Spies Like Us
The story tells of strong comedy adventures. Two low-level government officials, Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Milbarg, were chosen on a highly classified CIA mission. The choice seems to have been made, and they are not suitable as CIA agents, but they are deliberately chosen for this reason because their mission seems to be expendable. When they are trained for this mission, parachuting is carried out to Pakistan where all kinds of wonderful comedy adventures await them.
26 January 1913, Nichols, New York, USA
25 May 1944, Hereford, England, UK
29 November 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
9 July 1940, USSR
29 September 1925, Huntsville, Texas, USA
23 October 1959, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
15 January 1931, Pancras, London, England, UK
25 January 1919, New York City, New York, USA
August 21, 2004
Director John Landis likes to build elaborate cinematic toys, but this one is a comic clinker.
May 24, 2003
[An] irritating comedy in which Aykroyd and Chase play officials who are sent on a secret mission as decoys whilst the real spies do their work. Their inadequacy is matched by a jokey script of dubious morals and taste.
May 20, 2003
There are seeds of something funny in the film's beginning and in its premise, but they are soon dissipated by so little sustained wit, and so much scenery.
September 04, 2010
The movie has since become a cult classic; one that those of a certain age and gender have committed to near memory and can spout lines and scenes on command like a new Army recruit.
June 24, 2006
The script is so patchy that most of the genuine laughs are squeezed into the first half; the rest is a rather tacky and confused extended joke about the nuclear arms race.
November 11, 2004
Often funny film boasts no less then 10 film directors on screen in small roles. Stick around for the Paul McCartney penned title song.
January 14, 2011
Landis' direction is indulgent, to say the least, with big landscapes, big crashes, big hardware, and big gags filling the screen. What he forgets is character development, that all-important factor that must exist for comedy to work well.
July 23, 2003
Too bad audiences didn't.
March 26, 2009
Landis never bothers to account for the friendship that springs up spontaneously between these two antipathetic types, but then he never bothers to account for anything in this loose progression of recycled Abbott and Costello riffs.
December 19, 2002
Once again proof that life is rough after Saturday Night Live.
