One of the best comedy duo's ever!!! Chase & Aykroyd are perfect together & absolutely hilarious, love Chevy Chase & love Dan Aykroyd so much these guys are true comedy legends & it shows in this feelgood fun filled adventure as those 2 goofballs are sent on a spy mission & it's so much fun just so funny & the test scene & bootcamp training are absolutely hilarious comedy scenes!!! A cheer you up Happy fun comedy with 2 of the greats together having a great time & it shows on screen!!! Love this film & grew up watching it

A bit hit-and-miss but works, mostly.Two low-level government employees, Emmitt Fitz-Hume (played by Chevy Chase) and Austin Milbarge (Dan Aykroyd), are chosen for a top- secret CIA mission. They are unsuitable as CIA agents but are deliberately chosen for this reason, as their mission is a decoy one and they are expendable. After being fast-tracked through training they are parachuted into Pakistan where all manner of adventures await them.Quite funny at times, but also very silly at times. Plot is pretty basic and some of the sub-plots are plain stupid. However, for the most part, it works. The main reason for this is Chevy Chase. He gets some great lines and delivers them perfectly. Dan Aykroyd is fine as the straight man but it is Chevy Chase that makes the movie watchable.Another positive is the pace of the movie. It is quite frenetic, so even if a scene is a dead end, it is over quickly and we move onto the next scene. The pace helps to cover up the blemishes.Not a must-see, but there are worse ways to spend 100 or so minutes.

I first saw this movie in 2002, and I must say I was heavily disappointed. Chevy and Dan have been set up as spies, for the U.S. government but really are used as decoys. I found laughs scarce in this, and they we're mostly things I've seen in snippets when first released in 86. I found bits of it dragged. I almost wished I hadn't seen it, to be honest. Dan Aykroyd has a habit too, of doing a lot of films with Donna Dixon. What's up with that? What's up with this movie? Scarce laughs. It too takes parts of the films seriously as if almost veering into the path of 1982'S Hanky Panky. I was surprised to see James Daughton turn up in this as having seen him in that 82 sex comedy shocker, The Beach Girls, and was just an actor there for good looks, but he's legitimate, and give's quite a character performance, better than it's leads. But unlike our beach girls, let me tell ya, this film ain't no party, and is in dire need of laughs in a vast supply. Fans of Chase and Ackroyd, beware.

I first saw Spies Like Us when I was a kid, when Chevy Chase was my favourite actor. I must have seen it about fifty times since then and I am almost word-perfect on the script. However, I've never owned the DVD since Warner have never released it in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Thankfully it is currently available in HD on the PlayStation network.Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge (Chase and Aykroyd) are two lowly government workers who are suddenly promoted to the elite GLG-20 spy status after they are caught cheating on a test. What they don't know is that they are just decoys to draw heat away from the real spies and are promptly dumped straight into enemy territory.Chase and Aykroyd have great chemistry together and I'm surprised they didn't work together much after this (although they did hook up for The Couch Trip, Caddyshack 2 and Nothing But Trouble). There's loads of fun to had in watching them bumble from one zany situation from the next. And, as this is a Landis film, there are director cameos all over the place. Keep a lookout for Terry Gilliam, Martin Brest, Joel Coen, Sam Raimi etc.Despite the fanbase, Warner have never showed this film any respect or given special treatment of any kind when it comes to the home video market. As I already said, as of yet the only DVD available is the fullscreen version from 1998. Even the HD version I watched was from a very murky print and has terrible sound. If Warner make a Blu Ray from this master it's still not worth buying.Give it a rent unless a proper remaster is done. Which is unlikely.