I Spy

20022002
PG-13PG-13
1h 37m

Famke Janssen, Eddie Murphy, and Owen Wilson in I Spy (2002)

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Action Adventure Comedy

A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.

Director
- Betty Thomas
Writers
- Morton S. Fine(characters)
- David Friedkin(characters)
- Marianne Wibberley(story)
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations

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When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful illegal arms dealers, and foil his treacherous plans for the plane. —Anonymous

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Taglines
- Attitude meets espionage
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for action violence, some sexual content and language
Parents guide

Trivia
Will Ferrell was the voice of American President George W. Bush when speaking to Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy) over the telephone.

Goofs
After Alex puts the pilot in Kelly's plane to sleep, he descends the plane to persuade Kelly to go to the party at 8pm, however, a steep descent as shown in the film is not only impossible, as they went from apparently 36,000ft to around 1, 000ft as shown on the altimeter a few seconds later, but would also make the plane exceed its structural load limit and disintegrate. In addition, it would make everything inside the plane weightless due to the negative G-forces.

Quotes
Rachel: I'm with B.N.S.
Kelly Robinson: Yeah, what's B.N.S. stand for? Bitch that Needs some Slapping?

Alternate versions
The UK release has 1 second cut from the film (shot of a knife entering someone's leg and then being removed) to avoid a '15' rating.

Connections
Featured in HBO First Look: I Spy (2002)

Soundtracks
Rock The Party
Written by Raymond Scott, Mario Winans and Michael Carlos Jones
Performed by Benzino (as Benzino)
Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

Top review

6/10

Good chemistry in weak spy movie

Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is a second tier American spy. He is tasked to retrieve the Switchblade, a prototype invisible stealth fighter, from Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell). Superspy Carlos (Gary Cole) is too recognizable to do the job. Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy) is a brash loudmouth champion boxer. Scott works with Robinson to track boxing fan Gundars before he can sell the plane. The duo is joined by Famke Janssen.

Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy are both great comedic actors. They have good chemistry together having fun trading punchlines. The problem is the serious story. The comedy works better than the thriller. I have to admit that I never saw the TV show. So I have no idea what they're attempting to replicate. Maybe it was an advantage to not have any expectations at all.

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Budget
- $70,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $33,561,137
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,752,803
- Nov 3, 2002
Gross worldwide
- $51,386,477

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Runtime
1 hour 37 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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