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upon first viewing of this movie , the phrases " been there " and " done that " come quickly to mind .
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spy hard manages to steal almost every joke from the zucker brothers films , the most popular of which are airplane and the naked gun series .
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stealing stuff can be profitable in this industry , but only when you steal the right stuff .
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what little plot there is involves dick steele , aka .
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agent wd-40 ( leslie nielsen ) trying to save the world from an almost deranged madman played by andy griffith .
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along the way to it goal ( goal ? ) , the film manages to spoof mainly the james bond type films , but also manages to hit on films such as home alone and sister act .
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the trick about spoofing is that you have to actually be funny , or at the least , satirical .
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spy hard achieves neither , as it borrows all of the wrong elements from the superior zucker brothers films .
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the " dick , the world is in danger .
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what is it ?
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well , it's a big roundish ball floating in space around the sun . .
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( i'm paraphrasing ) " type of exchange is used at least four times in the opening ten minutes of the film , each time getting progressively less funny .
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what they should have stolen were the background sight gags which were so effective in the zucker brother's films while writing their own dialogue .
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director rick friedberg focuses more on the mug shots of his actors ( especially nielsen , who can do this quite well ) than on the delivery and context of their lines , much of the time cutting the punchline short .
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the whole film seems to be in a race with itself to be over , as is evident in the final sequence , where there is no comedic denouement after the climax .
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as was usual in the zucker brothers films and in spy hard , the end credits tend to replace this by being out of context .
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one of the more amusing was , " captain of the enterprise . . . . . . james
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t . kirk " .
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overall , i thought this was a very weak effort .
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while all of the right films to spoof were chosen , they used none of the right spoofing methods .
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next time they should " spy " a little bit harder .
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* * * * = excellent .
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one of a kind .
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must see .
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* * * = entertaining .
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worth the price of admission .
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* * = fair .
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nothing much special .
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* = what were they thinking ? ?
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