 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
||||
 |
UK SciFi / Horror and Fantasy |  |
|
|||||||||
 |
 |
|
||||||||||
 |
|
|||||||||||
 |
|
|||||||||||
Spy Hard [1996]
ReviewsOK, so it ain't The Naked Gun !!!! Review date: 2005-03-23 Rating: 8 out of 10 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 negligee and the worst Russian accent until the next one appears in the movie, via Michael Jackson's hair fire, Ray Charles driving a bus, bypass the Sister Act routine that misses the mark, continue to a Macauley Culkin type getting what was well overdue for Home Alone, through Jurassic Park to the ACME rocket at the end. Maybe the Naked Gun style movie was wearing thin about this time. The fart joke is old hat and certainly adds nothing. Maybe you just have to be in a certain state of mind to watch it and see what I see. Maybe the fact that I love B & C grade movies has a bearing on this. If you want a tight scripted, star studded multi million dollar Oscar nominated spy movie look elsewhere, if you want fun, grab a few beers and relax. Before you knock Nielsen over this look at what De Niro is up to these days, next stop EastEnders, Oy Mitchell, you looking at me !. I could have been a WestEnder. The other positive reviewers have remained anonymous, hell I've no shame. Spy Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard Review date: 2003-11-01 Rating: 10 out of 10 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 disguises who hides himself as a sofa, a wall, some curtains and even the floor! Some of the jokes are classic laughs, puns and parodies (the "raindrops keep falling on my head" bit springs to mind) and some are hilarious slapstick. If you like laughing, buy this film! Death of a genre Review date: 2000-11-28 Rating: 2 out of 10 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 produce a string of films in whatever is the hot genre of the moment. This almost always results in a few classic films and a lot of watered down and to quickly written and released tripe. Buy and treasure the classics (Such as "Airplane", "Space Balls" and "Top Secret") avoid the rest like the plague, I decisively consign "Spy Hard" to that latter group. Mr Knight's review below is correct it really is very, very bad. wretched, mediocre, feeble, woeful, oh so weak Review date: 2000-11-26 Rating: 2 out of 10 This is without a shadow of a doubt the most wretched film I have ever had the misfortune of watching. I implore you to give no credibility whatsoever to the other review, which I can only assume was written by a relative of Leslie Nielsen. I awarded it one star with massive reluctance - honestly, I could sit at this terminal for several months and still be unable to convey to you the hitherto unattainable levels of shamelessness that this film aspires, and succeeds, to reach. It is ASTONISHINGLY substandard. I would attempt to include some sort of silver lining to this darkest of clouds, but I fear that this would be like saying that Peter Sutcliffe `wasn't a bad lorry driver, actually'. Goodness gracious me - I need to go and have a bath to wipe away the stains of mediocrity that just reviewing this film has bestowed upon me. so very very very very bad. Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s): Marcia Gay Harden Charles Durning Nicollette Sheridan Leslie Nielsen Barry Bostwick Creators: Leslie Nielsen (Primary Contributor) Leslie Nielsen (Producer) Nicollette Sheridan (Primary Contributor) Rick Friedberg (Writer) Doug Draizin (Producer) Jeffrey Konvitz (Producer) Aaron Seltzer (Writer) Dick Chudnow (Writer) Jason Friedberg (Writer) Director(s): Recording label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm EAN: 5017188882644 Binding: DVD Number of items: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Release date: 2006-06-15 Number of discs: 1 Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audience rating: Parental Guidance Region code: 2 Running time: 78 minutes Theatrical release date: 1996-05-24 Language: English (Original Language) Language: French (Original Language) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Dutch (Subtitled) Language: Italian (Dubbed)
Tech info, cast and quotes/trivia when available. Exclusions may apply with free delivery. Price and availabiltity subject to change |
SearchNewsletter Similar Products
|
||
|
All Review Text © Copyright the Respective
Reviewer |
|||
![Spy Hard [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415HHH0MXFL._SL160_.jpg)
