Why hasn't anybody ever told me about this movie? I was sitting at my computer and I had the TV on when I just happen to put it on Movieplex and I saw some guys surfing with rifles and skeet shooting. Needless to say, I was intrigued. I have a feeling a lot of you guys on this board have seen this movie, but for those of you who haven't, it's a spoof of spy movies and Elvis Presley movies. The movie is directed by Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, the directors of "Airplane!". Anyways, it's a freaking gag a minute with this movie. The carrier pigeon with the helmet and goggles had me chuckling for a while, but the funniest bit so far was the Swedish book shop. When the shopkeep started talking I thought my tv was messing up because the sound was strange, but then it became obvious that the whole scene was filmed in reverse (there's an old joke that the Swedish language sounds like English spoken in reverse). The French Resistance in East Germany scene is hilarious. The best gag had to be where Val Kilmer breaks a window pane to shoot outside and it makes a perfect circle, then he ducks as the Germans fire back and gets up to find an X in another pane. This continues until he wins the impromptu game of tic tac toe. And the big black guy is freaking awesome, when he picks up that canon and fires it like a rifle. Anways, I hope some of you guys have seen this, otherwise this thread is freaking pointless.
Ha! That is the first thing I thought when Mr. Meowgi played that movie about 35 years ago at some party we were all at.
God: And, Kent, stop playing with yourself! Kent: It is God. Am I the only one who thought Jordan, the little funky ADD girl, was hot?
You mean Chocolate Mousse? Man, I could go on and on about this movie... I think my favorite part is during the "shootout scene" when they focus on everyone's feet chaotically running around, then all of they sudden they break out into a tap dance.
I love that movie, I love the fight seen with all the shooting and the Tic Tac Toe game, and that cow thing cracks me up also... "Little German??"
I love when the dude takes the spectacle away from his eye and his eye is actually giant or when the phone looks huge in the foreground and they pick it up and it is really this giant phone! That movie was hilarious.
Exactly, the same goes with the watch on his arm. Another great scene in my opinion was when Nick Rivers was imprisoned and makes this markes at the cell walls counting the time (days, months, years whatever) being jailed and then when his companiero arrives he is pissed that it took them 27 minutes to get here. ahhh,........great memories.
"I know a little German....he's sitting over there" LOL! Man "Top Secret" rules! What a great movie! I could watch this thing 24/7.
a tunnel with SPOONs... a cow DOING a man... ET's lighting chest on a woman when the man leaves... the ballerinas walking on the dudes' crotches... she knows a LITTLE German... BRILLIANT MOVIE! It's been hiding in the closet... it's coming out NOW...
I'd have sent her for a new haircut, but I know where you're coming from. Michelle Meyrink, the actress who played her, was one of the all-time great "that-chick-in-that-movie" of the '80's. She played Diane Lane's friend in "The Outsiders", Deborah Foreman and E.G. Daily's friend in "Valley Girl" and Anthony Edwards girlfriend in "Revenge of the Nerds". And speaking of Deborah Foreman (also in "Real Genius"), whatever happened to her? I figured she'd get all kinds of work after "Valley Girl".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286033/ Looks like she peaked in '85 and'86 with 'My Chauffeur', 'April Fools Day', and 'Real Genius' and faded into obscurity.
Great movie. I liked the small things: the closeup of the ringing telephone, and when the guy picks it up, it's a giant telephone. When Kilmer is crawling, he looks up and see's German boots. But when he looks up further, there's nobody in the boots. They show a guy directing the German cars to pursue, but when they pan left, the german cars are all driving around in a circle. There's a bazillion little things liket that that really add up to a great movie. -- droxford
Funny, I was watching April Fool's Day last night and wondered the same thing. This is what I found: http://www.deborahforeman.net/ (completely and utterly work safe) She's a Houston girl too.
Just like the kid in the movie, I doubt I could go with her watching. But, she could knit me a sweater!
