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    I went to see this over the weekend. It was very light, enjoyable
    comedy. With a bit of women's mud wrestling thrown in for good measure.
    
    The story line has Jeff & Jane Blue on sabbatical from "the Agency",
    raising their daughter in New Orleans. They're called back to action to
    thwart one of Jeff's nemeses from the East. Watching the two of them
    battle the bad guys is just good, clean fun. 
    
    If you need suspense, thrills or complexity, this film isn't for you.
    But if you just like action comedy with a cute plot and lots of
    laughter, this one works.

    re: -.1
    
    I'm in total agreement. It's interesting to see that villains are now
    ex-Eastern country military and that the newly free countries want them
    back for prosecution. Pay matinee prices and see it.

    Hmmm.  This got a bad review in the Boston Phoenix.  I might see it
    just for the opportunity to look at Dennis Quaid, though.  I think he's
    one of the best looking men in the movies today.  However, the review
    in The Phoenix said there was absolutely no chemistry between Quaid and
    Kathleen Turner.
    
    Lorna
    

Sometimes a bad review is a reason on it's own to see a movie. I don't rely
that much on 'expert' opinions. Here in Holland I get sometimes the idea that
when a movie isn't spoken chinese and isn't about great historical, social
events it can't be a good movie..

Donald P.

Spoiler alert:

Sorry folks, if you enjoyed this movie or want to see it with an open mind
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This film was complete and unadulterated rubbish. Not even entertaining for its
gross-value.
The characters were complete cardboard. The story-line would have insulted a
Nintendo game. The running gag "Hi Morty" - "My name is muerte" (sp - sorry I
don't speak spanish) was tedious in the extreme; a one-line gag dragged through
90 minutes. The villian ? An Eastern-european she-devil - ugly as a hatful - who
is supposed to be some cross between Mata-Hari, and a black widow spider !
Darlink, pleez. Vot is zis crapski ?

Everything about this film was wrong, wrong, wrong.

I imagine that this film was an attempt to revive "The Thin Man" type movies
of the 30's that starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. Please, please, please
tell me it bombed at the box office and that it won't be attempted again.

I don't think this has hit the screens in the UK yet. Guys forget it. Don't waste
ANY money on this. If it gets shown on Sky Movies demand your subscription back.
When it gets networked demand your licence fee back.

I suffered this on a flight from London to Sydney - I could hardly leave the
theatre ! I was tempted.

0 out of 10.

TKS (my initials, not abbreviated Thanks)

Phew, I feel better for getting this off my chest.

I don't know, I enjoyed it as light escapism...It should certainly not be seen 
expecting anything else.

It will probably do better as a video than in the cinema.

    
    Light-weight, light-hearted entertainment. As someone else said, see
    the cheap show and giggle a couple of times.
    
    Tony
    
    
    

My wife and I managed to rent it the other day.  We had to keep trying over
a period of many weeks, because every one of 10 copies was always out...

Mindless fun, and IMHO very good mindless fun.  The jokes worked, the
action was decent, there was absolutely no tension or suspense (this is good),
and we enjoyed it quite a bit.  Ok, the side-kick cop (the white one) was a 
little too much of a fool, and Morty got a little too focused on our heroes, 
but what the heck.  It was fun.

Now we know why it is always checked out...

Example joke (extremely mild spoiler, about the level of the previews or the
back cover of the rental box):


The Blues (Jeff and Jane) are sitting with their child in an open-air 
restaurant, and 4 bad guys take the table across from them.  Bad guys pull
guns.  Jeff says to Jane "Remember Istanbul?".  Jane nods, picks up the tray
from a passing waiter and splatters food and tray all over bad guys, distracting
them long enough for Jeff to pick up the table and dump it on them.  Jane
grabs the stroller and they both head out the door.  On the way Jeff says
"I thought you were going to use your gun?"  Jane says "You said Istanbul.
Pulling the gun was Havana..."

We liked it quite a bit.

-- Ken Moreau

    Just rented this - we liked it. Good, light hearted comedy - definately
    no suspense (which as a previous reader said, can be nice). Tom Arnold
    and Park Overall are definately underused. I kept expecting them to be
    other agents or something.
    
    I thought the running gag with "Morty" was pretty funny, the actor
    "yeeped" well...maybe you have to be in a "nonsense" mood (of course we
    watched this after Ace Ventura Pet detective, so maybe, with that
    comparison, that's why it didn't seem too silly - you can't get much
    sillier that Ace - which I also liked).
    
    Overall, a good rental, but not worth a full fare ticket.
    
    janetb.