When one insists on taking the back end, the other throws it at him and says 'Fine! Be an asshole!' If you think that's funny, you'll probably find something to enjoy in this curious little film.
My favourite of the many, many gags is the moment when two characters argue over who will take the back end of a cow disguise. But very few people come to a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy looking for coherent plot and 'Top Secret!' is more than carried by its relentless flow of visual and verbal jokes that veer from corny to smutty, sweet to bad taste and silly to surprisingly clever.
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They had ideas for scenes and gags and then just worked the plot around it, creating a structurally weak film that seems less sure of its targets that the Disaster movie spoofing of 'Airplane!'. The directors admitted themselves that 'Top Secret!' was a nightmare to write and a bit of a patchwork job. Sticking very much to the quick-fire joke style, they put together 'Top Secret!', a funny but loosely held-together spoof of spy movies and Elvis Presley musicals. Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the trio of directors who had such a big hit with 'Airplane!' found themselves struggling to follow it up. When Marshall, trapped in Charlie's body, is forced to return to live with his ex-wife, he comments "This is the woman I couldn't live with as a husband and now I'm going to be her son. Reinhold and Savage are very good at playing each other's parts and the script, though silly and occasionally troubling (as with most of these 80s body swap comedies, the topic of sex eventually rears its head), is also genuinely witty at times. It follows the adventures of Marshall Seymour, a divorced Vice President of a department store and his son Charlie, who find themselves out of their depths when an idle wish that they could switch places comes true. Anstey, 'Vice Versa' was actually the fourth filmed adaptation of the source. Part of the barrage of body/age swap comedies that emerged in the 80s (including 'Big', 'Like Father, Like Son', '18 Again' and 'Dream a Little Dream'), 'Vice Versa' was one of the better efforts thanks to a fun script by British sitcom stalwarts Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and a cast of game 80s nearly-stars including the likably boyish Judge Reinhold, the precocious Fred Savage (of 'Wonder Years' fame) and the deliciously tongue-in-cheek Swoosie Kurtz.
Its structure, linking Bastian with the adventure he is reading rather than just using him as a framing device, is usual and effective and several scenes are genuinely brilliant, particularly the Swamp of Sadness sequence in which Atreyu battles unsuccessfully to save his beloved horse from drowning. 'The NeverEnding Story' is an ambitious adventure that doesn't entirely work but has enough magic and mystery to keep fantasy fans happy. Bastian follows Atreyu's adventures but it soon becomes clear that there is a link between the two of them. The book tells the tale of Atreyu and his quest to find a cure for the sick Empress of Fantasia, a land threatened by a mysterious force called The Nothing. Hiding from his tormentors in a bookshop, Bastian discovers a mysterious book which he takes to the attic of his school and begins reading. Now there's a stylistic jump! Based on the novel by Michael Ende (who subsequently disowned the film and tried to have his novel's title taken off it) 'The NeverEnding Story' follows Bastian, a boy who is frequently bullied at school. 'The NeverEnding Story', that popular 80s fantasy film, was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the same man who only years earlier made claustrophobic submarine epic 'Das Boot'. Here's an interesting fact to start us off.
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