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NUMBERS
Box Office: $33,105,600
VHS Rentals: $9,520,000
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CONSENSUS
Insipid and mirthless, I-Spy bares little resemblance to the TV series that inspired it.
CAST & CREW
Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen
Directed by Betty Thomas
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SYNOPSIS
When the Air Force's newest stealth bomber--complete with cloaking device--disappears, secret agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is sent to Budapest to find it. To Scott’s dismay, he is teamed with undefeated middleweight champion Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy), who is slated to fight in Budapest where suspected Stealth thief, arms dealer and boxing fan Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell) is throwing a party in honor of the boxers. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, action violence, some sexual content, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 37 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 1, 2002
Video: Mar 11, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Action, Adventure, Enemies, Buddies, Spies, Military, Secret Agents, Boxers, Weapons
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official I Spy Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Just dreadful. I don't blame Eddie Murphy but shouldn't Owen Wilson know a movie must have a story and a script?"
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"No aspirations to social import inform the movie version. This is a shameless sham, calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
 "A whole lot of fun and funny in the middle, though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"Too much of the humor falls flat."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"I Spy is an embarrassment, a monotonous, disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations. It's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"A loud, witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the TV series."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"Just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting. There are a few modest laughs, but certainly no thrills."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"The reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every year is because so many of us keep going and then, out of embarrassment or stupidity, not warning anyone."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"What's next: "My Mother the Car?""
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"It's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie, but it's entertaining enough and worth a look."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"For the most part, I Spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as one of Murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"As pedestrian as they come."
-- Annlee Ellingson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"[It] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie. Nothing too deep or substantial. Explosions, jokes, and sexual innuendoes abound."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
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"It's been 20 years since 48 Hrs. made Eddie Murphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day. But his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"It won't be long before you'll spy I Spy at a video store near you."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Murphy and Wilson actually make a pretty good team... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"I spied with my little eye...a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits"
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"If I Spy were funny (enough) or exciting (enough) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it’s trying to reap from the moviegoing public."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Fans of the TV series will be disappointed, and everyone else will be slightly bored."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Even if it is generally amusing from time to time, I Spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"While it's nothing we haven't seen before from Murphy, I Spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson have a cute partnership in I Spy, but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"A thinly veiled excuse for Wilson to play his self-deprecating act against Murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick."
-- Dan Fazio, CITYSEARCH
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ROTTEN 6%
Avg. Rating: 4.1/10 |
"Humor in I Spy is so anemic."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"An unremarkable, modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"An overblown clunker full of bad jokes, howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"I cry for I Spy -- or I would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-TV spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"The trappings of I Spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"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."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The jokes are flat, and the action looks fake."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"The action is reasonably well-done ... yet story, character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Banal and predictable."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"As the latest bid in the TV-to-movie franchise game, I Spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor."
-- Robert Koehler, VARIETY
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"Warmed-over hash."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "I Spy" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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