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'''''Top Secret!''''' (1984) is the second feature-length comedy by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team (third, if one counts ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]''), and stars [[Val Kilmer]] in his first theatrical role, as [[The Hero|Nick Rivers]], an Elvis-like rock idol sent into [[Crapsack World|East Germany]] for a goodwill tour. Once there, he is swept into a spy plot by [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Hillary Flammond]], whose [[Mad Scientist|father]] is held captive by [[Those Wacky Nazis|the Communists]]. Hillary takes Nick to the [[La Résistance|French Resistance]] (yes, in East Germany), the charismatic leader of which is her former lover, and who seizes on the opportunity to use Nick's knowledge of the prison to break Dr. Flammond out.
That's the plot, but the movie is perhaps better appreciated for its farcical, even savage zaniness. It [[
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'''General:''' No. [[Even Evil Has Standards|We cannot risk violating the Geneva Convention]]. }}
* [[Depth Deception]]: Used as a visual gag.
* [[Destination Defenestration]]: A guy jumps out the window because ''he sneezed on his hand''. This leaves one of the guys puzzled, while another one just laughed.
* [[Dirty Communists]]
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: The soldier Chocolate Mousse throws off the top of a tower.
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* [[Salvage Pirates]]: Leads to gang rape. And an aversion to capitalism.
* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: To a fireplace. When the couple rolls into view in front of the fireplace, the camera pans again--to ''another'' fireplace. In some cuts, the camera eventually pans to a window with a view of a burning building. Further parodied some minutes later when a kiss between the two parachuting protagonists cuts to a fireplace hanging from another parachute.
* [[Sic Em]]: The rubber stamp of "[[Stand by Me|Chopper, sic balls!]]"
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]]: After the calf blowjob scene no less.
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{{quote|'''Hillary:''' I know. It all sounds like the plot of some bad movie.
(Awkward pause. Nick and Hillary [[Aside Glance|look toward the camera, embarrassed]].) }}
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: The blind Bruno and the moronic Klaus who only reads the ''New York
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Parodied hard. The bad guy owes the transit authority a new bridge.
* [[Travel Montage]]: A dotted line makes its way along a streetmap... and is subsquently eaten by Pac-Man.
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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
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