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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Top Secret (1 tiny spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 20:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 20:41:56 1984
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bip.


	AIRPLANE: Big Joke: verbal misdirection gags
		(A Hospital? Doctor what is it?)
	TOP SECRET:  Big Joke: visual misdirection gags
		(Station pulls away from train)
	Big problem: most of them are in the commercial; you've already
		    seen them.
	
	Top Secret is not as funny as AIRPLANE!, it is also not as
	funny as THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE.  Strangest of all, it
	is technically not as good as KFM, which was a shoestring
	affair.
	Example: outdoor scene.  Quick cut to other scene.  Cut back
	to first scene.  Lighting is TOTALLY different.  oops.

	Good points:  THE MUSIC!! "Skeet surfing": proof that Brian
	Wilson really only wrote one song.  (I bet the "video" for
	this shows up on MTV or Fri. Night Videos).
	THE LEAD ACTOR!  The guy who played Nick Rivers (I think his
	name is Val Somebody).  Watch for this guy in other films.
	Does his own singing.

	Overall rating: 7.5 on a 12 scale.  Wait til it comes down
	in price.

				No cute signoff,

							-Glenn