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Sorry, this movie sucks

One of my all time favorites.

Blistering performances.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

This is one of a large handful of spoof films starring Leslie Nielson. This time, Nielson is spy Agent Dick Steele, WD-40 and is on a mission to save the world from General Rancor (Andy Griffith), who wants to destroy the world with a missile that can only be assessed with a special computer trip kept hidden by its inventor, Professor Ukrinsky (Elya Baskin), who wants to use the computer trip for more peaceful purposes. Along the way, Steele teams up with Ukrinsky's daughter, KGB agent Veronique Ukrinsky, Agent 3.14.As with any Nielson spoofs, there are non-stop laughs from start to finish that will have you horse-laughing and holding your stomaches. Slapstick humor is abundance here, from bumping into sliding glass doors to rolling down a street on an ambulance stretcher. However, the slapstick humor is done tastefully in a way that is doesn't get borderline annoying (i.e., forced comedy).The characters are calm and serious in their demeanor, especially Nielson, believing that they are really out on a classified mission, which gives this spoof the perfect balance of sensitivity and comedy. Actors in some other spoofs like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans know they are appearing in a spoof movie, so they forced themselves to act stupid and go overboard on the slapstick comedy. As a result, this gives the audience a tasteless film.It is fun to see this movie reference many other movies including Jurassic Park, Home Alone, True Lies, Sister Act and the James Bond films. The nuns using machine guns, 'Weird Al' Yankovic's James Bond-like opening song sequence and Dick Steele riding a Marines fighter jet are some of my favorite parts, as well as seeing Dick Steele's sidekick Kabul (John Ales) drive up in a different car in each of his different scenes.While entertaining, this movie is a little the short side, clocking at 81 minutes, which doesn't give much room for plot and character development and more laughs. Therefore, I felt the story was a little rushed-through. But, other than that, this is an enjoyable movie with some of Nielson's finest moments.Grade B

Yes, you do have to enjoy Leslie Nielson - and millions do - and I am one of them and whilst they're always funny and enjoyable, they do repeat quite obvious gags.He (& the production team) do those very well, of course and Nielson's sense of comic timing spot-on. However, this parody on the James Bond's and Spies of the cinematic world is seldom original. The funniest bits tend to be the gags away from those obviously 'Spy' genre and there's much sending up of films such as Home Alone, Speed, Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Sister Act, Jurassic Park, In the Line of Duty and finally a classic 007 fight-out.However, most of these are just too similar to the originals to be anything more than amusingly recognisable. I'm not saying that they're any better or worse than the Scary Movies send up's of horror flicks, but they could do better; mind you, I never thought I'd see the day Nielson takes the John Travolta role, grey hair in a ponytail, in the infamous dance with Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction.As always, the Silver haired charmer gets the most unlikely of gorgeous ladies and as always these are great value as their ridiculousness are always so well spoofed up. As Dick Steele, (Agent WD40) Nielsen is suitably inept and takes the praise that others create around him, whilst he wreaks havoc. There's a great cameo from Ray Charles as a blind bus driver in the Speed sketch and Charles Durning contributes a large slice of humour as 'The Director', Steele's boss.Leslie Nielsen, RIP - Spy Hard was not his finest film, not a bad one, but alas, not a very good one, which is down to the material, not the great man himself.

Often 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.

I saw this originally on cable and thought, given its limited aspirations, it wasn't that bad. Thirteen years later I still feel that way--25% is actually funny as hell, which is 24% more than most comedies of the last thirteen years. Originally I was most taken by Harden, then unknown. Who knew she'd win an Oscar a few years later? Anyway, the comedy in this film is hit and miss but sometimes very clever, such as a flashback to an encounter just seconds earlier. Sure, the pop culture references of '96 are quite dated now, and the whole film ends up as eminently disposable, but it >does< deliver some solid laughs.