Review – Top Secret!

All these years later I’m still amazed that a movie with so many explicit anal sex jokes could ever get a PG rating. On the other hand, most of the humor here is on an emotional level that cries out for the sixteen-and-under audience. A young Val Kilmer stars as a singer based on – if not directly parodying – Elvis in some of the worst of his movies. The overall plot is very much a creature of the 80s, but fortunately the story isn’t really the point. The gags that form the bulk of the screen time and entertainment value are as timeless as they are corny (though sometimes they do manage to be clever as well). Thus there’s a good time to be had here as long as one doesn’t expect too much. Mildly amusing