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  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Fists fly and the fighting gets down and dirty when undefeated middle-weight champion Kelly Robinson (Murphy) finally meets his match, Bureau of National Security super-agent Alex Scott (Wilson), in this hilarious adventure. It's hate at first sight when the two are unwittingly paired up to track down the Air Force's missing stealth bom...

Directed By: Betty Thomas

Written By: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley, Jay Scherick, David Ronn

  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 37 m

I Spy

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
35
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 63 User Ratings
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Summary Fists fly and the fighting gets down and dirty when undefeated middle-weight champion Kelly Robinson (Murphy) finally meets his match, Bureau of National Security super-agent Alex Scott (Wilson), in this hilarious adventure. It's hate at first sight when the two are unwittingly paired up to track down the Air Force's missing stealth bom...

Directed By: Betty Thomas

Written By: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley, Jay Scherick, David Ronn

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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10% Positive
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42% Mixed
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75
A loose, lighthearted romp that's a notch above the usual buddy comedies.
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60
No less than four screenwriters are credited, yet the script is filled with the usual clichés (hello, red digital readout!) and supposed twists that can be seen a mile away.
By Michael Dequina FULL REVIEW

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29% Positive
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19% Mixed
12 Ratings
52% Negative
33 Ratings

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50
TV's ''I Spy'' knew how to swing. The movie 'I Spy knows only how to scramble and string together moments of Murphy braggadocio and Wilson stoner-ocity, and the sweat shows.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
40
The real problem with the new film, however, is a certain lack of chemistry between the leads; Wilson is game, as always, but his part is seriously underwritten, and while Murphy raises trash talking to the level of a fine art, he seems to be operating in another movie altogether.
By Steve Simels FULL REVIEW
38
The sex bits are flat, the racial innuendo is flatter, and somewhere, Cosby is having a Pudding Pop and shaking his head in disbelief.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
30
Something lazy, slow, shallow, stupid, amateurish, unfunny, unsuspenseful, uninformed, unspeakably dull and witlessly written, directed and acted (the special effects suck, too).
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
20
Nothing is real, but at the same time, nothing is fake. Nothing is, period. You don't believe a second of it for a second, so banal and predictable is it.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, Tall Trees Productions, C-2 Pictures, Sheldon Leonard Productions
Release Date Nov 1, 2002
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Attitude meets espionage
Website http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/ispy/
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Awards

Razzie Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
World Stunt Awards
• 1 Nomination

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