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.
Spies Like Us
With spies like these, who needs enemies?
1985 · 1h 42m · PG
Adventure, Comedy
Directed by
John Landis
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Spies Like Us
Overview
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Director and cast
- John Landis Director
- Chevy Chase as Emmett Fitz-Hume
- Dan Aykroyd as Austin Millbarge
- Steve Forrest as General Sline
- Donna Dixon as Karen Boyer
- Bruce Davison as Ruby
- Terry Gilliam as Dr. Imhaus
- Frank Oz as Test Monitor
- Vanessa Angel as Russian Rocket Crewperson
- Bernie Casey as Colonel Rhumbus
- Charles McKeown as Jerry Hadley
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The script is so patchy that most of the genuine laughs are squeezed into the first half; the rest is a rather tacky and confused extended joke about the nuclear arms race.
There are seeds of something funny in the film's beginning and in its premise, but they are soon dissipated by so little sustained wit, and so much scenery.
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