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.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
06/09/25
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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
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Brad S. R
A couple of good scenes and one big laugh illustrate how good this Cold War comedy could've been, but, alas, most of it plays out with numbing indifference.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/18/25
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David F
Spies Like Us isn't a terrific movie. But it's not a bad one either. It's very much of its time, with 1980s cold war concepts like the naughty Soviet Union being the enemy of good old Uncle Sam, as personified by who else? Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. These two play their usual characters, but what's not usual is that the two are teamed up together. They're not an obvious pairing, as Chase's style is broader and more old-school, and Ayckroyd is more intellectual and knowing. I would imagine that it was originally written for a different pairing, but someone was unavailable.
They work together, and director John Landis manages to calm down Chase's usual excesses, but hey, you don't employ Chevy Chase if you don't want Chevy Chase. The plot is a halfway decent spy adventure, and could have worked even without the comedy element. But by far my most favourite part of the film is the cameos from well-known directors, Terry Gilliam, Ethan Coen, Michel Apted, Larry Cohen, Sam Raimi and Martin Brest, as well as comic actor Bob Hope, and Thunderbirds special effects man Derek Meddings. Oh, and Paul McCartney's theme music, which was one of his last big pop hits.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/14/25
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William F
I think this was a great comedy with the fate of the world in these bufoons hands. I would wattch it again two legendary actors, what can i say?
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/09/24
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Blu B
Man the first 40 minutes is actually pretty solid and funny with great chemistry and gags by Chevy & Dan who got great chemistry at times. The problems start to show the moment in the middle when they operate on the guy and it just starts to lose focus and later commits the bigggest cardinal sin a comedy can do. It stops being funny. It's like as it goes on it relies more on its spy thriller plot for the comedy rather than the actors with an occasional laugh every now and than. It really dries up in terms of charm and fun the longer the second half goes. What's left without it is a serviceable spy plot that is ok at best and kind of stupid at worst. Everything about it is just ok honestly. It's amazing how much it just runs out of gas in terms of humor after the first 40 minutes. If your a die hard fan of Landis, Ackroyd or Chase than check this out. Otherwise most people can skip this. Chase is probably the best thing in this and isn't half bad even in the second half but is much stronger in the first half.
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
11/30/23
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