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I Spy (2002)

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Eddie Murphy, Famke Janssen, Gary Cole

Based on the 1960's television series I Spy. A professional athlete (boxer - Eddie Murphy) has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Release Date: Nov 01, 2002
DVD Release Date: Mar 11, 2003

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11 days ago
Eddie Murphy just annoyed the hell out of me. Damn he was annoying. I would much rather spend the entire day with Chris Rock and Gilbert Gottfried than spend 10 minutes with Eddie Murphy's character from this movie. His stand ups are great, his movie... (read more)
16 days ago
Film d'action tout en étant idiot et comique !
24 days ago
I'm not familiar with the original TV series this was based on, but I feel that this was one of the last (if not THE last) good roles I enjoyed seeing Eddie Murphy in. What followed after this (in no specific order) was 'Meet Dave', 'Norbit', 'The Ad... (read more)
27 days ago
I found it surprisingly funny, even if it was cheesy and a bit young
46 days ago
a good pairing or murphy and wilson not as good a back and forth as with jackie chan but its ok

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2590 days ago
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Even the usually intense Malcolm McDowell doesn't have much spark: His main role is to press the remote control button that makes the stealth plane disappear and reappear, perhaps a foreshadowing of I Spy's cable-television future.
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2590 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which Wilson and Murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie.
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2591 days ago
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
I Spy something lazy, slow, shallow, stupid, amateurish, unfunny, unsuspenseful, uninformed, unspeakably dull and witlessly written, directed and acted.
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