by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker, 1984.
Starring: Warren Clarke, Peter Cushing, Lucy Gutteridge, Tristram Jellinek, Jeremy Kemp, Gertan Klauber, Val Kilmer, Richard Mayes, Billy J. Mitchell, Omar Sharif, Christopher Villiers, and Major Wiley.
Rating: 9/10, 5/10.
There is nothing whatsoever that can be said about Top Secret!, or at least nothing I can think of. It’s hilarious.
OK, so I can say this. It somehow manages to parody both secret agent, Bond-type movies AND the Elvis movies, at the same time. It’s about Val Kilmer, who is a giant American rock star on his way to a cultural festival in East Germany. He gets mixed up with the resistance (which is French, of course), as well as a girl named Hilary (whose name means "She whose bosoms defy gravity," and who has some very interesting theories about what things are better left unsaid—and is played by Lucy Gutteridge). There is a scene in a bookstore, which I swear inspired the Red Room sequences in Twin Peaks. There is general hilarity, and a good time will be had by all who see it.