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Spies Like Us

With spies like these, who needs enemies?

1985 · 1h 42m · PG Adventure, Comedy
Directed by John Landis

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Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

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Landis never bothers to account for the friendship that springs up spontaneously between these two antipathetic types, but then he never bothers to account for anything in this loose progression of recycled Abbott and Costello riffs.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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The script is so patchy that most of the genuine laughs are squeezed into the first half; the rest is a rather tacky and confused extended joke about the nuclear arms race.

Stephen Garrett, Time Out
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There are seeds of something funny in the film's beginning and in its premise, but they are soon dissipated by so little sustained wit, and so much scenery.

Janet Maslin, New York Times

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