Spy Hard

Day 64 - 3/5/09 - Movie #62

BEFORE: Worked late on Thursday night - so I'm glad that these parody films are so short! Only a couple more to go, this one features Leslie Nielsen as the hero and Andy Griffith as the villain. Again, I mostly know about the film because of the theme song by Weird Al.

THE PLOT: General Rancor is threatening to destroy the world with a missile he is hiding at his secret base. Special Agent Dick Steele is assigned to the case, in order to prevent the worst.

AFTER: This movie so badly wanted to be as funny as "Austin Powers" - but it just wasn't. For a spoof of James Bond films, it actually plays it too straight! And each pun, like the characters' names, just gets repeated over and over and run into the ground. The woman's name is Barbie Dahl, we GET IT already! Do you have to stress it 50 times? And how old is Leslie Nielsen, anyway? 80? And he's still trying to play an action hero?

RATING; 4 out of 10 microchips, and I'm being generous.