Spy (2015)

Thanks for the memories!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This movie makes me laugh everytime. Imo Melissa's best. Alison is soo funny. Miranda too.I wish it took more money at cinema so we could have a sequel.Id love to see Rebel Wilson join the cast..

The problem with this film is that both the star and director made it under the misapprehension that swearing a lot is funny by itself so have therefore seemingly dispensed with putting any effort in when it comes to actually constructing comedic scenes and delivering punchlines. Relying on famous faces saying "fuck" every five seconds loses any impact quite quickly and stops being funny soon after. That said, Jason Statham sends his hard man persona up quite nicely and the film picks up whenever his on screen but its little and far between.The film is also extremely violent for a comedy - with several minor characters suffering quite horrendous wounds and deaths in the "name of fun". Having a character suffer multiple gun shot wounds, stabbing a woman in the hand and having a man have his throat melt after drinking acid may be funny to director Paul Feig but he doesn't have the skill nor the competence to handle "Tom & Jerry" violence and misjudges the tone of the film completely. Is someone throwing up on a dead man really the height of comedy?Finally, their is an underlying tone of racism (offensive Italian stereotypes, racist language etc) throughout that arguably leaves a worst taste in the mouth than the aforementioned acid.

This came out around the Melissa McCarthy rage and it honestly looked terrible so I never had any interest in seeing it. It's not a great movie but it did surprise me. The plot was decent enough with a couple plot twists but it was mainly about her free styling. Sometimes it was really funny and sometimes she just kept going too long which is basically what always happens with her. I enjoyed the first half of the movie a lot but then she became more confident in the movie and thus her insults became more ridiculous. I thought she was much more funny when she wasn't confident but either way it was a decent use of my time. Much better than I thought it would be.

I avoided this bomb for 3 years, but with little other choice of things to watch, and my sister saying she had enjoyed it, I gave it a chance. Full of things even a child would not find funny (the likes of fart jokes and excessive profanity), but unfortunately completely void of humour. And they are considering a sequel?