Spies Like Us

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David W Was this meant to have been a comedy..? Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/09/25 Full Review Mike W. What better movie to show how America needed the average citizen to save the country? Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/02/25 Full Review Evan T C'mon guys. This movie is hilarious. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/18/25 Full Review Stephen C Funny in 1 hour and 49 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $56,500,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/04/25 Full Review thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/09/25 Full Review Ola G Austin Millbarge (Dan Aykroyd) is a code breaker dwelling in the dark basement at the Pentagon who aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent. Emmett Fitz-Hume (Chevy Chase), a wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy, takes the foreign service exam under peer pressure. Millbarge and Fitz-Hume meet during the test, on which Fitz-Hume openly cheats after his attempts to bribe his female supervisor and the test monitor in exchange for the answers both fail. Millbarge was not prepared to take the test, having had only one night to study after his supervisor deliberately withheld a two-weeks notice for the exam, leaving him vulnerable to fail and having to remain in the bowels of the Pentagon. Needing two expendable covert agents to act as decoys to draw attention away from a more capable team, Ruby and Keyes of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) decide to enlist Fitz-Hume and Millbarge, promote them to GLG-20 Foreign Service Operatives, rush them through minimal military survival training, and then send them on an undefined mission inside Pakistan and Soviet Central Asia. Meanwhile, the two professional agents are well on their way to carry out the actual objective: the seizure of a mobile SS-50 ICBM launcher in Soviet territory... The Washington Post critic Paul Attanasio called Spies Like Us "a comedy with exactly one laugh, and those among you given to Easter egg hunts may feel free to try and find it". The Chicago Reader critic Dave Kehr criticized the character development, saying that "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". The New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote: "The stars are always affable, and they're worth watching even when they do very little, but it's painful to sit by as the screenplay runs out of steam." Variety magazine opined in a staff review: "Spies is not very amusing. Though Chase and Aykroyd provide moments, the overall script thinly takes on eccentric espionage and nuclear madness, with nothing new to add." TV Guide published a staff review, stating: "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." David Parkinson, writing for the Radio Times, felt that "Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase simply fail to gel, and there's little fun to be had once the boisterous training school gags are exhausted." Rotten Tomatoes consensus states: "Despite the comedic prowess of its director and two leads, Spies Like Us appears to disavow all knowledge of how to make the viewer laugh." Writing for Common Sense Media, Andrea Beach called the film a "dated '80s comedy [with] strong language, few laughs". Collider staff writer Jeff Giles, reviewing the film's Blu-ray release, stated: "on the whole, it’s more amusing than funny; it’s only 102 minutes, but it feels too long by half. For all the talent involved, there’s an awful lot of flab. It’s the kind of movie you can walk away from for 10 minutes without missing anything important." (Via Wikipedia) I haven´t seen "Spies Like Us" for many many years and I have been thinking about re-seeing if for a long time. It's clear that I might have thought it was funny back in 1985 and the 13 year old me, but this is such a failed Cold War comedy that is just over the top silly and stupid with a Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd on autopilot trying to navigate a non existing script with absolutely no laughs. And it doesn't help that director John Landis have thrown in several famous cameos. It's slightly painful and embarrassing to see this mess that seems to have been solemnly based on making sure that the leads were played by Chase and Aykroyd. I guess Landis hoped to have a new "The Blues Brothers" on his hands with "Spies Like Us" since John Belushi was supposed to play Emmett Fitz-Hume, but that wouldn't have helped since there's really no storyline. No need to see this one. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/31/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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