Spies Like Us

Starring:Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Casey, William Prince, Tom Hatten, Frank Oz, Charles McKeown, James Daughton, Jim Staahl, Vanessa Angel, Svetlana Plotnikova, Bjarne Thomsen, Sergei Rousakov, Garrick Dombrovski, Terry Gilliam, Costa-Gavras, Seva Novgorodtsev
Director: John Landis
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Yet another bad movie in a lengthy string of losers for all three of the principals involved here: director John Landis and stars Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. Chase and Aykroyd play a pair of bumbling would-be CIA agents who are spotted cheating on the entrance exam. So the CIA decides to use them as bait in a mission to flummox the Russians. Lots of pointless slapstick and mugging, but Landis hasn't made a genuinely funny film since Trading Places. Aykroyd and Chase seem smug and self-satisfied (don't they always?), as though they can rest forever on laurels earned during the 1975 season of Saturday Night Live. Look for a gaggle of film directors (Terry Gilliam, Joel Coen, Costa-Gavras) in cameo roles: that's the closest this film comes to cleverness. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews:

"We mock what we don't understand".......2007-05-25

How unique to see a movie in which Dan Aykroyd looks short!

There's nothing terribly wrong with "Spies Like Us". The plot is perfectly sound as the basis for a comedy, and Chase and Aykroyd do their best with the material. The problem is that it's just not that funny. There are only a handful of the laugh-out-loud moments that should serve as justification for the whole enterprise.

Another problem is that Chase's character is so hopelessly incompetent that he makes no contribution to the characters' mission whatsoever. Aykroyd's character could have done the whole thing by himself. This characteristic is not shared by "Ghostbusters" or even "The Blues Brothers", in which all the leading characters have particular technical and/or social skills that are essential to the success of the team. As an Aykroyd fan I'm always happy to see him playing courageous and competent characters, but Austin Millbarge is arguably **too** perfect; he doesn't have any of the kind of peculiarities that Aykroyd can get his teeth into as an actor, like Ray Stantz's childlike nature in "Ghostbusters" or Mother's outrageous conspiracy theories in "Sneakers".

5 star comment.......2007-03-09

The priduct arrived ahed of time, no problems, no dispute
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Lame.......2006-07-18

When John Belushi died in 1982, he left Dan Aykroyd with several scripts and the sad end to what could have been a great comedy team like Laurel & Hardy or Abbott & Costello.

Aykroyd filled John's spot in GHOSTBUSTERS with Bill Murray and hit comedy gold.

He filled SPIES LIKE US with Chevy Chase and came up snake eyes.

View at your own risk. At least it's not as bad as NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, easily one of the worst comedies ever made.

Spies like Us.......2006-07-03

I love this movie with a Paul McCartney song. I received it fast and at a great price.

quite weak.......2006-06-14

The story is about special agents saving the world from some bad guys in the US government. The idea is similar to the 007 movies, but it is really not comparable. The movie is quite primitive, the story is predictable, the jokes are about old Cold War era stereotypes. The acting would be ok for some late night show episodes but not a full length movie.

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Spies Like Us/Nothing but Trouble
Starring: Spies Like Us , and Nothing But Trouble
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000E8QVCY
Release Date: 2006-05-02

Description

What pencil pushers Emmett (Chevy Chase) and Austin (Dan Aykroyd) don't know about spying they make up for in laughs in Spies like Us (Side A). The two desk jockeys fake their way into becoming spies with limitless limitations in this funfest that plays like a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road movie. John Landis (Trading Places) directs. The comedy cohorts team again in a movie that asks: What do Chevy Chase and Demi Moore get when a wrong turn lands them in a strange New Jersey burg? They get Nothing but Trouble (Side B), with Aykroyd as a cranky 106-year-old Justice of the Peace and John Candy playing a dutiful lawman. With direction by Aykroyd, appearances by members of hip-hop's Digital Underground, plus two more Aykroyd and Candy roles, this binge of giggles and guffaws is anything but predictable!

Chevy Chase Collection - Caddyshack/Funny Farm/Spies Like Us

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Docter, docter, docter, docter.

Chevy Chase Collection - Caddyshack/Funny Farm/Spies Like Us
Starring: Chevy Chase , Rodney Dangerfield , Ted Knight , Michael O'Keefe , and Bill Murray
Director: Harold Ramis , John Landis , and George Roy Hill
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Customer Reviews:

Docter, docter, docter, docter........2004-03-08

This is a great collection and is Chevy Chase's best films. (Well, and Vacation.) My favorite out of the three would have to be Spies Like Us. It's so funny when they go into the tent with a bunch of docter's and they pretend to be docter's and they greet each other like this "Doctor, doctor, doctor, nice to meet you doctor, doctor, docter, docter, nice to meet you, doctor, and doctor. Funny farms special features are horrible. All we get on the menu is Play, Scene Selction, and Set Up. Come on warner, for this classic, aleast add a trailer and a commentary. But Spies Like Us is WORSE. How, all it has on the main menu is Play and Scene Selection. Not even a set up, and yet it's fullscreen. Shame on you warner. Caddyshack's features are ok. Good documentary but should have had a commentary. Let's say, (even with the lack of features on two of the films) that this set is well worth your money.

Caddyshack- This is a great film. Bill Murray and Chevy Chase are hilarious in this film. Althou it is a little crude, and is not for your kids, it will still have you rolling with laughter. The golpher is the best part of this movie. He is so funny. 9/10
Rated R for language, sexual content, mild violence, crude humor, and nudity.

Funny Farm- This is a pretty funny film and the box doen't lie. This is some of Chevy's best work. It is a movie for the whole family to enjoy on a friday night. One of my favorite parts is when the ducks fly away and Chevy's says "Bye fellas". Then you hear a gun shot and the birds come flying back and he says "Hi fellas." 8/10
Rated PG for some mild language, crude humor and some violence.

Spies Like Us- Now this movie is the real treat in this set. It had me laughing my @$$ off all the way through and you will too. Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase are great together. Enough said. "I was gonna do your family a favor and install the the disney channel for free, but forget it." 10/10
Rated PG for launguage and some crude humor.

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