list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Spy Hard on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Spy_Hard/93541/default.aspx Title: Spy Hard
Year: 1996
Director: Rick Friedberg
Plot: The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret agent WD-40, called out of retirement to stop the world-conquering plans of his old nemesis, General Rancor (Andy Griffith), an armless madman determined to avenge himself upon Steele (who is responsible for Rancor's lack of appendages). With the help of Russian agent Veronique Ukrinsky (Nicolette Sheridan), Steele prepares to battle Rancor at his tropical island lair, where the daughter of Steele's long-ago love is being held captive. Along the way, such films as True Lies (1994), Speed (1994), Jurassic Park (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) are spoofed. Director Richard Friedberg had previously directed Nielsen in a series of automobile rental commercials and goofy "how-to" golf videos. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:56:24 GMTSpy Hard1996Rick FriedbergThe first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of <a href="/players/P___118047/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jerry Zucker</a>, <a href="/players/P___118048/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>David Zucker</a>, and <a href="/players/P____78951/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jim Abrahams</a>, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star <a href="/players/P____52664/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Leslie Nielsen</a> suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret agent WD-40, called out of retirement to stop the world-conquering plans of his old nemesis, General Rancor (<a href="/players/P____28827/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Andy Griffith</a>), an armless madman determined to avenge himself upon Steele (who is responsible for Rancor's lack of appendages). With the help of Russian agent Veronique Ukrinsky (Nicolette Sheridan), Steele prepares to battle Rancor at his tropical island lair, where the daughter of Steele's long-ago love is being held captive. Along the way, such films as <a href=/films/89499/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>True Lies</a> (1994), <a href=/films/89498/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Speed</a> (1994), <a href=/films/18496/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Jurassic Park</a> (1993), <a href=/films/89494/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Pulp Fiction</a> (1994), and <a href=/films/4867/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</a> (1969) are spoofed. Director Richard Friedberg had previously directed Nielsen in a series of automobile rental commercials and goofy "how-to" golf videos. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide10Taggedy Taggged (6-10)4312http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t03056nichy.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Spy_Hard/93541/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/the_mow/archive/2009/5/1/41965.aspx Post By: The_MOW
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Body: "Agent Dick Steele" (Leslie Neilsen), codename: "WD-40," comes out of retirement when the daughter of his late partner "Victoria Dahl" (Stephanie Romanov, who also plays her daughter "Barbara Dahl") is kidnapped by his archenemy "Genral Rancor" (TV legend Andy Griffith), whom he assumed was killed when his heilocopter exploded on his last assignment, which also saw the death of "Victoria." "Rancor" is again planning to take over the world, and "Steele" is the only one who can stop him. Just like any of Neilsen's movies, starting with the "Naked Gun" series, there are lots of sight gags. Sadly, in my opinion, the majority of them will give you a really good chuckle. There are a few gags and verbal jokes which will make you laugh out loud. There are also many scenes which parody some well known scenes in some movies that came out up to the point of this film's release. Watching Neilsen in this film is one of the best parts of the movie. It is amazing that he is able to keep a straight face with all the gags that are going on around him the majority of the time. Griffith is good in the role that is so different from the types of roles he is known and loved for. However, he isn't used enough in the film to really expand on the character. However, like Neilsen, he plays his character straight and is enjoyable. The rest of the cast does a fair to decent job with what they are given. It's too bad that they aren't used to their full potential. Possibly the worst part of the movie is that the jokes seemingly don't stop. You have to keep your eye on the screen to make sure you don't miss a joke. At least the "Airplane" movies gave you a break in the comedy once in awhile. "Spy Hard" would probably be good to view on cable, or a solid second choice rental.
]]>Fri, 01 May 2009 23:24:32 GMTThe_MOWThe_MOW Blog5/1/2009 7:24:32 PM"Agent Dick Steele" (Leslie Neilsen), codename: "WD-40," comes out of retirement when the daughter of his late partner "Victoria Dahl" (Stephanie Romanov, who also plays her daughter "Barbara Dahl") is kidnapped by his archenemy "Genral Rancor" (TV legend Andy Griffith), whom he assumed was killed when his heilocopter exploded on his last assignment, which also saw the death of "Victoria." "Rancor" is again planning to take over the world, and "Steele" is the only one who can stop him. Just like any of Neilsen's movies, starting with the "Naked Gun" series, there are lots of sight gags. Sadly, in my opinion, the majority of them will give you a really good chuckle. There are a few gags and verbal jokes which will make you laugh out loud. There are also many scenes which parody some well known scenes in some movies that came out up to the point of this film's release. Watching Neilsen in this film is one of the best parts of the movie. It is amazing that he is able to keep a straight face with all the gags that are going on around him the majority of the time. Griffith is good in the role that is so different from the types of roles he is known and loved for. However, he isn't used enough in the film to really expand on the character. However, like Neilsen, he plays his character straight and is enjoyable. The rest of the cast does a fair to decent job with what they are given. It's too bad that they aren't used to their full potential. Possibly the worst part of the movie is that the jokes seemingly don't stop. You have to keep your eye on the screen to make sure you don't miss a joke. At least the "Airplane" movies gave you a break in the comedy once in awhile. "Spy Hard" would probably be good to view on cable, or a solid second choice rental. http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_December_8_Good_Old_Fashioned/625/38217/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: I thought Spy Hard was pretty funny. Pretty good James Bond title sequence parody by Weird Al at the beginning. Anyone ever seen The President's Analyst. It's got some spys in it.
]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:34:05 GMTRisseladaWeekly Theme12/10/2008 6:34:05 PMI thought Spy Hard was pretty funny. Pretty good James Bond title sequence parody by Weird Al at the beginning. Anyone ever seen The President's Analyst. It's got some spys in it. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/3/36913.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 11/3/2008 5:00:53 PM
Body: A man was arrested in London last week for imitating James Bond. He wasn’t going around and ordering vodka martinis though, he had numerous fake IDs, replica guns, and even a personalized wallet styled after From Russia With Love. That’s dedication right there. We’ve had James Bond imitators in the movies for more than 40 years, but sadly none of them have ever been arrested. Although thankfully, a few of them have been entertaining. Check out the James Bond knockoffs in the list below, as we ramp up towards Quantum of Solace. Our Man Flint The United States didn’t have a dashing and cool super-spy hero like Britain’s James Bond, so in 1964 James Coburn stepped into the role of Derek Flint. Flint was an ex-spy for Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage… I kid you not) who was lured out of retirement and forced to battle three mad scientists who wanted to control the world’s weather. At one point, he meets up with an agent 0008, who looks and dresses like Sean Connery. The movie spawned a sequel, In Like Flint, and later helped inspire Austin Powers. The Matt Helm Movies Between 1966 and 1969 Dean Martin starred as Matt Helm in The Silencers, Murderers’ Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew. He was a wisecracking super-spy who often found himself in comedic situations. Although the books these movies were based on were fairly serious, the producers decided not to try and compete with James Bond and made these a lot lighter. These movies were also cited as direct inspirations for Austin Powers, and later for the 1970s James Bond films, which often copied the set pieces from the Helm films. Dreamworks currently holds the rights to the Matt Helm series, and is apparently working on a new adaptation. Casino Royale Long before Daniel Craig stepped into the tuxedo as James Bond, there was an original James Bond spoof of Casino Royale in 1967. Produced as a comedy by Columbia Pictures, this movie features six different James Bonds in an effort to throw off his enemies, and is most famous because Peter Sellers (as Jimmy Bond) walked off the set and didn’t return to finish his role. Although most of this was blamed on uneasy feelings between Orson Welles and Sellers, the movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers portrays it as Sellers trying to play the role seriously, and walking off when people wanted him to play it slapstick. OK Connery This actually happened. Italian producers hoping to cash in on the spy craze of the 1960s wrote this James Bond parody where James Bond isn’t available, so they use his kid brother. What’s even more bizarre is that they used Sean Connery’s actual brother Neil in this film, and his character is named Connery, although his lines were all dubbed by an American actor. Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee reprise their roles as Moneypenny and M in this movie, it was released in the U.S. as Operation Kid Brother, and was later razzed on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007. Truly bizarre. Spy Hard This Leslie Nielsen movie tried to ride in on the Naked Gun coattails, but just showed us a fairly tired and overused character. Nielsen played Agent Dick Steele (ouch), and would go on to play the same bumbling character with different names in other movies, but this one is especially bad. You know it’s a bad sign when Mr. T, Hulk Hogan and Pat Morita are your “guest stars.” The best thing about this movie is the James Bond-esque opening title sequence from Weird Al Yankovic. Which also belabors the point about guest stars. Johnny English Most people know Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, and they either love him or loathe him. I fall in the former camp, which is probably why I enjoyed this parody of the Bond films so much. The character was actually based on another Atkinson role, Richard Latham from the Barclaycard ads in the UK. He works for MI6 and is actually a bumbling spy wannabe who constantly makes mistakes. Many of the gags from the commercials made it into the movie, and last year Atkinson said on British TV that a sequel is in the works. Austin Powers Easily the most famous parodies of James Bond, the Austin Powers franchise is three films long, and during junkets for The Love Guru earlier this year Mike Myers said that he has an idea for a new Powers movie, so chances are you’ll see the crushed velvet suit and bad teeth once again. Myers has said that his inspirations included Our Man Flint, the Matt Helm movies, Vincent Price’s movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Michael Caine in The Ipcress FIle, and plenty of others. While it’s obviosuly an amalgam of many roles, the James Bond influence is the strongest throughout all of these films, as evidenced by the subsequent titles The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Goldmember. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:00:53 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/3/2008 5:00:53 PMA man was arrested in London last week for imitating James Bond. He wasn’t going around and ordering vodka martinis though, he had numerous fake IDs, replica guns, and even a personalized wallet styled after From Russia With Love. That’s dedication right there. We’ve had James Bond imitators in the movies for more than 40 years, but sadly none of them have ever been arrested. Although thankfully, a few of them have been entertaining. Check out the James Bond knockoffs in the list below, as we ramp up towards Quantum of Solace. Our Man Flint The United States didn’t have a dashing and cool super-spy hero like Britain’s James Bond, so in 1964 James Coburn stepped into the role of Derek Flint. Flint was an ex-spy for Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage… I kid you not) who was lured out of retirement and forced to battle three mad scientists who wanted to control the world’s weather. At one point, he meets up with an agent 0008, who looks and dresses like Sean Connery. The movie spawned a sequel, In Like Flint, and later helped inspire Austin Powers. The Matt Helm Movies Between 1966 and 1969 Dean Martin starred as Matt Helm in The Silencers, Murderers’ Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew. He was a wisecracking super-spy who often found himself in comedic situations. Although the books these movies were based on were fairly serious, the producers decided not to try and compete with James Bond and made these a lot lighter. These movies were also cited as direct inspirations for Austin Powers, and later for the 1970s James Bond films, which often copied the set pieces from the Helm films. Dreamworks currently holds the rights to the Matt Helm series, and is apparently working on a new adaptation. Casino Royale Long before Daniel Craig stepped into the tuxedo as James Bond, there was an original James Bond spoof of Casino Royale in 1967. Produced as a comedy by Columbia Pictures, this movie features six different James Bonds in an effort to throw off his enemies, and is most famous because Peter Sellers (as Jimmy Bond) walked off the set and didn’t return to finish his role. Although most of this was blamed on uneasy feelings between Orson Welles and Sellers, the movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers portrays it as Sellers trying to play the role seriously, and walking off when people wanted him to play it slapstick. OK Connery This actually happened. Italian producers hoping to cash in on the spy craze of the 1960s wrote this James Bond parody where James Bond isn’t available, so they use his kid brother. What’s even more bizarre is that they used Sean Connery’s actual brother Neil in this film, and his character is named Connery, although his lines were all dubbed by an American actor. Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee reprise their roles as Moneypenny and M in this movie, it was released in the U.S. as Operation Kid Brother, and was later razzed on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007. Truly bizarre. Spy Hard This Leslie Nielsen movie tried to ride in on the Naked Gun coattails, but just showed us a fairly tired and overused character. Nielsen played Agent Dick Steele (ouch), and would go on to play the same bumbling character with different names in other movies, but this one is especially bad. You know it’s a bad sign when Mr. T, Hulk Hogan and Pat Morita are your “guest stars.” The best thing about this movie is the James Bond-esque opening title sequence from Weird Al Yankovic. Which also belabors the point about guest stars. Johnny English Most people know Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, and they either love him or loathe him. I fall in the former camp, which is probably why I enjoyed this parody of the Bond films so much. The character was actually based on another Atkinson role, Richard Latham from the Barclaycard ads in the UK. He works for MI6 and is actually a bumbling spy wannabe who constantly makes mistakes. Many of the gags from the commercials made it into the movie, and last year Atkinson said on British TV that a sequel is in the works. Austin Powers Easily the most famous parodies of James Bond, the Austin Powers franchise is three films long, and during junkets for The Love Guru earlier this year Mike Myers said that he has an idea for a new Powers movie, so chances are you’ll see the crushed velvet suit and bad teeth once again. Myers has said that his inspirations included Our Man Flint, the Matt Helm movies, Vincent Price’s movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Michael Caine in The Ipcress FIle, and plenty of others. While it’s obviosuly an amalgam of many roles, the James Bond influence is the strongest throughout all of these films, as evidenced by the subsequent titles The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Goldmember. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/16/31288.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: The best time for a Get Smart movie would have been the late ’60s, when the original television series was still on the air. In fact, there was a theatrical Get Smart film in the works during the run of the show, but it was canceled when the theatrical release of Munster, Go Home! bombed at the box office. Many years later, in 1980, a Get Smart feature titled The Nude Bomb was released to theaters, but it also performed poorly. Now we’re getting a remake version starring Steve Carell in the role that was so iconically defined by the late Don Adams. Will it do the show justice? Reportedly the budget was $80 million, a significant amount of which was probably put towards pointless effects. But the best thing Warner Bros. could have done with that money is to give a large amount to series creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, who probably even today could churn out a better script than Failure to Launch scribes Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember. Despite its lack of original Get Smart talent, though, it could still be marginally funny. Yet the real problem is that it may be too outdated and obsolete for audiences to care. In the four decades since the show went off the air, there has been plenty of similar-themed movies, from spy spoofs to films with bumbling heroes. The following ten titles are the best evidence of why this new Get Smart movie is completely unnecessary: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - It’s interesting that Get Smart is going up against a Mike Myers movie this weekend, because in a way it’s also going up against Myers’ Austin Powers movies, as well. Sure, spy parodies have been around in spades since around the time of the first James Bond movie, but nothing has been as popular as this series, which of course includes the much bigger-grossing sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember. Inspector Gadget - The original animated series was based on Get Smart and even featured the voice of Don Adams. Also like Get Smart, it was remade into a feature film with a different cast. However, it did find room to employ both Adams (as the voice of the dog, Brain) and Andy Dick (who had played Maxwell Smart’s son in a 1990s Get Smart series). Regardless, it was still a failure, both in terms of its box office gross and the way it ruined our childhood memory of the beloved cartoon. Perhaps if the Get Smart movie is good enough, then it could make up for Inspector Gadget (and its sequel), but it would have to be really, really good. The Pink Panther - You might say that Get Smart came about as a response to both the Bond films and the original Pink Panther movies, which featured a bumbling police inspector instead of a bumbling spy. The recent remake of The Pink Panther already showed us that some characters should really be forever remembered by their most iconic portrayer. In this case Steve Martin was nothing compared to Peter Sellers, while in the case of Get Smart, Steve Carell is only muddying the memory of Don Adams. Even if he does a good job, he’s just not the real Maxwell Smart. He should just be in another lame generic spy spoof instead. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy - Want to see Steve Carell act clueless? Watch Anchorman again, because he can’t top his performance as Brick Tamland. “I love lamp.” The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - The show Police Squad was in a way like Get Smart, only with a clueless detective rather than a clueless spy (I guess it could be seen as more like The Pink Panther then?). Fortunately that series only took a few years to spin-off a feature film, and thanks to the genius of Jim Abrahams and the Zucker Bros., who are almost equal in spoofing ability to Mel Brooks, it is funnier than any single episode or film of Get Smart can be without Brooks’ involvement. Spy Hard - Leslie Nielsen starred as the bumbling detective in the Naked Gun movies and then later played a bumbling spy in this spoof. The result: if Nielsen hadn’t already supplanted the Maxwell Smart character earlier, he did so here, even if really, really poorly. The Man Who Knew Too Little - More clueless spy stuff, this one an underrated movie starring Bill Murray. It actually made less money than The Nude Bomb (even without an inflation adjustment), but I enjoyed it a lot, probably more than I’ll enjoy Get Smart. Johnny English - Yep, I’m still just listing the other recent spy spoofs. But, really, there’s a point. When even Rowan Atkinson has done the bumbling spy bit, it’s time to hang up on the idea. I Spy - Did I already point out that #s 6-10 are more spy comedies? And there’s a lot that I’m not even including! This one is significant because it’s also based on a hit TV series. And it was a huge bomb. Spies Like Us - The thing I like best about the original Get Smart, as well as a number of the films on this list, is that the incompetent hero isn’t really aware of how incompetent he really is. The best movie to utilize this premise, though, has to be Spies Like Us. But that movie came out toward the end of the Cold War, when spy stuff was seeming ridiculously outdated. Comparatively, Get Smart arrives post 9/11, when the fact that American intelligence is incompetent is not so funny anymore. I think that now audiences would much prefer to see more serious spy films, like the Bond reboot Casino Royale (note the significance of this film being kind of a remake of a Bond parody) and the Bourne Identity franchise. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:01:14 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com6/16/2008 5:01:14 PMThe best time for a Get Smart movie would have been the late ’60s, when the original television series was still on the air. In fact, there was a theatrical Get Smart film in the works during the run of the show, but it was canceled when the theatrical release of Munster, Go Home! bombed at the box office. Many years later, in 1980, a Get Smart feature titled The Nude Bomb was released to theaters, but it also performed poorly. Now we’re getting a remake version starring Steve Carell in the role that was so iconically defined by the late Don Adams. Will it do the show justice? Reportedly the budget was $80 million, a significant amount of which was probably put towards pointless effects. But the best thing Warner Bros. could have done with that money is to give a large amount to series creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, who probably even today could churn out a better script than Failure to Launch scribes Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember. Despite its lack of original Get Smart talent, though, it could still be marginally funny. Yet the real problem is that it may be too outdated and obsolete for audiences to care. In the four decades since the show went off the air, there has been plenty of similar-themed movies, from spy spoofs to films with bumbling heroes. The following ten titles are the best evidence of why this new Get Smart movie is completely unnecessary: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - It’s interesting that Get Smart is going up against a Mike Myers movie this weekend, because in a way it’s also going up against Myers’ Austin Powers movies, as well. Sure, spy parodies have been around in spades since around the time of the first James Bond movie, but nothing has been as popular as this series, which of course includes the much bigger-grossing sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember. Inspector Gadget - The original animated series was based on Get Smart and even featured the voice of Don Adams. Also like Get Smart, it was remade into a feature film with a different cast. However, it did find room to employ both Adams (as the voice of the dog, Brain) and Andy Dick (who had played Maxwell Smart’s son in a 1990s Get Smart series). Regardless, it was still a failure, both in terms of its box office gross and the way it ruined our childhood memory of the beloved cartoon. Perhaps if the Get Smart movie is good enough, then it could make up for Inspector Gadget (and its sequel), but it would have to be really, really good. The Pink Panther - You might say that Get Smart came about as a response to both the Bond films and the original Pink Panther movies, which featured a bumbling police inspector instead of a bumbling spy. The recent remake of The Pink Panther already showed us that some characters should really be forever remembered by their most iconic portrayer. In this case Steve Martin was nothing compared to Peter Sellers, while in the case of Get Smart, Steve Carell is only muddying the memory of Don Adams. Even if he does a good job, he’s just not the real Maxwell Smart. He should just be in another lame generic spy spoof instead. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy - Want to see Steve Carell act clueless? Watch Anchorman again, because he can’t top his performance as Brick Tamland. “I love lamp.” The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - The show Police Squad was in a way like Get Smart, only with a clueless detective rather than a clueless spy (I guess it could be seen as more like The Pink Panther then?). Fortunately that series only took a few years to spin-off a feature film, and thanks to the genius of Jim Abrahams and the Zucker Bros., who are almost equal in spoofing ability to Mel Brooks, it is funnier than any single episode or film of Get Smart can be without Brooks’ involvement. Spy Hard - Leslie Nielsen starred as the bumbling detective in the Naked Gun movies and then later played a bumbling spy in this spoof. The result: if Nielsen hadn’t already supplanted the Maxwell Smart character earlier, he did so here, even if really, really poorly. The Man Who Knew Too Little - More clueless spy stuff, this one an underrated movie starring Bill Murray. It actually made less money than The Nude Bomb (even without an inflation adjustment), but I enjoyed it a lot, probably more than I’ll enjoy Get Smart. Johnny English - Yep, I’m still just listing the other recent spy spoofs. But, really, there’s a point. When even Rowan Atkinson has done the bumbling spy bit, it’s time to hang up on the idea. I Spy - Did I already point out that #s 6-10 are more spy comedies? And there’s a lot that I’m not even including! This one is significant because it’s also based on a hit TV series. And it was a huge bomb. Spies Like Us - The thing I like best about the original Get Smart, as well as a number of the films on this list, is that the incompetent hero isn’t really aware of how incompetent he really is. The best movie to utilize this premise, though, has to be Spies Like Us. But that movie came out toward the end of the Cold War, when spy stuff was seeming ridiculously outdated. Comparatively, Get Smart arrives post 9/11, when the fact that American intelligence is incompetent is not so funny anymore. I think that now audiences would much prefer to see more serious spy films, like the Bond reboot Casino Royale (note the significance of this film being kind of a remake of a Bond parody) and the Bourne Identity franchise. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/comedy/MemberTagFilms.aspxcomedy
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