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OK, so it ain't The Naked Gun !!!! I am no relative of Leslie Nielsen but I love this movie, every time I watch it I see something new. Sure some gags are strained but one star reviews ! No whahay. Like all these Naked Gun style movies the background is littered with throwaway visual jokes. Right from the opening Maurice Binder style title sequence with mishapes floating over Weird Al Yankovic singing the catchy theme tune. You go via the matey slapping contest with Robert Guillaume in the golf club,to assassin Alexandra Paul in a red... more info
Spy Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard Judging from the reviews here, this really is a love-or-hate film isn't it? Well I love it. This has got to be the funniest film I've ever seen. There literally is a laugh a minute, make that half a minute! Even the storyline is taking the micky out of spy films: the retired agent is dragged back into the service to save the daughter of his dead ex-girlfriend, and save the world of course. The characters are brilliant, the evil genius is a psychotic, armless general; he director of the agency is a master of... more info
Death of a genre There comes a time when a weary old format needs to be taken outside to the yard and put out of its misery. The spoof genre seems to be one of them. From the classics e.g. "Airplane" there has been a gradual decline through the tame likes of "Repossessed" to the inevitable aged senility of this... "Spy Hard". A lack of subject material the cause? No, there is still good subject material for the spoof film genre. But what "Spy Hard" epitomises is the too often seen "Band Wagon" mentality of movie houses to... more info