This was Val Kilmer first role. Also, while the songs we written for the movie, it's Kilmer who did his own singing and dancing. Really talented guy.

Another early Val Kilmer role was a film called Real Genius. I love it even more than Top Secret; it has an actual plot it takes seriously. But it's a comedy, and a very funny one at that.

Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holliday in "Tombstone" should have garnered an Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor".

After this movie came out, a buddy of mine showed up at a Halloween party with one of the greatest costumes ever - a ballet dancer from Top Secret!

I love all the anachronistic elements of this film. "Tutti Frutti" was a famous, classic song performed by Little Richard in 1957.

Who says you're inaudible? I would listen to you reading the phone book!

"You dropped your fake dog poo." "What fake dog poo?"

The Ford Pinto had a reputation for exploding when rear-ended. Thus the explosion in the field.

Wow! Almost nobody reacts to this hilarious movie! Thanks for giving it some needed attention. 17:04 That magnifying glass moment is a nod to Peter Cushing's role as Dr. Frankenstein in the Hammer Horror films, of which he did many with his close friend Christopher Lee. When Halloween comes around, Aria, please react to the Hammer Horror classics! 🙏 They deserve more attention from reactors!

You have the smoothest, calming voice I have heard. You are articulate and funny, whoever complained about your voice is trolling you. Social media is so toxic and negative at times. Don't change to please a few idiots.

This is a classic, on the same level as Airplane! and Naked Gun. I'm so glad you reacted to it, as not enough people know of it, as opposed to the movies I mentioned previously.

'Is this the potato farm?' 'Yes, I am Albert Potato.' Still funny after all these years.

I just love, love, LOVE watching you giggling to all this silliness... lol

I love that a real cow wearing Wellington boots was supposed to be two guys in a cow costume. 😂 And the cow 'smoking'.

Aria: "I've stopped questioning." Continues to question. Hahaha love it.

"Ballet is so beautiful." Seconds later...

Aria, the type of humor the Zucker Brothers were emulating was mostly started back with Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spoof of James Bond movies called "Get Smart." That 1960's TV comedy had these same kinds of visual jokes and gags.

I cannot believe it, finally someone found the hidden gem. all thumbs, fingers and toes up. this movie is criminally underrated. I am hyped.

This movie is funny in any context, but if you're old enough to recognize all the WWII/50's melodrama/surf movie/Elvis/spy adventure cliches, it's hilarious.

As always, a wonderful, charming reaction!

I love this movie! It's a mashup satire of spy/Cold War movies, war movies, rock n roll movies, and American culture.

I'm so happy you watched this, it's one of my favourite stupid movies, so creative. That gag where the guard falls off the wall and smashes into pieces never fails to get me. The gag where Nick reaches the boots and the camera follows him looking up expecting a guard, and it's just boots. The underwater fight scene! Such a unique movie, utterly ridiculous, but brilliantly so :D

Val Kilmer can sing. Check him out playing Jim Morrison in The Doors. It's great.

The backup singers were Elvis' backup singers.

"My uncle was born in America." "Oh, really?" "But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency." Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Val Kilmar. Director Cameos Fact: Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker appear as the German soldiers who show up at the door of the prop room to arrest Nick (Val Kilmer). Final Bow Fact: Peter Cushing, who began his screen career in the old Hollywood of the late 1930s, makes his final appearance in an American production. He made three more British films before passing in 1994. Music Enthusiast Fact: The songs that Val Kilmer sings in the film are actually performed by Val Kilmer himself and were featured on the film's soundtrack released in 1984 under Kilmer's character's name Nick Rivers. When Nick Rivers is in jail, a head shot of Cher can be clearly seen on the wall of the cell several times. Val Kilmer was dating Cher at the time. The Bookstore Scene Fact: The scene where Hillary (Lucy Gutteridge) and Nick (Val Kilmer) go into the Swedish bookstore was staged, shot, and then run backward for a "unique" sound. If you record the scene and play it backward, you will find all of the dialogue to be exactly what is shown in the subtitles except for the title of the book. "Europe On Five Quaaludes A Day" (which I can't confirm as real) is what Hillary asked for. A forward-playing version of the Swedish bookstore scene can be found on the DVD. The sight gag of Peter Cushing and the magnifying glass is a parody of a similar shot of Cushing from Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The prosthetic that Peter Cushing wore in the bookshop scene involved the making of a cast of his face to fit it to. This same cast was used 30 years later by ILM to build a CGI model of his face for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).

Hillary's flashback is a spoof on The Blue Lagoon. It was a huge hit at the time of its release, although the modern audience is not always aware of its existence.

11:52 "😄Why do you have it with you?" Because, in any properly written satire, the characters all live in a world of _absurdity,_ so pervasive, they don't even _see_ it.

You have the most Smoothest/Calmest Voice that I've ever heard. I had seen this Film many times and loved your reaction as usual. little Richard sang Tuttie Fruttie. Salton Sea is a great Val Kilmer Film.

Instant thumbs up for anyone reacting to or reviewing 'Top Secret'

The train station going away is my favorite comedy gag of all the times. I remember when I watched it at cinema, completely frozen and thinking "It's not real. I haven't seen it! " 🤣🤣🤣🤣

3:30 - Montgomery Ward was a popular mail order retail department store from most of the 20th century. If you were on their mailing list, you would get incessant catalogs, flyers, and endless mail correspondence from them, which is the insult Val Kilmer's character was implying.

Outstanding Aria !!! Awesome Reaction and sense of humor !!! Thank You !!!

Please don't change anything about the way you talk. Your soothing voice is 90% why I'm subscribed. If people are having trouble hearing you over the movie, consider simply lowering the movie volume.

Val Kilmer is a fantastic singer. he sang the entire sound track for the Doors movie he did.. part of the issue you had with this film is that so many of the jokes are very time period specific - a lot carry forward, but so many you would really have to know what was going on at the time it was made. glad you saw the humor in this film. Real Genius is another fantastic 80s Val Kilmer film.

The concept underlying "Top Secret" is brilliance. "Airplane" is genius & timeless. But "Top Secret" is creativity on the next level. It's a mashup of genres before anyone had even the notion of cross-breeding genres & tropes into one film. One part Screwball Comedy. But then start adding in the other ingredients; Cold War-Era Spy films, World War II Resistance dramas, and the final piece of absurdity, a parody of those God-awful Elvis Presley musical films (yeah, that was it's own genre back in the 60's believe it or not). And what you get when it comes out of the oven is a cake of the wonderfully absurd & unique. Few things can compare. And the best thing is you can show this to both the Normies & Hipsters and it still confuses them, LOL.

Val Kilmer, when he heard the movie was a cross between a war film and an elvis movie he turned up to his audition wearing an elvis costume!

Another one of the undersung joke was near the beginning when the Nazis say that Nick Rivers would be coming instead of Leonard Bernstein (with his obviously Jewish name).

Aria, I just wanted to let you know that your reaction was as funny as always! Your expression when the Germans told Nick about his friend being impaled on the large electrical device was priceless! Between that and your reactions to the... "cow sex scenes?"... Well, I think its safe to say that it took 2 hours just to get the smile off my face! 🤣 This movie is one of my all time favorite silly comedies, so I'm really glad that you enjoyed it! Can't wait to see what's up next!

The music used for the German anthem is the anthem of a local sport team in Wisconsin, where the writers/directors are from.

11:20 "Now the cow on the poster is not weird at all." And you had not even noticed the boots yet - perfect! While you did show the janitor, you didn't give us the prop room, which I think is even funnier as a continuation of the gag. The bit about the spy being crushed in the car is a direct reference to a scene in the James Bond film Goldfinger (a real classic). And the radio antenna extending was another perfect sight gag. Hillary's boobs glowing red was a spoof of E.T. - The Extraterrestrial, whose heart lit up. Another great reaction. I love your very animated responses and of course your soothing voice too. Great job!

🐴 Whoever did the closed captioning for this had a perplexing decision to make about one of the movie's most famous punchlines...Do I spell it "Horse" or "Hoarse"? ☺ Whenever anyone asks me what the plot of this movie is, my answer is always, "Plot?" 😆..."PLOT?" 🤣 To me, this is one of the two funniest plotless movies of the 1980s, the other one being "Monty Python's Meaning Of Life" (1983). 😁👍

The fact that Val had such a beautiful voice made him losing it to illness all the more tragic. For more of him singing on film - The Doors More Val to enjoy - Real Genius (comedy), Top Gun (action), Tombstone (western), The Saint (spy/action), and The Ghost And The Darkness (period piece based on true events)

The crazy effects and one liners add a lot! Like Airplane the jokes come out of nowhere. It tickles your funny bone l enjoyed this movie immensely. The best thing to do is to watch this movie with Airplane and others like it and binge watch!

"How do we know he's not Mel Torme?" 🎶[DUN-DUN-DUHHHHH...]🎵 ..."This is NOT Mel Torme!"

This movie is so much fun. I was nine or ten the first time I saw it so I didn't get a lot of the jokes, but as I got older they all made sense and I found it so much funnier. A great start to Val Kilmer's movie career.

24:02 "Oooh! What going on in the back?!" Deja Vu! I can't tell you how many times I've heard that from a woman...

Great reaction! I really appreciate that you do not act like the breaking of the fourth wall is the greatest thing ever! Ground breaking comedy! That is what every other reactor acts like when they see a fourth wall break. Refreshing to see your take on it. Which I agree with, which I am sure is why I like it. 😁

I love your evolution of expectations when you realized this is satirical. And I love ypur voice. Be you.

I have never had a problem hearing and understanding you, your voice is just fine.

After the heaviness of your Band of Brothers reaction, it's good to see you laugh. Really enjoyed your reaction to this.

Val Kilmer movies you should check out are: Tombstone, Real Genius, Top Gun 1 and 2, Heat , Ghost and the Darkness, The Saint, and Willow.

Val Kilmer's tour de force performance is in Tombstone. That movie has the most stacked cast you will ever see, definitely check it out.

When this movie was done, ZAZ never knew about blue lagoon. Concider that.

Tutti Fruiti is a real song and was originally sung by Little Richard back in the hay days of rock 'n Roll it was first released in 1957 and the island scene for Hillary is based on the movie "Blue Lagoon" which starred Brooke Shields. and Nick jumping the motorcycle over the barbed wire fences is a reference to the Movie "The great Escape" made 1963 and there it was Steve Mcqueen riding the bike also a great movie for you to watch some of it based on real history during world war II. And if you're impressed that Val Kilmer sang the songs you should also watch Olivier stone's "The Doors" 1990, its about the 60's band the Doors and Val Kilmer plays the Iconic Jim Morrison and he also sang all the songs there too.a bit more darker than this movie but a good watch non the less.

My cousins and I got our grandmother to take us to see this when I was 14 in theaters when it was brand new. I never laughed so hard in my life because not only was the movie hilarious, but the pissed off look on my grandmother's face, especially when the ballet scene happened was almost funnier than the movie and my cousins and I still laugh thinking about it. As far as being disrespectful, they weren't. Comedy, especially spoof comedy always gets a pass. They are not intentionally trying to hurt anyone and if a German filmmaker or any other nationality wanted to do a spoof of the USA and make fun of Americans, as long as it was made as a comedy, it's OK. My generation had a saying, "If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?" Now, a lot of younger people are way too serious and get offended too easily. Life is short, so relax, have fun and enjoy your life. Don't sweat the small stuff. Life is hard enough, so don't take away the few joys we get in life like laughing.

Your eyes show your reaction without words.

Val Kilmer is doing his own singing. He sings in Comanche Moon, and I recon The movie about Jim Morrison

East Germany didn't exist til after WWII, so it's a cold war movie. Tutti Frutti is a real song- Little Richard (1955).

There are a bunch of spoofs of other movies in this film. To name only two, Blue Lagoon starring Brooke Shields is a film about two kids stranded in a paradisaical island and growing up to be teenagers and later parents before leaving said paradise. The Great Escape is a movie about prisoners making a tunnel to escape. In it Steve McQueen on a motorcycle jumps a fence. Both are great movies to watch if you haven't yet. I really enjoy watching you laugh at the stunts of these comedies of my youth. Saw them all in the movies in the late 70s, early 80s. For silliness of a different brand, try the Woody Allen movies of the mid 70s. Love And Death is his great spoof on War And Peace.

Val Kilmer knew this was a comedy based on spies and Elvis movies. He showed up to his audition dressed as Elvis.

Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

"who's the singer, he's really good" that's val kilmer himself!! He's actually a really good singer! To get his role as jim morrison in biopic "the doors" he learned like half of their discography and sang in front of the members and they literally said something along the lines "I didn't know if I was listening to Jim Morrison himself or Val Kilmer" The soundtrack on spotify for top secret is also all val kilmer singing!

28:27 "But we recommend you be there at least 45 minutes before departure. _Especially_ at _this_ time of year." And you'll be traveling internationally, so have your _passport_ handy.

Actually, the cow on the poster makes perfect sense since they are nature's ninjas. Perfectly camouflaged and sneaky. Don't believe me? Look around you right now. See the cows? Exactly.😉

Val Kilmer is one of the greatest actor in my book. If you like his voice, then you have to watch "The Doors" it will blow your mind away. You have to watch both "Top Gun" movies, you will love to hate him. And you must watch "Tombstone", Doc Holiday will be your favorite character.

I guess Nicks' friend who used the Intruder device wasn't aware of that we use 230 Voltage in Europe not 120 Volt like in the US...hehe :)

Google the movie The Blue Lagoon (1980). Sidenote: I have never had any problem hearing you.

I loved the fourth wall break. "It's like some kind of bad movie!" ((both turn and look at the camera))

Airplane! was one of the most profitable comedies of all time but Top Secret! bombed hard at the box office. The filmmakers wrongfully assumed that Airplane! was a massive hit because of their jokes but failed to realize that the characters and the plot they borrowed from Zero Hour! held the movie together. Basically, they had a great collection of jokes but didn't know how to write a screenplay on their own, despite the help of a seasoned screenwriter. The plot is absurd in itself because they decided to spoof Elvis Presley's musicals and spy thrillers set during WW2. They thought they went a little too far and lost many spectators in the process. When they worked on The Naked Gun, they made sure they had a solid story and character's arc before writing the jokes. Top Secret! became a cult classic when it was released on VHS a few years later.

2:16 "What?" Yeah. 😄 Isn't this an obscure niche? People who like to combine surfing _and_ skeet shooting.

References that you missed: "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) "The Great Escape" (1963) "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) "Operation Crossbow" (1965) "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976) "Rawhide" (TV show) "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)

Never had an issue with your audio just keep uploading fire and you’ll be fine

When you repeated yourself saying, "I'll try to talk a little louder." it was the same volume as the first time you said it. 🤣

Great movie. One of the most funniest movies I know. Allot of the songs in the movie are spoof of Elvis and The Beach Boys songs. Fyi Totty Fruity is a real Elvis Song

"Tutti Frutti" is a rock and roll classic. It was sung by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the original - Little Richard (who co-wrote it in 1955). It may be among the songs with a highest number of recordings by various artists, and is probably in the repertoire of every Elvis impersonator.

You will have to watch this movie a number of time to see all the gags that are in there. It rips off spy movies to the max. The car that got a rear end ding was a Pinto, look up that car, to get the joke. Good react, stay well.

33:05 Yes ... and it is unfortunate that due to throat cancer he can not talk all now.

This is the film that I pester nearly every review channel to watch shy of the ones run by filmmakers. Just randomly came on Twitter last week even when discussion what the best comedy films of all time are and this the top shelf for me. Just pounding the audience with comedy gold. Then all those incredibly filmed scenes on top of it like the backward to foreword Potato Farm scene (still brilliant to this day) or the underwater Gunsmoke fight scene. It's just so good.

You might also like the film "Transylvania Twist", it's my favorite movie, because of its silliness.

With this movie, you must your eyes peeled and suspend reality.

the shop jingle was based on Elvis are you lonesome tonight

I haven’t seen this movie in decades. It’s now even sillier. The WW2 uniforms combined with the GDR / Cold War plot and this terrible German 🤪. Love your content and your reaction to the ballet scene was as always on point😂.

This movie is like " Naked Gun " - " Airplane " and Mel Brooks films.

Funniest movie ever, and a great reaction to it 👍👍

Early Val, Real Genius and Top Gun with this is the movies that made him famous. Sad he is in the condition he is in today.

good Val Kilmer movies: "Tombstone" (1993) "The Ghost and The Darkness" (1976) based on real events "Heat" (1995) "Top Gun" (1986)

If the mic track is clean enough, you can run the mic and movie tracks through separate compressors, or 2 series of compressors to gently, progressively squish the peaks, then adjust the gain on each compressor to mix. Your natural, authentic speech is perfect, so I hope this helps you adjust the room and processing chain to your comfort and save "performance mode" for your music,... which you found an hour to practice this month,... right? :) :P

The German language used in the movie is actually Yiddish. They actually say things unrelated to the plot, like "Today I ate a apple pie".

I don't use headphones or earbuds and I never have a problem hearing you.

From the same people who did Kentucky Fried Movie, Naked Gun, Airplane, and Ruthless People.

I was just posting you must watch this movie when this pooped up in my feed. Next try the Pink Panther movies 😊

Aria, here are more Val Kilmer films you ought to watch... Tombstone The Doors The Ghost and the Darkness

Ballet is so beautiful....and now they have ruined it for me. 😂😂😂😂

NIGEL!

There's a lot of humor that's anchored to much older pop culture, like Mel Torme and spy tropes and Western movies and others. Humor tends to be topical and some things are dated. Same thing with Airplane

In 1998, David Zucker made "BASEketball", which is a comedy sport movie. It is inspired by a real sport he invented with a few of his friends, which is a mix between basketball and baseball that you can play in your backyard. It doesn't directly spoof any movie but it pokes fun at the sport industry with the same kind of absurd humor. And it stars Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park.

Great reaction.

You trying to make literal sense of one of the greatest parody movies was hilarious.

This movie is awesome to watch while tripping on Robitussin.

I'm both surprised and sad that Skeet Surfing never caught on.