitting, Frank Sinatra."
near the what
The Sheriff is near the Marquee. ("Before and After". Wheel Of Fortune.) Wrong Movie. I do not care. Head me off, at the Pass, if you desire.
@@AleK0451 Try using a Magnifying Glass, for fun. "Eye" dare you.
The scene where we think the guy is singing, but it turns out to be the horse gets me every time. This movie is absolutely hilarious
😂 "He's just a little horse"
When you're comparing the Zuckers to other comedy movies of the time, I think you've got to mention Mel Brooks, and then you also have to go back to Monty Python, and the biggest difference stylistically is that in other style parodies the situation is more likely to be played straight, with the characters acting silly, whereas in the Zucker movies the situation is played silly, while the characters play it straight. And that this meshes with the idea of "Midwestern" style comedy, because Midwestern style comedy is largely about people who try to keep up appearances and control themselves even when their scenario is absurd (like Harold Ramis in his different genres, but similar style - or, you know, "Scientist Man.").
And speaking of shitty parody movies, Mel Brooks also a great example of that too
Mike is still melting his toys
He is making a Borg cube with them like that one episode of Star Trek The Next Generation where...
He died from the toxic fumes.
..and inhaling the fumes. Which means he gears up.
I think ultimately he plans to embed himself in a big block of melted movie merch tat,
like what happened to that guy Harrison Silo in that 70s sci-fi movie
First off, Top Secret is one of my favorite comedies of all time forget hidden gem. Secondly, the Nick Rivers getting tortured and having that high school exam nightmare scenario and having him awaken to still being tortured and his level of relief is maybe one of my favorite scenes for comedy ever written. We've all had that nightmare before. I'm disabled and worked for many decades but i still wake up some days with the "late for work" anxiety that i've made it to getting in the shower before realizing i don't have to work today.
"And this is Deja Vu"
"Have we not met before?"
"...no I don't think so."
CLASSIC!!!!
I love that Peter Cushing's giant eye is an obscure but fun reference to a publicity still from "The Curse of Frankenstein" where Cushing has the magnifying glass to his eye and makes it look enlarged. I only watched this once in the early 2000s when a group of friends had a movie night. I'll have to rewatch it very soon. Thank you for spotlighting it, guys! :)
Deep cuts lol
I saw an interview with Leslie Nielson on the tubes recently and I think he hit the nail on the head regarding the comedic style. He described it as 'not mean spirited', where everyone in the scene is kind of the butt of the joke.
They exist in a reality where funny things are constantly happening and nobody is in on the joke. They don't introduce Latrine and have someone snicker, it's simply accepted that his name is Latrine. When Peter Cushing takes the glass away from his face and just has a big eye Val Kilmer doesn't recoil. Only we get to notice the absurdity.
@@jukeboxfandango Yeah. The fact everyone plays it straight makes it funnier, _and_ they wouldn't be able to get in as many gags if everybody reacted to everything.
I feel that in order to make a good spoof movie, a film-maker has to understand, respect and even love the genre they're spoofing.
Take _Young Frankenstein_ for example. Mel Brooks fought the studio on that over making it in black and white, even losing his shit when he found out that they wanted to colourise it in post (so I heard).
Is Young Frankenstein a good movie?
@@KOTYAR1 Absotively. Some of the later Brooks-movies were not so great and closer to the spoof movie style(men in tights for example), but Young Fronkensteen is a good movie that just so happens to be extremely funny.
@@KaffeKopp3 thank you very much
“Its a machine capable of separating the salt from 5000 gallons of seawater. Do you realise what that means?”
“Wow, there would be enough salt to last forever,”
The scene where the soldier falls and shatters into pieces scared the shit out of me as a kid. That fear was compounded further by the uproarious laughter of my parents. Who were these cruel monsters that were so callous as to find a horrific death this funny? Would they laugh just as hard if it had happened to me, their only son? It wasn’t until I saw ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)’ and ‘The Stuff’ shortly after that this passing thought morphed into full-blown paranoia, from which I’m still reeling to this day.
There was something weirdly surreal about that scene. It is brilliant though.
I absolutely still carry the 'trauma' of being too young to fully understand jokes. The Landshark on SNL terrified me. The woman at the door gets her head eaten and everyone is laughing! I absolutely remember these things, so I'm really understanding when a child, a niece or something, gets scared by watching something not intended to be scary.
I loved that explanation. You hit the nail on the head explaining that childhood fear - "Would they laugh just as hard if it had happened to me, their only son?" that's hilariously accurate.
I don´t remember exactly how, but I watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the movie theater. I was born in 79 so I was surely a little kid when I did that. The scene where the priest rips the heart from the poor guy before throwing him at lava was a little more scary then any Top Secret movie.
God damn I miss straight comedies like this. I hope there's a resurgence some day.
I feel like if you want to make a comedy today, and you're not just making straight to redbox trash, you have to add a prefix to it. Action-comedy. Sci-fi-comedy. Romance-comedy. There are plenty of movies that are funny, but very few whose only goal is to be funny. They still need that third act moment where you have to be sad and realize, no, this is also a serious story where we have AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO TELL. Hell, even Deadpool 2 was actually ABOUT something (which, I mean, I'm not going to say this is a bad thing. It can work. But Rare is the movie where you're not expected to take anything serious at all).
@@BakaHoushi Movie 43 seemed to be an attempt at that kind of comedy but in an anthology format, and I'm one of the six people on Earth who doesn't hate it. But I still think only about a 3rd of it is really funny.
Who do you think could be the next Leslie Nielsen?
My pick would be Hugo Weaving. After the dramatic Agent Smiths, Elronds, and V (for Vendetta) characters, seeing him do straight-man comedy would be delightful.
you guys would love simon pegg and nick frost's movies
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself It's not in movies, but I think Andre Braugher's in prime position to be the next Leslie Nielsen. He spends Brooklyn Nine-Nine playing an AMAZING straight man in a role that's essentially a parody of the things that made him famous.
The joke in this movie where the railway station pulls away from the train is my all-time favourite joke in movie history. It is absolute perfection.
I love when Nigel walks out of the office and he is still wearing the loin cloth from the island 😂
Come my darling, let me show you what I've done with the fallout shelter
Holy shit, I didn't know Colin worked in anomalous materials.
That was my thought when I saw him with that sweater on. :D
Canadian Resonance Cascade.
It's top secret.
Is Colin replacing Freeman?
Jay: Hey Colin, what's been happening up in Canada?
Colin: Uh, Borealis?
I love me some Jay and Canadian Jay
darklsn jay as jay and Eminem as Canadian jay
Cajaydian
Like hollandaise and mayonnaise having a discussion.
I always referred to these sort of films as _"laugh-a-minute"_ comedies. And while Abrahams and the Zuckers are largely responsible for the golden age of this style of comedy, please don't forget their collaborator and writing genius, Pat Proft. He's largely uncredited in these films. His film "Real Genius" is a great example of his writing talent.
I'll also throw in both Hot Shots films and the Naked Gun trilogy
The giant phone gag is one my favorite gags EVER...
How did Mike allow this to happen without him? The german officer is Robert Picard!
That's Robert Picardo...and no it's NOT Robert Picardo.
oh wait..there is a robert picard. character name robert' picard..youre right
Mike would probably come up with something like "well, the name of the german officer is Robert Picard, so we MIGHT have a situation like in that one episode of Star Trek, when a transporter malfunction formed a new character called Tuvix, who was created by the energy patterns of Tuvok and Neelix, soooo.... Robert Picard couldve been created by ROBERT Picardo and Jean-Luc Picard..."
@@trentsolie4146 I made this mistake too. They're just too similar.
The german officer (presumably the one in the Montgomery Ward joke) is Warren Clarke, who is also known to American audiences for playing Dim in _A Clockwork Orange_ and to Brits as a prolific television actor, including as one of the title characters in _Dalziel and Pascoe._
Hi,
I (german, born early 80's, living in West-Berlin by the time the Wall came down) love this movie. Thank you for the re:view.
The gags, the style, the actors - everything is so good. I knew this movie in the german translation since I was a child and I watched it english; both versions are eqaully good.
"I know a little German... he's right over there." Forgive me, but I can't help not use that line.
Same here: born in early 80s in West-Berlin, grew up with this movie (in German translateion) and still love it! Cheers to my unknown buddy from my home town
I’ve seen this movie hundreds of times but never saw Val Kilmer getting measured for a suit 😂 each time you watch this movie, there is a good chance you see something you’ve missed before
Imagine if the Zuckers make a movie today starring someone like Daniel Day-Lewis.
I nominate Hugo Weaving (or maybe even Liam Neeson) to be the next straight-man comedic actor.
The milkshake line, but in Airplane.
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself Wow, you should've bought a lottery ticket.
Interesting. I didn’t know about the Ford Pinto thing, but I always loved that joke. I took it as a joke based on the fact that everything makes American cars always blow up in these action movies.
Ford Pinto had a gas tank that was literally next to the rear bumper. Many Pintos have "blown up" when rear ended. Crappy cheap car that everyone had. Jeez I'm old. Hahahaha!!
As the result of a lawsuit an internal Ford memo was discovered from the development of the Pinto, where Ford compared the cost of changing the fuel system to the cost of personal injury lawsuits for people horribly burned or killed during crashes. They calculated that the cost of the lawsuits was lower so they didn't bother changing it.
Same. I'm Spanish, saw this as a kid, that gag works perfectly because every other action movie out there has cars exploding each time they crash each other. I had never heard of what a Ford Pinto was at the time, I laughed all the same.
It's a good example of how to future proof reference jokes.
Saw this in the theatre and I recall this gag getting applause. I, too, am old.
I loved Top Secret, I'm glad you guys reviewed it
It was recently shown on TV here in the UK. They had cut it so much that a lot of the comedy didn't land.
only ZAZ knew how to use Leslie Nielsen.
Top Secret is one of the best comedies of all time, and one of the most underrated movies ever.
the mood is right and the gags ambitious and actually funny. This is the review it deserves.
Well, in comedy you mean? If so I agree.
But he was OK in Poseidon's Adventure and great in Forbidden Planet.
While I generally agree, there are a few exceptions: "Wrongfully Accused" isn't as good as say Airplane or Naked Gun... but probably about on par with the Naked Gun sequels. Enough solid gags to make it a worthy viewing... and it's directed / written by Pat Proft who was a writer from the Naked Gun show/movies. "Dracula Dead and Loving It" is a lesser Mel Brooks movie, but both Nielsen and Peter MacNicol (Janoosh? from Ghostbusters 2) are both pretty funny in it.
My favorite scene is when they introduce the resistance fighters and a lot of them are named after french pastries.
LATRINE!
Except la latrines hahahaha
Not even French pastries, just random French words 🤣
Et la chocolate moose *eats cigar*
This film was way more dignifying for Peter Cushing than Rogue One was.
Haha, that's deffo true.
I didn't know about the Ford Pinto, but when I saw that gag and the way it was filmed, I knew it was a car notorious for exploding easily.
I didn't know about the ford pinto either I always thought they were making fun of how easily cars explode in general in Hollywood movies haha.
It also works very well as just a generic visual gag. Tiny ding and car explodes. Classic cartoon stuff.
@Zissou Moonshot Some news show got sued for showing them explode and they had to achieve it by using hobbyist rocket engines.
I vaguely remember fire based recalls for the PT Cruiser during the 2000s, so the idea of a car being known for setting alight during crashes, transfers between generations to at least some degree. As others mentioned it works for other reasons too (spoof of how explodeable Hollywood cars are, and just a visual gag in its own right)
well, we are not an average/modern audience, we are following RLM!
In my opinion, Nigel’s punches in the underwater fight scene are the best looking punches in movie history
These are the kind of comedies that I call "dad movies." Just hilarious, constant, absurd, slap-stick jokes
Top Secret. The best sequel Blue Lagoon ever had.
Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker are the masters of the spoof-comedy genre,along with Mel Brooks.Abrahams also directed the 2 excellent '' Hot Shot'' movies on his own.
There's no comparison between these guys and the creators of the ''Date/Desaster-whatever Movies''.
Masters? So scary movie 3 Is
a masterpiece?
@@mikeyreu5285 It's still the best of the bunch.
The only comedy that is on that level and isn't from ZAZ or Mel Brooks is Weird Al's UHF and maybe the Austin Powers movies.
@@ThreadBomb Which ZAZ movie would you prefer to Blazing Saddles?
I think this is my favorite of all the re:Views. I've seen Top Secret like a dozen times and there's still so much they bring up that I hadn't thought about.
"We found him impaled upon a large electrical device"
It took our surgeons two hours to get the smile off of his face.
Skeet Surfing is the best song written for a movie.
I just want to tell you both good luck; we're all counting on you.
Only a quarter of this fan base will know what this is.
You know you have to follow this up by appearing in the comment sections of their next two videos and repeating the line, right?
The serious orchestral music in these films for me is a huge part of why I laugh. Every now and then I watch the dog biscuit joke and I laugh out loud every single time. My fave gag ever I think.
One of the weird surreal jokes the mention is great, we can see in the background a pigeon statue and flying humans landing on it. Subtle and absurd. Perfect.
Gotdamn, 1984 was a crowded year for iconic and notable movies!
Top Secret
Repo Man
This Is Spinal Tap
Police Academy
Romancing The Stone
Firestarter
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
(two of the best in their franchise vvv)
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
The Karate Kid
The Last Starfighter
The Muppets Take Manhatten
The NeverEnding Story
Revenge Of The Nerds
Red Dawn
C.H.U.D.
The Terminator
Missing In Action
Beverly Hills Cop
Dune
1984
Starman
...to name a few. All but eight of those went on to have at least one sequel.
One of my favorites is "Wow, they'll have enough salt to last forever!"
It went over my head as a kid.
I will never ever forget the scene under water. That is the single best piece of comedy for me.
Man I watched Top Secret for the first time today and I say that it has to be one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen! I haven’t laughed throughout a movie in the longest time! Highly underrated movie.
The best ZAZ comedy and best comedy in general. The amount of gags in this one is just incredible and hearing that this was Val Kilmer‘s first ever screen appearance is just mind boggling. His timing is just amazing.
andersdenkend,
That wasn’t Val Kilmer. It was Mel Torme. Surprising range on that guy.
I can't believe I haven't seen this. I love Airplane! and Naked Gun. I'll be fixing that asap.
I saw this after the other ones as well. Enjoy it's a good one!
Same here! I love Airplane and that sort of comedy. I’ll have to check this one out now.
@@ThreadBomb Well I love some good absurdity and slapstick. What they showed mad me think it's my kind of thing.
One of the funniest parody movies ever
It really is the best, and that's saying a lot when you're comparing with Airplane!.
This movie was forbidden fruit to me for over twenty years. It came out when I was 11, and I sooo wanted to see it after watching the previews, but my mom refused to take me to it: it was too silly, not highbrow enough, and I think the scene of the girl with her boobs in the sand deeply offended mom's feminist sensibilities. I finally got to see it at age 32 when I met a friend who had the DVD. I was so excited when he suggested watching it, and it was worth the wait!
At 11, you might've been prohibited from entering. The film had a '15' certificate, if I remember correctly ;)
@@el-bov8034 Not with an adult.
I’d never noticed Jim repping the Black Mesa hoodie. My favourite game and favourite film together in one video.
Holy shit, I've never been more excited for a re:view notification than this one! I grew up on this movie and I'm glad you guys are giving it the recognition it deserves. Great job
6:05 Montgomery Ward was a department store that would send you like 5 ads in the mail every day
I've also heard that they would sell your information to a huge multitude of other companies who would also send you ads.
Change Montgomery wards to "Essential Oils" and and it still works.
Ah, thanks!
"Skeet Shootin'" is not only a parody of "Surfin' USA", it's close enough that Brian Wilson is credited as a writer.
You did it. I dont know how you did it, but you did it. You managed to approach this topic without mentioning the other cinematic powerhouse in this area, adjancent to ZAZ... Mel Brooks.
To this day when playing battlefield with my brother randomly firing into a mixed room of allies and enemies and only killing the enemies is known as a "chocolate moose"
Love this movie
Scott if I ever have occasion to say chocolate moose, I say it with that exaggerated French accent.
@@Popinjay74 and with a great laugh
My man!
Holy hell I haven't thought about Top Secret in forever. So glad you guys made a vid about it, such a fantastic movie! The cow costume gets meeeee every time.
When I was 15 my parents got this movie from a dollar store and my dad told me he remembered it being pretty funny. I had a lot of movies from the dollar store they had bought me that were absolutely awful so I didn't think much of it, then I finally watched it.
I laughed so hard I got a nosebleed and me and my brother sat down and watched the entire thing. I can't believe this movie is actually known, I thought it was some weird budget movie no one else knew about.
9:10 It's also brilliant comedic timing. "Your hog balls, sir." would not work without him lighting everything on fire.
“Don’t worry, Nick. Life is full of its little miseries. We must learn to deal with them in a mature and adult fashion.” (Sneezes into hands) Aaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! (Jumps out the window)
Weird Al song aren't only style parody, they're style perfectionism, since Devo themselves said Al did Devo better than they ever could with Dare To Be Stupid.
They may have said that but it's definitely not true. Devo has some amazing albums
@Tomas Knyvett Kurt mother-loving Cobain himself loved Weird Al's parodies and said that he knew that Nirvana had "made it" when "Smells like Nirvana" came out. Come on.
@Tomas Knyvett That's an absolute lie. His pancreas song is original music and it sounds EXACTLY like a Brian Wilson song. Weird Al is so much more than the silly parody guy. He's actually a very talented musician.
@Tomas Knyvett Someone clearly isn't a polka fan. Otherwise you'd know about his world renowned albums
You don't get a 50 year long career being a hack
i was living in a house with a lot of roommates and we had a movie night one night and I suggested Airplane. they switched it off after 15 minutes and it broke my heart
Naturally, you murdered them all for great justice, right?
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself nah they all died of heroin so it's fine
The same happened to me with Life of Brian :,(
@@scottmantooth8785 nah took a few months
@@scottmantooth8785 >implying they owned anything
Love this film. The fireplace pan away is one of my favourite gags
Oh man both the underwater fight and the backwards scene were impressive feats of film making!
Finally RLM starts reviewing some serious films!!!
FINALLY
STARTS
RLM
VERY COOL
Okay, this is breaking new grounds.
My favorite bit is when they start kissing at the swedish book shop and the camera moves to a fireplace, but then they roll in that shot and the camera has to move toanother fireplace.
My favorite is when they have that dramatic conversation while parachuting and it ends with them kissing and the camera pans to a fireplace parachuting behind them. Comedy gold.
If she said "I know a little Paraguayan." and a Parachuting Paraguayan Midget Chimney Sweep was waving and on fire....
Man don’t sleep on these Re:Views. This is the third movie these guys have helped me realize exists that I keep adding to my list! First a David Byrne movie and now a Zucker movie I didn’t know about!?
"He's just a little horse"
The telephone joke. Best visual joke in the history of cinema.
no joke, the underwater fight scene is a stunning achievement in moviemaking, and the best thing about it that it's simply done for a bunch of silly gags. fantastic. love the whole movie.
I’m glad Jay mentioned Weird Al, style parodies we’re my favorite songs of his. Top Secret is style parodies within great writing. The jokes are layered absurd on the surface, funny if you know the reference, and genius when you put it all together.
The reason I heard Police Squad was cancelled after so few episodes was because the network felt the humor required the viewer to think too much. The jokes were going over people's heads because they were expecting the usual dumb TV humor and here was something where you had to pay attention to get a lot of the gags. Yes...Police Squad was too intelligent for television.
I think it was the executive in charge of programming that was quoted saying something to the effect of "the audience had to actually watch it to enjoy it" as the reason for its cancellation :/
Not necessarily "too smart." The feeling was that people didn't pay full attention to a TV show the way they did a movie. As Police Squad was very deadpan, it didn't "signal" jokes the way, say, a laugh track would - hence the infamous exec line that people actually had to watch the show to enjoy it.
A true classic, never knew it was Val Kilmer's first film.
Police Squad was absolutely hilarious. I never seen my mother laugh so hard at the dentist scene "I'm not an animal, i'm a human being". and the red stain mouth / pistachio shell pile.
I thought for sure it was on for a full season. I guess I just watched each episode over and over.
My favorite was the banana chunk stuck to the tall guys face.
The hardest I've ever seen my dad laugh was the red pistachio shell scene. I actually thought he was going to have a heart attack or something he was laughing so hard.
I can't believe at 21:25 Jay said "it's so dense". I was waiting for him to go on to say "every single image has so many things going on." XD
I remember loving this movie when I was small. When I saw it many years later, I can't believe how much of the humor must have absolutely soared over my head.
One of the finest examples of cinematic genius. A fan since its premiere, and it is funny every time. "What...dog....poop?"
Greetings from Scotland...my father worked in a video shop in the 80s for a while,and brought this gem home one day, my 14 year old friend and my father and I were in tears from start to finish...the best Zucker and Zuker film bar none...yes airplane and naked gun are funny but it seems that they hit lightning in a bottle on this one...il take some of these gags to the grave with me...perfection
When I saw this in Australia I didnt know about the Pinto cars exploding from rear contact. I thought the gag was making fun of all films at that time that every car seemed to explode no matter what happens to them. Its one of the gags I remembered from the film.