If I Spy were funny (enough) or exciting (enough) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it’s trying to reap from the moviegoing public.
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10/31/02
I Spy (2002)
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Reviews Counted:131
Fresh:20
Rotten:111
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Insipid and mirthless, I-Spy bares little resemblance to the TV series that inspired it.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When the Air Force's newest stealth bomber--complete with cloaking device--disappears, secret agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is sent to Budapest to find it. To Scott's dismay, he is teamed with... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Betty Thomas
Reviews for I Spy
Apparently the Hollywood studios can no longer be bothered to actually watch the old TV shows they are ripping off.
10/31/02
If you thought Enron's power-supply manipulation was a waste of energy, wait until you see I-Spy.
10/31/02
Thomas trudges through the film's action sequences with such obvious disinterest that when Wilson turns from a lackluster fireball to quip, 'Whoa, that was a big explosion,' you really know he's putting us on.
10/31/02
With large portions shot on ugly digital video rather than film stock, the movie frequently looks like a washed out old videotape.
10/31/02
I Spy is ample reminder that memorable comedy is, in its own way, as tricky to pull off as a good party.
10/31/02
An overblown clunker full of bad jokes, howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences.
10/31/02
A sometimes very funny but mostly banal action-comedy that has only superficial links to its 1960s source.
10/31/02
Owen Wilson...has officially refined his act into saleable Hollywood shtick.
10/31/02
It's been 20 years since 48 Hrs. made Eddie Murphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day. But his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old.
10/31/02
File the film and Murphy's performance under Motion Sickness.
10/30/02
An uninspired buddies-from-hell comedy with a theater sound system so loud some punch lines are muffled.
10/30/02
Cut from the same mold as celluloid trash like Bad Company...[but] both Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson are genuinely funny.
10/30/02
a wholly generic odd-couple action comedy that blows things up at regular intervals in the hopes of drowning out the sad sound of its jokes falling flat
10/30/02
Spy is one of those films in which so little thought went into the story, the characters often whine about not being able to keep things straight. But consider this: It took four people to pen a story that doesn't make a lick of sense.
10/30/02
As pedestrian as they come.
10/29/02
The rapport between Wilson and Murphy is uproarious, even if the action bits are a little lame.
10/29/02
A harmless, though instantly forgettable and utterly brainless, diversion...a popcorn movie that isn't terribly good, but is better than it might have been.
10/29/02
An unremarkable, modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title.
10/29/02
A whole lot of fun and funny in the middle, though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish.
10/28/02
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