Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #61. Spies like us

Genre: Comedy/Comedie

Annee/Year: 1985

Format: DVD

Spies like us. Another film by director John Landis who also made Blues Brothers and Coming to America. This movies casts Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase in a funny duo which does not really intermix 100% as it could. The result is still funny though with great scenes and frankly who cannot laugh at the faces these two clowns produce. The movie has obviously dated a bit and especially the script as it is set in the middle of the cold war. Two misfits from the US government are entrusted with a mission to stop the deployment of dangerous Russian missiles. What they are not aware of is that they are the decoy team to another already in the field. Well the guys are parachuted in Afghanistan and need to make their way to Russia to save the world.
Still good for quite some good laughs but definitely as aged a bit.

Spies like us est une comédie qui a vieillie, mais est toujours très drôle. Le duo de Dan Akroyd et Chevy Chase est super, mais pas au sommet de ce qu'il aurait pu être. Bon pour les après-midi pluvieux.

Great quotes:

Russian Interregator #2: Every minute you don't tell us why you are here, I cut off a finger.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Mine or yours?
Russian Interregator #2: Yours.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Damn!

Austin Millbarge: [Listening to faint music] It's... "Soul Finger" by the Bar Kays
Emmett Fitz-Hume: They must be havin' a hard time getting gigs.

Alice, Fitz-Hume's Supervisor: You're not going to give me some bullshit that you're dying, are you?
Emmett Fitz-Hume: No... not now.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090056/

Rating perso: 6.0/10