Product Description

When the switchblade the most sophisticated stealth fighter ever created is stolen from the u.S. Government one of the united states top spies is called in to action. What he doesnt expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian boxing champion. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Eddie Murphy Famke Janssen Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Betty Thomas

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23713 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2003-03-11
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.com
Eddie Murphy needed a comeback after The Adventures of Pluto Nash, but I Spy didn't provide it. As with his previous turkey, Murphy's the least of this movie's problems; his spitfire delivery begs for better plotting and dialogue, and his teaming with Owen Wilson had even more promise than Wilson's Shanghai comedies with Jackie Chan. But this unfunny hash--bearing no resemblance to the 1960s Bill Cosby-Robert Culp TV series that inspired it--undermines Murphy and Wilson at every turn, stranding them in scenes that play well in isolation but never form a coherent action-comedy. It's not that director Betty Thomas is incapable; she just seems uninterested, going through the motions while Eddie, Owen, and Famke Janssen play spy games in Budapest, chasing after a villain (Malcolm McDowell, wasted again) who's stolen a sleek, invisibility-cloaked jet bomber called the Switchblade. Explosions, shootouts, double-crosses... ignore it all, and find what pleasure you can in Eddie and Owen's aimless banter. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson team up as a reluctant pair of secret agents. Their mission, which they've decided to accept, is to collect a huge check. The movie is not even remotely based on the groundbreaking sixties television series; instead, the producers bought the title and hired witless writers to patch together a screenplay. Murphy and Wilson are clearly up for a good time, but the whole project fails miserably. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

haha
it is fun funny movie it makes me want to be a spy. it so cool

Startlingly Bad, Definitely Unwatchable
Not even a rental. I wasted my time and money on this, but you don't have to.

The script is read like some sort of weird awkward dress rehearsal. There is a really odd and painful sort of Cyrano de Bergerac-like scene between the three characters that is just strange given the way direction handled it. Anyway enough details. The movie never gets interesting or funny. One of those movies you keep watching in the hopes it'll pick up, but never does.

BRING ON THE SEQUEL!
An enjoyable film, I Spy, brings to the screen the story of an unlikely pair that has teamed up in order to recover a stolen American stealth aircraft prototype which is to be sold to the highest (criminal) bidder. A U.S. special agent and the World middleweight boxing champion will travel to Hungary to try and get back the aircraft and bring the criminals to justice.
Owen Wilson, Eddie Murphy, Famke Janssen (who is GORGEOUS!), Malcolm McDowell, and the rest of the cast carry out their performances very well.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the humor, and the music are all good.
I Spy is definitely a movie worth watching, and though quite silly at times, it will surely put you in a good mood and provide for an evening's entertainment.