Alicia I love this movie so much

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

TownRootGuy This may be Gary Cole's best flick but since I can't remember anything else he's been in besides, 'Office Space', that's not really saying much. The other big names in this have all had much better films. It has outstanding eye candy, decent action, some FX, a great cast AND, while they don't land all their jokes, they do slip in enough funny to leave you feeling a little punch drunk. This movie is exactly what you should expect from Wilson and Murphy. I enjoy it enough to watch it every 2 or 3 years.

NateWatchesCoolMovies I Spy is a silly little piece of fluff with not a whole lot of merit to it, besides some slick production design. It's based on a cherished television show of the same name that ran during the mid 60's, starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. I have never seen an episode, so I couldn't tell you how that show differs from the film, but the film struck me as redundant and overly shtick-y, even for outlandish actors like Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. Murphy is eternally more magnetic and talented than Cosby ever was so I guess there's that, and Wilson does his usual sheepish wannabe alpha thing which holds up for a little while before we want to rearrange that nose of his with our fists for the fiftieth time. He plays a top secret government agent who is attempting to stop the purchase and use of a military prototype jet that can literally turn invisible, from both the naked eye and sonar detectors. To achieve this task, he needs the help of a mouthy, arrogant professional athlete, played by Murphy. Don't ask me why he needs him because I don't remember, but giving him someone to constantly bicker with for the whole movie seems to be the only reason I can think of. They natter at each other for friggin ages on end, until we feel like the film consists more of them bitching at one another than actually... you know.. spying. The quality level spikes a little bit when Famke Janssen shows up as the obligatory Femme Fatale, clad in black leather and dosing out sexy charisma in spades despite the fact that she's ultimately not given much to do. There's an underused Gary Cole and a suave Malcolm McDowell who plays the arch villain and culprit of the whole scheme with class and sass that the film hardly deserves. This one's a dud, there's just no way around it, and there's nothing I hate more than dishing out a negative review, but I needed a spare Famke flick to round out the week's work, so find it in your heart to forgive me pls.

Python Hyena I Spy (2002): Dir: Betty Thomas / Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole: Eddie Murphy's third flop of 2002, the others being The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Showtime. It wasn't that long ago when this guy was extremely funny. Now the only thing funny is how he gets talked into appearing in sh*t like this. Title regards Eddie Murphy referring to himself in the third person. He plays boxing champion Kelly Robinson sent on a mission with reluctant agent Owen Wilson. Plot is replaced with idiotic situations with spy movie clichés and an ending that goes into overkill. Director Betty Thomas employs an idiotic scene where the agents end up upon a truck hauling new cars. They cut them loose at the pursuing villains but never does the driver stop to investigate his suddenly descending cargo. Thomas made a great comedy in Private Parts but this is hardly in the same range as that film. Murphy and Wilson are fine comedic performers but this junk does neither one of them any justice. Famke Janssen was a great villainess in the 007 film Goldeneye but she demonstrates none of that talent here. Malcolm McDowell will always be remembered for his great performance in A Clockwork Orange but this is a film he will likely not wish to reflect upon. The result is a pointless comedy with pathetic production values that render it totally unwatchable. Score: 0 / 10

rrandcoyote Obviously the creators of this film did not care for the original show. If they had, they wouldn't have gone so far out of their way to alter it beyond recognition.Kelly and Scotty were suave, urbane, competent. Neither one of them was James Bond. They never stopped into the spy center to pick up their gadgets.Kelly did NOT have a posse, a bevy of bi-atches or a private airplane with his name splattered on the side, and he did not refer to himself in the third person. AND, he was a WHITE tennis player, not a black exhibition boxer. (I guess white men can't jump, so they made the black guy the athlete.) Robert Culp was incredibly sexy but did not refer to himself as "Agent Double Oh Nine and a Half". I mean, ewe! But, these are all elements of this film, which for some reason bares the name of the series and heists the character names.I don't think I would have hated this movie so much if it weren't pretending to have anything to do with the classic series. If it were a stand alone flick about a couple of spy guys, then, so what. But, as it is, it's basically an affront to the original "I Spy". Was their only research a poster or something? Because, the original show is available on DVD, so it's not as if it's gone from the planet.It brings to mind the horrific "update" of the "Wild, Wild West", a Razzie Award fav.I don't have any problem with black people updating these characters and stepping into the roles. But, do they have to do it so badly? Kelly and Scotty were never goofy, or grossly incompetent. (Ok, so they walked into a couple of fists along the way. It was subtle comedy, not this over-blown mess.) This Kelly and "Alex" are hopelessly off the mark.Updates can work, (Scooby-Doo, Addams Family, Bradey Bunch) but there has to be SOME respect for the source material, even if it's parody. How can you parody something you've never bothered to see.And gawd, this movie makes me love Culp and Cosby even more than I already do!