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Favorite spy-spoofs?

posted 13 years ago by gilknut
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The spy-spoof... I'm not sure if it could be called a "genre" of its own, but it has produced some of my favourite comedies -- and some merely "ok" ones, I suppose. Anyway I'm trying to put together a list. These are the ones I can think of at the moment:

Johnny English (I, II)
Austin Powers (I, II and III)
Get Smart
Top Secret
The Naked Gun (I, II and III)
Spy Hard
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Spies Like Us
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Casino Royale (the 1967 one with Peter Sellers)
The Nude Bomb

Other gems are only "sort of" spy-spoofs, or at least they only partly come across as such, like The Pink Panther-series with Peter Sellers (yes, he's a policeman, but the locations and scope of the plots frequently wander into secret agent territory) and the eminent "Black Dynamite".

Am I forgetting some? Please enlighten me. ;)

[–] zeus_666 13 years ago

Archer
In Like Flint + Our Man Flint
The Matt Helm Movies (The Silencers, Murderer's Row, The Ambushers, The Wrecking Crew)

IMDB has a list of some at:
http://www.imdb.com/keyword/james-bond-spoof/?sort=num_votes

[–] gilknut 13 years ago

Thanks -- I wasn't aware of these. :)

[–] JesterSevens 13 years ago

Bullshot Crummond, a spoof of bulldog drummond, 1930s detective shananigans, the spoof is very funny and very British don't you know!

your opinion is the wrong one!

[–] gilknut 13 years ago

Thanks, I'll check them out. :)

[–] john_locke4 13 years ago

Archer is fantastic.

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[–] iroquoisjoe 13 years ago

Johnny English Reborn is without a doubt my favorite parody of spy movies.

[–] Arseweb 12 years ago

Carry On Spying

[–] yurenchu 11 years ago

- True Lies (1994)
- If Looks Could Kill (1991) a.k.a. Teen Agent
- Condorman (1981)
- The Tuxedo (2002)
- OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions (2006) a.k.a. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies - not seen myself
- OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009) a.k.a. OSS 117: Lost In Rio - not seen myself
- "Chuck" (2007)
- "Spy" (2011) - short-lived British comedy series starring Darren Boyd and Robert Lindsay
- "Fortune Hunter" (1994) - short-lived TV-series, starring the late Mark Frankel.
- "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (1996) - TV-series starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello
- the old "Get Smart" franchise, starring Don Adams (two TV-series and two movies) - not seen myself though
- "Inspector Gadget" (1983), animated TV-series
- Inspector Gadget (1999) and Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) - not seen myself
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964 TV Series) - never watched myself
- I Spy (2002) - maybe
- "I Spy" (1965) - TV-series, never watched myself though
- Les Barbouzes (1964) - not seen myself
- Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967) - not seen myself
- Carry on Spying (1964) - not seen myself
- S*P*Y*S (1974) - not seen myself
- Spyz (2003) - rubbish 8 minute short, by Sacha Baron Cohen (a.k.a. Ali G).
- Spy Kids -franchise
- Agent Cody Banks (I and II)
- The Double 0 Kid (1992) (V) - awful movie though
- The Spy Next Door - not watched myself
- "The War Next Door" - short-lived TV-series

See also http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&genres=comedy&keywords=s py&sort=user_rating&title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_series,tv_s pecial,mini_series,short,video

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[–] avortac4 (3770) 3 years ago

Damn, I bungled my reply and now I have to type it all over again.

The Tuxedo is not a 'Spy Spoof' movie, it's a 'Jackie Chan-movie'. His movies are a whole world in themselves, and he uses any idea or genre, but in the end, his movies are about martial arts and incredible stunts, nothing much more.

Inspector Gadget is not so much an 'animated TV series' (no need for hyphen for that), as it's a 'children's saturday morning cartoon', so it's not to be taken seriously.

You can't just take anything with a 'Spy theme' and call it a day, this list is worthless.

It has to be a PROPER Spy Spoof movie, and almost nothing in your list qualifies, what a lazy and completely useless list!

You have to actually WORK to create a list like this, you can't just slap some search results you get from the term 'spy' in your post and think you did something.

[–] Caprizonica8 11 years ago

Zoolander, in which we have "Mulder" (David Duchovny from XFiles)
Date Night
Tuxedo

I´ve always liked The naked Gun and True Lies. Very good and funny.

I don´t particularly like the new pink panther renditions, nor Get Smart. Not good enough for me. Zohan and Austin Powers 3 are just awful.

[–] avortac4 (3770) 3 years ago

Do you or other people even understand what this list is supposed to be all about? Get Smart is great, the old Pink Pather movies are wonderful.

However, I don't think they belong to this list - Pink Panther movies belong maybe even more, because they're very Austin Power-ish movies.

[–] avortac4 (3770) 3 years ago

There's the 'agent-spoof' and then there's the 'agent-spoof' genre.

Austin Powers and the Pink Panther stuff is very close to this movie's style of James Bond-ish spoofing, but I don't think Spies Like Us or Get Smart quite reach this style.

The Man Who Knew Too Little is more of a silly comedy instead of a proper spy movie spoof, The Naked Gun has nothing to do with this genre in my opinion, Top Secret is "Elvis in World War II" rather than anything like this, I am not sure about the others.

So as far as THIS kind of James Bond-ish "Proper Spy Movie Spoofs" go, only Johnny English and Austin Powers movies qualify.

Spy Hard is on the edge, I am not sure whether it qualifies - it IS a bit Austin Powerish in many ways, but it's also not that good a movie.