Spy Hard

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The legacy of 1980's Airplane! has lasted a long, long time, as this dopey, 1996 comedy demonstrates. Leslie Nielsen, who has made a fortune starring in most of these intermittently inspired spoof movies, plays a secret agent whose code name is WD-40 and whose supervillain nemesis is the armless General Rancor (Andy Griffith). As the battle rages and the sight gags fly (the entrance to a hospital and sanctuary for nuns reads "Our Lady of the Never-Had-the-Pickle Convent"), WD-40 is aided by the beautiful spy 3.14 (Nicolette Sheridan). As always in these things, there are plenty of parodying references to other movies (Pulp Fiction) and tons of cameos (Fabio, Dr. Joyce Brothers, and such). The funniest stuff takes place in the first few minutes as "Weird Al" Yankovic sings the title song. Other than that, this is pretty mediocre. --Tom Keogh

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Here's the outrageous comedy hit that blends high-tech adventure with high-spirited humor for nonstop laughs! Big-screen funnyman Leslie Nielsen (NAKED GUN 33 1/3, AIRPLANE!) is the hilarious Agent WD-40, lured back into service by The Agency. Teamed with the sexy agent 3.14 (Nicollette Sheridan -- BEVERLY HILLS NINJA), he's sent on his hardest mission ever ... to stop the evil General Rancor (Andy Griffith -- TV's MATLOCK) before he destroys the world! With high-flying laughs and high-voltage action, SPY HARD is the wackily entertaining comedy hit that has audiences everywhere howling!

Customer Reviews:

Not Terrible, but Not Great either.......2007-08-22

I'm going to have to agree with most of the previous reviewers in saying that this is indeed not the best of films compared to other spoofs out there.
Spy Hard, following in the footsteps of Date Movie, Epic Movie, Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, and the Scary Movie series, is a parody of several films including James Bond, Home Alone, Pulp Fiction, and even Jurassic Park among others.
It is a humorous movie... at times. The casting is good, though most of the dialogues could have been a lot better. What it comes down to is that they could have and should have worked on the humor much more.
The girls are a great addition; Nicolette Sheridan was simply AMAZING!
Short appearances by Fabio, Hulk Hogan, Weird Al Yankovic, Ray Charles, and others did nothing really to significantly improve the mediocrity of this movie.
Overall, far from being a masterpiece, it just might provide for an evening's entertainment if one is in a really silly mood and/or intoxicated.

aight.......2007-07-02

this was aigtg movie, idk , i liked it more when i was younger, the jokes get pretty weird sometimes, it isnt as good as THe Naked Gun series..

Physical Comedy At It's Best .......2006-07-07

This is indeed a great film for LN fans. Everything we have come to know and love about his movies are once again used in this film with laughs at almost every minute, they are non-stop. You gotta love the Weird Al opening song, that really does set the mood for the film and gives a hint of what to expect. Andy G. does a great job as the villian of the movie, it's good to know that he can poke fun at himself for the sake of the movie and it works! If you are a fan of LN and you haven't seen it yet, then you truly are missing something. If you love the Naked Gun films, then you owe it to yourself to see this!

Hilarious Leslie Nielsen parody. Hey - is Leslie related to Rick from Cheap Trick? Just wondering...Full of Hawai'i Five-0 vets........2006-06-13

Let's see; Nielsen, Barry Bostwick, Charles
Durning, Andy Griffith, et, al. Nicolette
Sheridan is worth watching by herself! And
Weird Al Yankovic, who was also in the 1st
Naked Gun movie did a good job with the
Soundtrack song! Durning steals the show,
almost, with his disguises to hide from his
ex-wife's attorney - especially as pieces of
furniture! Get this, Wrongfully Accused and
2001: A Space travesty!

excellent.......2006-03-09

Absolutely great! I love this movie and when I saw it here I had to get it. Delivered quickely. No damages. Overall 5 stars!

Average customer rating:

hard ticket to great entertainment for men.
And I Thought Godzilla Movies Were Funny...
Delightfully Bad
Secret Agent Chicks!
Babes, guns, action!

Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Starring: Ronn Moss , Dona Speir , Hope Marie Carlton , Harold Diamond , and Rodrigo Obregón
Director: Andy Sidaris
Manufacturer: Ventura Distribution
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00005Q2ZU
Release Date: 2001-10-23

Customer Reviews:

hard ticket to great entertainment for men........2006-03-24

these andy sidaris movies are the next best thing to the James Bond movies. the difference in these are that they show nudity. i introduced my friend to Hard Ticket to Hawaii which i first saw on video in the 1980s and now he wants to buy all of the Andy Sidaris collection as do i. i have yet to do that but i plan to. this is my favourite andy sidaris picture because of many reasons but one is the design of the rocket launcher in it. it is really cool.
[...]the scenery is beautiful and on this discs there are extras such as an interview with Dona Speir. also andy sidaris, the writer an director plays a small role in the film.

And I Thought Godzilla Movies Were Funny..........2006-02-25

This movie is absolutely hilarious. Perfect for anyone who enjoys awesomely bad movies. There are airplane pilots with numchucks, a diseased snake, a guy with a bazooka and at one point someone is skateboarding with a blow up doll. The lines in this movie are so terrible that you can't help but laugh. This movie is made by a director that categorizes his scenes with bullets, bombs, and babes. If you ever sit around and watch movies with your friends after a few drinks or just love stupid movies, you've got to have this one.

Delightfully Bad.......2004-01-17

How a snake was turned into a super-killer by being infected by "cancer-infested rats", I don't know. What I do know is that anyone with an ironic sense of humor will love this film! The acting, the writing, the stunts, the special effects--all choc full of intentional and unintential laughs. For an extra round of chuckles, be sure to listen to the earnest & not-so-earnest producers' commentary---the interaction between Andy Sidaris and his wife is priceless. If you liked "Showgirls", you will LOVE "Hard Ticket To Hawaii"!

Secret Agent Chicks!.......2002-12-15

"Hard Ticket to Hawaii" is the first of twelve (that's right, count 'em, twelve) Andy Sidaris "Bullets, Bombs and Babes" movies to be released on DVD, and as an introduction to the series it can't be topped. It's absolutely topless!

So, for a good stretch, are Playmates Dona Speir (March 1984) and Hope Marie Carlton (July 1985), who play supersecret agents Donna Hamilton and Taryn Kendall in this absolutely riotous take-off on James Bond. Except that even Bond never took as much off.

Frankly, recent Bond movies with their adrenaline overkill and obligatory explosions owe more to 'Hard Ticket To Hawaii' than it owes to them.

The plot, where it exists, concerns a drug-running ring on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Donna and Taryn are assigned to stop the evildoers, who are led by a Goldfinger-like leader who delivers contraband in a radio-controlled helicopter (a scale model, not a real one...guess the drug business isn't what it used to be on Molokai).

Somehow, the storyline changes from smuggled drugs to smuggled diamonds along the way, but who cares? Dona and Hope Marie are clearly having a good time on camera, are so appealing (even when they're really trying to act) and the movie is so absurdly funny that anybody looking for a little element like a storyline should have his head examined.

Our secret agent friends spend most of their time either running around 85% naked in khaki jungle short shorts, 90% naked in the jacuzzi, or 95% naked kissing the tanned, buff men in this movie, but they do manage to subdue the bad guys in the end. Somehow.

In the interim, we are treated to such unforgettable lines as "Let's hit the jacuzzi...I do my best thinking there," "I don't want to control your life, I only want to suck the polish off your toes," and "If brains were bird poop you'd have a clean cage."

We also run afoul of a homicidal skateboarder armed with a pistol and a blow-up doll (why?) and a transvestite who is spying on the spies. Plus any number of nubile women, none of them at all foul.

The most memorable acting job of the film belongs to a giant rubber snake (don't be alarmed) who provides an interesting subplot (much more interesting than the plot plot, when you think about it). It seems that the giant rubber snake has been contaminated by ingesting cancer-infested rats, and wreaks havoc on the smiling islanders by ingesting them. By far the most memorable scene concerns the snake's sudden appearance from an exploding toilet, giving rise to the shouldabeenaOscar-winning line, "Just when you thought it was safe to take a..." Well, you know.

Sidaris' light touch is evident in the fact that each chapter of the DVD is listed with a chart indicating whether it contains gunfire, explosions, or bare breasts. Sidaris is strictly tongue-in-cheek. The film contains no full frontal nudity and no adult language, just a lot of innuendo. A lot of it.

The Special Edition DVD also has a chapter of the "Andy Sidaris Film School" in which the Writer/Producer/Director/etc. Sidaris (Mrs. Arlene and Mr. Andy, actually) engage in some very professional technical discussion of filmmaking. Although they'll never be Kubrick, they are serious about making a high-quality film on a shoestring budget, and it shows in their careful and clever filming and their breathtaking location shooting. And they do give some relative unknowns an acting resume, to boot. Anyone interested in how films are made needs to watch this.

Be prepared. "Hard Ticket to Hawaii" is pure, sunshiny enjoyment!

Babes, guns, action!.......2002-05-23

This movie is simply incredible. If you liked Sorority House Massacre II (and I know you did), you will love this movie. It has babes, bazookas, bozos, and an intriguing mystery to boot. OK, the last part is stretching it.

This movie follows two women who work for a charter plane/cargo service in Hawaii. They become targets, or somebody they know becomes targets, or something (who cares) of some Evil Bad Men. Their Boyfriends (the women, not the Bad Men) show up, after flexing and acting like [fools] on their boat for a while. Within a few minutes they encounter a Random Killer doing handstands on a skateboard. The Random Killer makes a second pass and manages to wing one of the Boyfriends, but the other shoots the Random Killer with a rocket launcher. Very cool! Another nice subplot is the Infected Snake (very realistic, let me tell you) who shows up in a sort of surprise ending that left the entire audience stunned.

The director's commentary is pretty cool because it explains some of the scenes that would otherwise make no sense. They still don't make much sense, but the commentary is cool. The video quality is very good, as is the audio. The plot quality is low, as is the acting. There is no shortage of nudity and violence. Excellent all around, if you like this kind of [junk].

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Customer Reviews:

Not Terrible, but Not Great either.......2007-08-22

aight.......2007-07-02

this was aigtg movie, idk , i liked it more when i was younger, the jokes get pretty weird sometimes, it isnt as good as THe Naked Gun series..

Physical Comedy At It's Best .......2006-07-07

Hilarious Leslie Nielsen parody. Hey - is Leslie related to Rick from Cheap Trick? Just wondering...Full of Hawai'i Five-0 vets........2006-06-13

excellent.......2006-03-09

Absolutely great! I love this movie and when I saw it here I had to get it. Delivered quickely. No damages. Overall 5 stars!

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Spy Hard [Region 2]
Starring: Leslie Nielsen , Nicollette Sheridan , Charles Durning , Marcia Gay Harden , and Barry Bostwick
Director: Rick Friedberg
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00004RYJ6

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Spy Hard [Region 2]
Starring: Leslie Nielsen , Nicollette Sheridan , Charles Durning , Marcia Gay Harden , and Barry Bostwick
Director: Rick Friedberg
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005AXKR

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Spy Hard [Region 2]
Starring: Leslie Nielsen , Nicollette Sheridan , Charles Durning , Marcia Gay Harden , and Barry Bostwick
Director: Rick Friedberg
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

( S ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
ASIN: B00004VYQ7

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