Part of Midnight Movies
The late, great Val Kilmer made his motion picture debut as Nick Rivers — pop star, sexual live wire and inadvertent secret agent in this daffy turn from the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team. Making their proper AIRPLANE! follow-up with this fusion of Elvis movies and spy epics, this is a testament to Z-A-Z at the top of their game. Val Kilmer breaks onto the scene like a supernova in this round-the-world adventure with lots of laughs, musical numbers and some conceptual humor unequalled over the past four decades and change. With Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing and Michael Gough.
“Abrahams-Zucker-Zucker scatter the jokes the way farmers scatter corn around a chicken house. They're shameless.”—Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner
“Get me in the right mood, and I can laugh all over the map. That’s why I liked TOP SECRET! This movie will cheerfully go for a laugh wherever one is even remotely likely to be found.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times