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Spy Hard Details

1995 Certificate PG
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 1832 members

In this spoof of effects-heavy action films and James Bond thrillers, Nielsen plays Agent WD-40, who gets called back into duty when a madman thought to have been killed 15 years earlier resurfaces. Read more

Starring Leslie Nielsen, Nicolette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden
Director Rick Friedberg
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy

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Spy Hard

In this spoof of effects-heavy action films and James Bond thrillers, Nielsen plays Agent WD-40, who gets called back into duty when a madman thought to have been killed 15 years earlier resurfaces.

Starring Leslie Nielsen, Nicolette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick, Andy Griffith, Curtis Armstrong, Elya Baskin, Michael Berryman, Chevy Chase, Robert Culp, Robert Guillaume, Alexandra Paul, Eddie Deezen, Julie Brown
Director Rick Friedberg
Studio WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 18 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 15 Jun 2006
Production year: 1995
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Spy Hard

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    The blockbuster action thriller genre is ripe for sending up, but this lazy effort has to go down as a miss despite the presence of spoofmeister Leslie Nielsen. The basic story is firmly rooted in James Bond — Nielsen is superagent Dick Steele battling supervillain Andy Griffith — but to ensure all the bases are covered director Rick Friedberg tosses in largely irrelevant send-ups of Speed, Pulp Fiction and In the Line of Duty. The cast — which includes Charles Durning and Nicollette Sheridan, plus cameos from Robert Culp and Fabio — tries hard but is defeated by the determinedly juvenile script. Incidentally, the Bond-style soundtrack is by Bill Conti, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated title track of For Your Eyes Only.

    • Radio Times
  • This scrapes the bottom of a genre that is now beyond satirizing and no longer funny in itself; a ragbag of feeble jokes ineffectually aimed at the Bond films, it doesn't even attempt to hit its target.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    good from the start

    This is a Bond spoof down to the opening song.

    It does have a good story so very watchable, the spoof bits work very well and leslie neilson is on top form.

      • eagle230805 from Hampshire
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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    good from the start

    This is a Bond spoof down to the opening song.

    It does have a good story so very watchable, the spoof bits work very well and leslie neilson is on top form.

      • eagle230805 from Hampshire
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