In between the disaster movie satire Airplane! in 1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked Gun in 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker put together a picture that's almost as funny as their better-known hits. Top Secret! sends up spy movies and cheesy teen rock & roll musicals.
In this fiendishly funny comedy from the creators of "Airplane!," loathesome millionaire Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is ruthless. How ruthless? When his shrill wife Barbara (Bette Midler) is nabbed by inept kidnappers (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater), Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam takes immediate action - he celebrates!
From the director of Animal House and the creators of Airplane! and The Naked Gun comes the original madcap, most out-of-control spoof of all time. The one that started it all! The Kentucky Fried Movie! Featuring a cast of more than a few but less than a lot, this insane collection of comedy skits include such now-famous sketches as the Kung-Fu parody, A Fistful Of Yen and the legendary Catholic High School Girls In Trouble. Enjoy the future of moviegoing with the "Feel-A-Rama" theater experience.
The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '70s cinema, from disco films to star-studded disaster epics--are more than worthy for send-up.
