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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: TOP SECRET (Some Spoilers)
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 20:23:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  4 20:23:50 1984
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Well, I had expected to see a much worse movie than I did... critics and
net-sayers alike seem to have panned this.  I think if you liked Airplane,
you'll enjoy this... I found it not as funny as its fore-runner, but much
better than the dismal Airplane II.  My few criticisms (avec spoilers)
follow... you may wish to stop here if you haven't seen the movie.













Generally I found three things annoying about TOP SECRET:

1) The rate of jokes was not as frentic as in Airplane... there should have
been four or five jokes going on at once.

2) They shouldn't have been so afraid to have the audiences miss a few
jokes... there were quite a few that were emphasized to the point where they
weren't funny anymore.  I particularly recall the "get this to New York by
Tuesday joke"... after the person is shot, he burns the envelope, which is
obviously a Publisher's Clearing House envelope.  But they then insist on a
close up to show you that it is just such an envelope.  This harkens back to
my first point.

3) The dance scenes were still a bit dull, and there was a GREAT deal more
bathroom humor here... I remember quite a bit more political humor in
AIRPLANE.

Best scene: The Pinto sequence (also the underwater fight scene).

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.

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