Spy Hard

Spy Hard (1996)

  • 6% of critics liked it
    (31 reviews)

  • 35% of users liked it
    (37,440 ratings)

The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele,… More

PG-13,
Directed By
Genres
Action & Adventure, Comedy
In Theaters
May 24, 1996 Wide
Hollywood Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    The picture that will test the durability of Leslie Nielsen's lowbrow franchise, Spy Hard sticks closely to the Naked Gun formula. Not only is the formula itself wearing thin, but the gags themselves feel recycled.

  • Derek Adams, Time Out

    Like Hot Shots! there's the same mistaken belief that simply tagging other films will be intrinsically funny...

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    Nielsen, with his expert deadpan and sense of comic timing, creates the illusion of humor -- for about 15 minutes.

  • David Kronke, Los Angeles Times

    This movie unfortunately wastes a perfectly promising idea -- satirizing James Bond films along with any other pop-culture celluloid phenomenon that crosses the filmmakers' minds.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    A dreadfully unfunny comedy that takes Naked Gun-like sketches and rehashes them without a whit of style or energy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dead A


    Piece of poo! <a href='http://www.thescubasite.com' title='Scuba Site'><img src='http://forum.thescubasite.com/sick/sick0012.gif' alt='Scuba Site' border='0'></a>

  • Anthony L


    Quite bad but it does have Mr T and Hulk Hogan in it and that?s what the star and a half is for!

  • Lafe F


    Leslie Nielson does a funny James Bond spoof, which is actually better than some of the James Bond movies! I liked when he was attempting to sneak into someone's apartment, and ends up trashing the entire place.

  • Dean !


    Another spoof starring Leslie Nielsen sending up Die Hard, Jame Bond and plenty of other action films. Will raise a few laughs but not the best spoof around.

  • danny d


    very funny spoof flick

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