Editing Top Secret! (section)

===Critical reception===
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 77% based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "''Top Secret!'' finds the team of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker sending up everything from spy movies to Elvis musicals with reckless, loony abandon."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021699_top_secret?|title=Top Secret! (1984) |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=April 18, 2025}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film holds a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top Secret! Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/top-secret! |access-date=July 10, 2023 |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[Fandom, Inc.]]}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] rated it {{frac|3|1|2}} out of 4 stars and applauded the humor, noting that "to describe the plot would be an exercise in futility" and "This movie will cheerfully go for a laugh wherever one is even remotely likely to be found."<ref>{{cite web|author-link=Roger Ebert|last=Ebert |first=Roger|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/top-secret-1984 |title=Top Secret! |publisher=Ebert Digital LLC |work=RogerEbert.com |date=January 1, 1984 |access-date=March 16, 2015}}</ref> [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] considers this his all-time favorite movie.<ref>{{cite web |last=Eakin |first=Marah |date=July 18, 2014 |title="Weird Al" Yankovic answers our 11 Questions |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/weird-al-yankovic-answers-our-11-questions-206949 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209231325/http://www.avclub.com/article/weird-al-yankovic-answers-our-11-questions-206949 |archive-date=December 9, 2014 |access-date=March 16, 2015 |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |publisher=[[The Onion]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=June 26, 2018 |first=Erik |last=Abriss |title='Weird Al' Yankovic Explains Why ''Top Secret!'' Is the Funniest Film Ever Made |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/weird-al-yankovic-on-why-he-loves-the-movie-top-secret.html |website=Vulture}}</ref>