Spy
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Director: Paul Feig
Writer: Paul Feig
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law
Storyline
Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis.
Reviews
I found Bridesmaids lovely, within limits it set up for itself. It had chemistry between actors and believable plight so we had an entry into someone's home before we started slipping lewdly on the floor; it was anchored into something.
This is by the same maker but he built this time using the most tired formula imaginable; the spy cartoon where we swap Bond's suaveness for goofy incompetence. It seems they make one of these every year. McCarthy has to be the unlikely spy and in her own bumbling way of course makes it. The joke is that she has to look like a cat lady from Iowa.
The moral is that that is just the disguise foisted on her by society as part of a narrative and she must learn to assert herself. But the jokes are only stuck in corny movie cliché and along the way we get guns, fights and chases, all of it needless boredom, because you're not going to wow us with action in a McCarthy comedy.
Nothing stands. See, if you want to make a cartoon where nothing is anchored, you have to continuously assail our expectation and so fast that we don't have time to notice there's no ground beneath our feet - Naked Gun. They try to bother with a plot here.
I don't think McCarthy can be the center of a movie. Because she's so good at antics and it comes so easy (I imagine a lot of ad libbing from her), it seems the desire to turn her into Will Ferrell overpowers anything else.
This is by the same maker but he built this time using the most tired formula imaginable; the spy cartoon where we swap Bond's suaveness for goofy incompetence. It seems they make one of these every year. McCarthy has to be the unlikely spy and in her own bumbling way of course makes it. The joke is that she has to look like a cat lady from Iowa.
The moral is that that is just the disguise foisted on her by society as part of a narrative and she must learn to assert herself. But the jokes are only stuck in corny movie cliché and along the way we get guns, fights and chases, all of it needless boredom, because you're not going to wow us with action in a McCarthy comedy.
Nothing stands. See, if you want to make a cartoon where nothing is anchored, you have to continuously assail our expectation and so fast that we don't have time to notice there's no ground beneath our feet - Naked Gun. They try to bother with a plot here.
I don't think McCarthy can be the center of a movie. Because she's so good at antics and it comes so easy (I imagine a lot of ad libbing from her), it seems the desire to turn her into Will Ferrell overpowers anything else.
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