November 13, 2014Back when Val Kilmer still made awesome movies, he made this hilarious spoof on spy movies about a rock and roll singer who unwittingly gets involved in a plot by the French to rescue a brilliant scientist from the Germans. Kilmer plays Nick Rivers, a 50's/60's style singer with a bunch of songs about skeet shooting. He gets hired to play an East German festival and accidentally meets and falls in love with a French woman who is part of a resistance against the German army. Together they team up with her old boyfriend and current leader of the resistance as well as a ragtag army of soldiers with names like Deja Vu, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, Chocolate Mousse, Avant Garde, Chevalier, Du Quois, Detente, and Montage. After being temporarily incarcerated and meeting a brilliant scientist (Michael Gough) behind bars, Rivers goes back to the group and finds out the scientist was his girlfriend's grandfather, so they form a plot to break back in and rescue him. This movie is hilarious, and if you enjoy films like 'Airplane', 'Mafia', 'Hot Shots', or 'Naked Gun', you will love it.
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