| | | All the action. All the women. Half the intelligence.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.33:1
Leslie Nielsen is Agent WD-40 in Spy Hard -- the hilarious comedy of high-voltage adventure, high-tech gadgetry, and slapstick humor. Nielsen, lured back to service by the agency's wacky Director (Charles Durning) is sent on a mission with the mysterious Agent 3.14 (Nicolette Sheridan) to stop the evil General Rancor (Andy Griffith) from world destruction!
DVD Features:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
French Language Track
Production Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
Chapter Search
1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
"Absolutely hilarious!" New York Post
"Very funny!" KTLA-TV, Los Angeles
"Nielsen at his goofy best!" LA Weekly
Editor's Note
In this spoof of effects-heavy action films and James Bond thrillers, Nielsen plays Agent WD-40, who gets called back into duty when a madman thought to have been killed 15 years earlier resurfaces.
Plot Summary
As the film's title suggests, "Spy Hard" is an all-out spoof of action and espionage films, in the same vein as the "Airplane" and "Naked Gun" movies. As with those films, the plot (about an armless madman attempting to takeover the world) merely provides an excuse for non-stop sight gags, puns, celebrity cameos and of course, film parodies. Some of the movies spoofed include "Speed," "Mission: Impossible," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Pulp Fiction," and even "Sister Act."
| Features | Production Featurette | | Theatrical Trailer | | Chapter Search | | Widescreen Version | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | French Language Track |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 7/5/2005 |
| Running Time: 81 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 17248 | | UPC: 00717951002419 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Miss Cheevus, is the director available?" ---- Dick Steele (LESLIE NIELSEN), to Miss Cheevus (MARCIA GAY HARDEN)|"No, he's married." ---- Miss Cheevus, in response. |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[Nielsen] brings the same spirit of deadpan comic earnestness to the role that he brought to his intrepid police lieutenant in the NAKED GUN series..." 05/24/1996 p.C3San Francisco Examiner 0 of 10
Part of Nielsen's appeal is the fact that, with his beefy torso, bright white hair, steady blue eyes and healthy North American look (he's Canadian), he looks like a straight man, and yet deep inside he is clearly a great big goof yearning to come out. When he crosses his eyes, when he sticks his finger up his nose, when he bares his upper teeth and scrunches his forehead, you can't help but think this is a grown man who looks like a banker and he's behaving like a lunatic. Sometimes that's all it takes to get a laugh. And part of the humor is in the character, a dope who thinks he's a genius. So many comic actors - Danny Kaye and Charles Chaplin come to mind - play characters who don't think much of themselves. They have to really work to make us laugh because they present themselves as figures of incompetence. Nielsen in character has so much self-confidence that just about anything inane he does is twice as funny as it ought to be. The best comedy here is physical but there are a few good lines. When Steele is presented with the dossier of a beautiful enemy agent, he is told "She likes easy listening and guys who share their feelings." When the jokes flag, there are cameos to keep you awake: Robert Culp, Mr. T, Ray Charles (as a bus driver), Fabio, Robert Guillaume, Hulk Hogan, Pat Morita and the pop psychologist Joyce Brothers, who tells a bad guy that he's "immature." The title sequence by "Weird Al" Yankovic is a priceless sendup of the openings of 007 movies, complete with silhouetted naked women floating around in some kind of primordial fluid, or perhaps it's just a big Mai Tai, stirred, not beaten. - Barbara Shulgasser
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