Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

loose_ends An entertaining and surprisingly suspenseful parody, Spy's strengths outweigh its flaws. The film stars Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a CIA agent who works in the basement feeding information to superstar spy Bradley Fine (Jude Law). Cooper has an obvious crush on Fine, who seems not to notice, though one can't help but wonder if he is faking it. When Fine disappears, Cooper volunteers to go out into the field on her first-ever mission to avenge him.Jude Law plays one of the few serious characters in the film, a clear spoof of James Bond. The rest of the cast is filled out with comedic talent such as Nancy (Miranda Hart), Cooper's wacky friend, Rayna Boynakov (Rose Byrne), a snobby nuclear arms-dealer's daughter, and Rick Ford (Jason Stratham), a thick-skulled and stubborn former agent who always seems to show up where he is least wanted.The humor in Spy is best when it contains some aspect of social commentary. For instance, when Collins receives her spy aliases, they're outsize stereotypes of what we think a woman of Melissa McCarthy's age and weight might be. Why would it make sense for a spy to run around Rome in a hot pink track suit and hideous wig pretending to be a cat lady from Iowa? Well, there the film's logic breaks down, but it's well worth the joke. The sparring between Cooper and Rayna is similarly hilarious because of Rayna's elevated sense of class and arrogance compared to Cooper's humble American persona. Ford, on the other hand, plays the biggest stereotype of a hypermasculine action hero possible, playing up the absurdity of such characters.Where Spy falls flat for me is the excessive vulgar humor. A character can't just say an f-bomb one time; she has to say it ten times. When Cooper finds obscene photos on an enemy's camera, we can't just see one picture, we have to see ten (and a video!). There's one character who seems to exist purely to grope Cooper whenever he is onscreen. Sometimes you just need to know where to stop.No one goes to see movies like this for the plot or action sequences, though they are surprisingly well done. A couple of the plot twists will probably throw you off enough to forget the film is meant to be a comedy, and the action sequences are suspenseful, including one that takes place in a kitchen where the characters throw vegetables at each other and hit one another with pans. It sounds cartoony, but in practice it's not. When all is said and done, this is a well-made film, but one definitely needs a tolerance for vulgar humor to enjoy it.

Chantal Pastorek Bigniggs (chantal-pastorek-bigniggs) So this useless woman is the best CIA has and can deploy to the field? At least if the useless and untalented and unfit agent had other talents we could take that, right? Let's say if she were funny at least, but she is not only untalented, she is also not funny.So why would CIA deploy her?

Pjtaylor-96-138044 I'd be lying if I said I was ever expecting anything from this spy spoof - due to a combination of its marketing, the behind-the-lens talent and, even, an overall lack of enthusiasm of its pastiche prospects, since most in that particular sub-genre are indeed sub-par. I'd also be lying if I said I wasn't pleasantly surprised by 'Spy (2015)', though, because, while it's predictable and predictably clichéd in both its narrative and overall execution, the feature is actually rather entertaining and even sort of endearing in its own, albeit slightly neutered and kind of cringe-inducing, way. It's not particularly funny, though there are some jokes that land amidst the many that don't, and there's a narrative element that takes a certain character and their arc in an annoying direction, one that actually goes so far in that specific direction it almost runs counter to itself, but there's plenty to like here. Your mileage will vary, though, depending greatly on how empathetic you find the characters and how funny you find the humour. 6/10

Suhon Janes (grv-52793) Not FunnyNot seriousNot good actingNot good storyNot originalNot deepNot EntertainingNot well actedNot well shotNot with a future