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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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John Landis
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Actors:
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Frank Oz,
Donna Dixon,
Charles McKeown,
James Daughton,
Tom Hatten,
Jim Staahl,
Svetlana Plotnikova,
Bjarne Thomsen,
Chevy Chase,
Dan Aykroyd,
Steve Forrest,
Bruce Davison,
Bernie Casey,
William Prince,
Vanessa Angel
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Duration:
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102 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)108.5
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Plot Summary:
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Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and in due course end up in Afghanistan, chased at hand the Russians, where they learn they are being inured to as decoys to draw completely the Sovet defenses. Two material spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet brickbat and test the new US orbital screen laser. The brickbat is fired and while heading for an American Borough, the laser system misses it's objective. The contingency plan for th... is grand scheme, as display a build abroad close the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd Out of sight Campaign find anyway.
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Big hair and shoulder pads
Ah the 80's... a time when big hair, shoulder pads, bands like 'Wham!' invaded the charts and computers struggled to add 2+2. This was a time when actors like Chase and Aykroyd where in some of the most memorable films. This is one of those films! If you remember this from the first time round you really should watch it again. It's comedy gold and will have you laughing all the way to the end. Speaking of the end, it seems to come to quickly... I want more! Rent it and you'll have a real laugh at how the world used to be.
A great spy spoof with some hot russians
Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd team up in this 80?s spy spoof where they are recruited as American agents, albeit incompetent and bungling agents for a secret mission into Russia only to find that they are in fact decoys for the real mission.
Without ruining the plot too much, the real mission is to do with testing a space based weapon system and accidentally starting the world war III. There are some particularly funny bits like their special agent training? watch out for the centrifuge scene. Personally I thought that it was too cold for the bolstering east-west relations bit in a tent in Siberia but I guess you would at least try faced with impending doom and a very attractive Russian. All in all a great action / comedy. A must see for all Aykroyd and Chase fans.
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