After watching it again, I realized that if you are under 50, many of the cultural references and movies may be incomprehensible gags: The Blue Lagoon, exploding Pintos, Casablanca, all World War Ii movies, the East German Women's Olympic Team (which were fiercely hormonal abused men, or severely roided up women).
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Top Secret!
Val Kilmer passed. His debut film, Top Secret! remains a reminder of what a skilled comic actor he was, and what skilled filmmakers Abraham's, Zucker, ans Abraham's were. The opening sequence with the song Skeet Surfin' is so utterly unexpected.
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And another running gag from back in those days was the sequence of scores for ice-skating or water dancing, 9.2, 9.3, 9.3, 9.1, 9.0, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0, and a 5.0 from the Russian Judge.
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