Review of Spy Hard

Spy Hard (1996)
6/10
Too many individual movie spoofs, but the gags are hysterical!
6 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Of course this James Bond parody is a spoof of several dozen films of its own, but adding in "Pulp Fiction", "Sister Act", "Home Alone", "Jurassic Park" and so many others, you spend more time reminiscing about the films they are gently poking fun at rather than the story itself. black with a cast led by Leslie Nielsen, everybody is having such a good time, that after the weird Al yankovic opening theme (which is brilliant), you can't help but love it, well most of it. Charles Durning, Andy Griffith, Robert Guillaume, Mr. T., Barry Bostwick (deliciously obnoxious), Ray Charles and others all look like they are just having a blast. Andy Griffith is the main villain, presented in the opening scene supposedly kill yet very much alive and vowing revenge. The plot beyond that doesn't matter.

I believe that's John Ales as the undercover spy who shows up for Nielsen several times just in the nick of time and always in an interesting disguise. He is hysterically funny as he tries to explain the morals of various sayings from his country (never revealed). between Nicole Kidman and Marcia Gay Harden and various other women who pop in and out of the story, it's sort of hard to figure out who is who at times, so the women aren't really presented all that well.

Charles Durning gets the most interesting disguises, appearing at one moment as a chair Nielsen sits in (and a victim of flajulence), and Griffith gets a great exit following Nielsen'sspeech about how anymore on can end up becoming president. The bottom line is though it is basically "Naked Gun 4", ironically better than parts 2 and 3 of that series. And of course, you have to stay through the closing credits where there are more written gags that at a few more laughs before it was all over, and of course, weird Al's reprise.
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