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50
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Instead of building sustained comic set pieces, it takes a machine-gun approach to humor. Without looking at where it's aiming, it opens fire and sprays comic bullets in all directions, trusting that a few will hit the bull's-eye. A few do, but many more don't.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
This movie may not be brilliant, but every now and then it's really funny.
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42
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
I'm happy to report, though, that even a dud like Spy Hard can't completely douse the stumbling Zen charm of Leslie Nielsen, whose genius is that he never quite sheds the illusion that he isn't in on the joke.
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40
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Empire
Sporadically funny, but never more than a sting of crude gags.
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38
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USA Today Andy Seiler
Friedberg, who previously made Nielsen's golfing video and rental car commercials, knows only the low road -- and gets lost anyway. [24 May 1996, Pg.04.D]
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38
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
Director Rick Friedberg (who made the "bad golf" videos with Leslie Nielsen) has crafted a dreadfully unfunny comedy that takes Naked Gun-like sketches and rehashes them without a whit of style or energy.
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38
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TV Guide
Nielsen's schtick is getting pretty threadbare by now -- his movies used to wring laughs from assaults on his silver-haired dignity, but after years of screen buffoonery, he has no dignity left to assault.
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20
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Los Angeles Times
It could have used several more passes on the screenplay to strengthen the gags and flesh out the characters.
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10
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Nielsen earns a few giggles with his big entrance and later on his even bigger belly, but he can't overcome the lousy material.
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0
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The best bits come in the first few minutes -- or maybe the jokes just seem fresher then.
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