Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 (Leslie Nielsen) is assigned by his director (Charles Durning), to stop the evil General Rancor (Andy Griffith) from destroying the world. WD-40 believed Rancor was dead and he teams up with the hot KGB agent Veronique Ukrinsky (Nicollette Sheridan) to find Rancor and save the world.The brainless "Spy Hard" is another spoof with Leslie Nielsen in the lead role in the same style of "Naked Gun". There are gags with James Bond films, "Speed" an "Home Alone". Unfortunately the style of Jim Abrahams and David Zucker is only reasonable and the film is not as funny as should be. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Duro de Espiar" ("Hard to See")
... View MoreYou always know with a Leslie Nielsen slapstick comedy, you'll be in titters. Here, is no exception. This comedy should be called, Spy dumb, as that's what Leslie Nielsen is here, another bumbling character, this time a spy. Having your code name named after a world wide silicon spray, doesn't give you much of a chance. The plot is Spy Dumb too. Bad Guy Andy Griffith, looking twice as ugly, yes, as if almost unrecognizable (he fooled me) needs a particular computer chip to put his dastardly deed, of sending a dangerous missile into space, so he control the world. Agent WD40 (Nielsen being Nielsen) teams up with smoking hot KGB agent, Veronique Ukrinsky (Sheridan, looking much different, beautox, and all) to rescue her father, the designer of the chip where he and his associates are being held hostage in Griffith's secret hideaway. Sheridan's not the only hot one in it, Nielsen, again a ladies man. Watch for a cameo from a Baywatch babe, bed sharing with Nielsen. The movie takes jabs or spoofs at some 94 flicks, while we almost have an unmistakable and moving Loaded Weapon moment. Even an old Michael Jackson incident can't evade this funny flick. I will admit the Speed take off, got all too ridiculous by it's near end, but this is a slapstick comedy, remember, which instigates continual laughter as only our bumbling idiot (who in public, you should avoid at all costs, to your health) delivers. Durning's cloak disguise's got all too ridiculous, to a point, some of them were really stupid. There are a lot of really good and inventively comedy moments. Griffith was really good, but the performance that really had me was that of Barry Bostwick as a warring agency colleague of Nielsen's. The opening theme and lyrics, ala: Bond films, with swimming silhouettes in the b.g. is much a funny start, positively ensuring what follows is gonna be just as funny and it is, yet not as funny as Nielsen's Naked Guns. Hats off here to Weird Al Yankovic, for that cute little opening track/swimming sequence performed by Weird Al "Like A Surgeon" Yankovic. There's quite a few cameos, some I didn't recognize.
... View MoreSpy Hard is a decent film with an enjoyable but in no way memorable or original,with a good comedic cast.The movie is nothing spectacular and it is easily forgetful,but Leslie Nielsen certainly makes it a lot better,the character was clearly written for him,he was very similar to Frank Drebin from the Naked Gun movies,but certainly didn't have dialogue that was as funny as Drebin has.My favourite part was definitely Weird Al Yankovic's song about the movie in the opening and ending credits,they were both the funniest and the most enjoyable.Its certainly nothing hilarious or an outstanding comedy,but if your a fan of Leslie Nielsen you myth want to watch it just for his sake.Secret agent Dick Steele (Leslie Nielsen) is given a mission to stop General Rancor (Andy Griffith) from destroying the world with a deadly missile.
... View MoreOften this movie just really feels like they gave Leslie Nielsen a rough outline of the plot and yelled "action". Nielsen is the usual Frank Drebin stereotype, but his deadpan delivery routine only works when the line's actually funny. That's rarely the case. The writers try to copy "Naked Gun", but can never really get it right and get stuck in their own dialogues. Here and there they manage to show some creativity, but for the most part they just resort to lame obvious jokes you see coming from miles away. You can feel them struggling, and that's never good. Even more bothersome than the amount of groan-inducing jokes is the boredom though. This movie has very few interesting things going on. Only some funny loose parodies like the ones on "Home Alone" and "Sister Act" made me keep watching. It's not the worst parody there is, it's not completely void of laughs, but it's still barely worth the rental fee.
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