Reading reviews for Top Secret reminded of the fact that the most popular Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker film in most countries, or at least English-speaking ones, is clearly Airplane!, which always catches me a little off-guard because in Germany the Naked Gun trilogy and especially the first movie are much more ingrained into popular culture. I grew up watching these films while I didn't see Airplane! until my mid-20s.
What Top Secret does really well is being a mostly good movie not only…