Christopher Villiers, Dimitri Andreas, Eddie Tagoe

A rock-and-roll star touring Germany becomes embroiled in a nutty spy caper.

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PG, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Release Date: June 8, 1984

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DVD Release Date: July 16, 2002

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  • November 6, 2009
    An American rock and roll idol goes behind the iron curtain (while there was one!) for a culture fest but instead becomes involved in the resistance movement.

    Forget about the film itself, the very idea of an Elvis Presley movie being mixed with a French resistance film and prod...( read more)uced by the Airplane! crew is enough for laugh number one. Not only is this a bizarre world but seems to be playing games with time and history, the communist East Germany being portrayed as a kind of war time Nazi set-up!

    Kilmer does well with an impossible role to the point where you wonder if he didn't miss his vocation. He can sing and dance better than many real singers and he proved in The Doors that he is really a major musical force. Strangely it is rumoured that he didn't realise this was a satire!

    The stupidity of many Elvis movies and those Saturday morning children's reels (scientist and beautiful daughter) are taken to the cleaners and you have fantastic sight gags. The "falling guard" gag is one of the best sight gags in the history of movies - I challenge anyone not to laugh at it.

    I enjoy a stupid movie every now and then and admit I enjoyed this one. Clearly the authors know little about German history or European culture and the little they do know seems cribbed from watching bad B movies on the subject, but what the hell. This is too stupid for anyone to get seriously uptight about. "How silly can you get?" sings Kilmer at one point in the film: Maybe a little, but not that much!
  • July 9, 2009
    So I remember watching this 20 years ago and thinking this was one of the most hilarious flix ever made...but then time passes and I grew up...and it's still pretty funny LOL Not as hilarious as I remembered but still pretty funny. Val Kilmer was funny and looking pretty good in ...( read more)his pre- Top Gun days. I even remembered a lot of the jokes and still got a good kick out of it. All in all it was good going down memory lane and realizing this is actually a pretty timeless piece of movie history.
  • March 5, 2008
    Kilmer in a kind of funny movie
  • February 19, 2008
    If you like Zucker films then you'll think this is funny. I wanna go skeet surfin'! The saloon fight was done well.
  • July 23, 2007
    A great spoof film from the same team behind The Naked Gun and Airplane! films. Very funny!
  • November 13, 2009
    Classically hilarious. The way they use their jokes, the jokes are so incredibly lame, and yet the way they tell them, they have you slapping your thigh and rolling on the floor laughing.
  • November 12, 2009
    thank you val kilmer for making this your only comedy attempt. Absolutly horrible. Not funny. Lame. Airplane and the naked gun are a million times better. This hits no funny bones of mine.
  • October 21, 2009
    could have been better
  • October 14, 2009
    Hallá por mis dias de infancia vi esta pelicula que me mato de risa y nunca llegue a olvidar luego conoci a mas gente que tambien la habia visto y son los mejores amigos que pude encontrar con ellos nos reiamos de cada escena que recordabamos de esta pelicula extraordinariamente ...( read more)divertida
  • August 25, 2009
    hilarious from beginning to end

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