The jokes come in sporadic volleys rather than the steady machine-gun pace of The Naked Gun and Airplane!, and, with a few exceptions, they are less truly aimed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2013

Sporadically funny, but never more than a sting of crude gags.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2013

As funny as Nielsen can be, like all comic actors he still needs the quick-thinking jokes and zingy one-liners to be genuinely funny.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 4, 2013

Spy Hard just comes off as a long commercial. And yes, that means most of the best moments you've seen in the movie's trailer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2013

More of a cinematic joke book than a real movie, Spy Hard hits you with gags faster than Henny Youngman on speed. Even when individual bits misfire, the unrelenting barrage of silliness can break down your resistance.

| Jun 4, 2013

Spy Hard is a loose send-up of the Bond series and other overly expensive action flicks, but after Hot Shots! Part Deux and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 who needs another action parody?

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Never mind that the smutty, high-tech 007 capers already wink at the conventions of the bikini-clad, gizmo-strewn genre. If the martini is shaken, not stirred, why beat it to death with a swizzle stick?

| Jul 6, 2010

The picture that will test the durability of Leslie Nielsen's lowbrow franchise, Spy Hard sticks closely to the Naked Gun formula. Not only is the formula itself wearing thin, but the gags themselves feel recycled.

| Mar 26, 2009

Like Hot Shots! there's the same mistaken belief that simply tagging other films will be intrinsically funny...

| Jun 24, 2006

Nielsen, with his expert deadpan and sense of comic timing, creates the illusion of humor -- for about 15 minutes.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 18, 2002

This movie unfortunately wastes a perfectly promising idea -- satirizing James Bond films along with any other pop-culture celluloid phenomenon that crosses the filmmakers' minds.

| Feb 14, 2001

You won't laugh hard at Spy Hard. And that's not because the jokes aren't funny. Most of them aren't even jokes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Filled to the bursting point with witless, sub-Mad magazine movie parodies, pointless cameos by a seemingly endless parade of has-beens, and once-hysterical, now stale jokes lifted straight from Airplane! and the original Naked Gun...

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

When Spy Hard abruptly ends after only 81 minutes, you sense that it has used up every last round of available ammunition. It was simply exhausted and couldn't move another inch.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000