xpat-55192 The late Leslie Nielsen is one of my favourite comedic actors, but not even he could carry this clunker along.Pros: Top cast with some attractive eye-candy.Cons: Compared to all of Leslie Nielsen's other comedies this was easily his most disappointing, but I suppose you can only read the lines you are given.

videorama-759-859391 You always know with a Leslie Nielsen slapstick comedy, you'll be in titters. Here, is no exception. This comedy should be called, Spy dumb, as that's what Leslie Nielsen is here, another bumbling character, this time a spy. Having your code name named after a world wide silicon spray, doesn't give you much of a chance. The plot is Spy Dumb too. Bad Guy Andy Griffith, looking twice as ugly, yes, as if almost unrecognizable (he fooled me) needs a particular computer chip to put his dastardly deed, of sending a dangerous missile into space, so he control the world. Agent WD40 (Nielsen being Nielsen) teams up with smoking hot KGB agent, Veronique Ukrinsky (Sheridan, looking much different, beautox, and all) to rescue her father, the designer of the chip where he and his associates are being held hostage in Griffith's secret hideaway. Sheridan's not the only hot one in it, Nielsen, again a ladies man. Watch for a cameo from a Baywatch babe, bed sharing with Nielsen. The movie takes jabs or spoofs at some 94 flicks, while we almost have an unmistakable and moving Loaded Weapon moment. Even an old Michael Jackson incident can't evade this funny flick. I will admit the Speed take off, got all too ridiculous by it's near end, but this is a slapstick comedy, remember, which instigates continual laughter as only our bumbling idiot (who in public, you should avoid at all costs, to your health) delivers. Durning's cloak disguise's got all too ridiculous, to a point, some of them were really stupid. There are a lot of really good and inventively comedy moments. Griffith was really good, but the performance that really had me was that of Barry Bostwick as a warring agency colleague of Nielsen's. The opening theme and lyrics, ala: Bond films, with swimming silhouettes in the b.g. is much a funny start, positively ensuring what follows is gonna be just as funny and it is, yet not as funny as Nielsen's Naked Guns. Hats off here to Weird Al Yankovic, for that cute little opening track/swimming sequence performed by Weird Al "Like A Surgeon" Yankovic. There's quite a few cameos, some I didn't recognize.

Bruce Banner Some movie director's make spoofs on real movies and some just make ripoff's of those spoofs. This is one of the latter.I popped this in because i, like many of the people who watched the Naked gun series (and Airplane and Scary Movies) loved the way the Zucker Abrams director team made incredible comedy with Leslie Nielson.But this movie was directed by entirely different people, who had no qualms about totally ripping off those comic geniuses and what's more egregious- failing to be funny! Just don't waste your time- there are still plenty of great comedies with outrageous Leslie Nielson playing the same exact character that are actually bearable to watch. Unfortunately this is not one of them.

Tim Kidner Yes, you do have to enjoy Leslie Nielson - and millions do - and I am one of them and whilst they're always funny and enjoyable, they do repeat quite obvious gags.He (& the production team) do those very well, of course and Nielson's sense of comic timing spot-on. However, this parody on the James Bond's and Spies of the cinematic world is seldom original. The funniest bits tend to be the gags away from those obviously 'Spy' genre and there's much sending up of films such as Home Alone, Speed, Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Sister Act, Jurassic Park, In the Line of Duty and finally a classic 007 fight-out.However, most of these are just too similar to the originals to be anything more than amusingly recognisable. I'm not saying that they're any better or worse than the Scary Movies send up's of horror flicks, but they could do better; mind you, I never thought I'd see the day Nielson takes the John Travolta role, grey hair in a ponytail, in the infamous dance with Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction.As always, the Silver haired charmer gets the most unlikely of gorgeous ladies and as always these are great value as their ridiculousness are always so well spoofed up. As Dick Steele, (Agent WD40) Nielsen is suitably inept and takes the praise that others create around him, whilst he wreaks havoc. There's a great cameo from Ray Charles as a blind bus driver in the Speed sketch and Charles Durning contributes a large slice of humour as 'The Director', Steele's boss.Leslie Nielsen, RIP - Spy Hard was not his finest film, not a bad one, but alas, not a very good one, which is down to the material, not the great man himself.