Spy Hard

Infobox Film
name = Spy Hard


caption =
director = Rick Friedberg
producer = Doug Draizin
Jeffrey Konvitz
Rick Friedberg
writer = Rick Friedberg
Dick Chudnow
Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg
starring = Leslie Nielsen
Nicollette Sheridan
Marcia Gay Harden
Charles Durning
Andy Griffith
music = Bill Conti
cinematography = John R. Leonetti
editing = Eric Sears
distributor = Hollywood Pictures
released = May 24 1996
runtime = 81 minutes
country = United States
language = English
budget = $18 million USD
gross = $26,906,039 USD (USA)
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:136311
imdb_id = 0117723

"Spy Hard" is a 1996 movie starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan, parodying James Bond films and other action films.

The title itself is a spoof of "Die Hard" which is never actually lampooned in the film itself. Fact|date=May 2008

Many critics panned the film; the film's gross domestic revenues were approximately $26 million. Fact|date=May 2008

Premise

The plot is the standard story of secret agent Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 (a play on 007) who, along with Veronique Ukrinsky, Agent 3.14 (Nicollette Sheridan), must stop the evil genius, General Rancor (played by Andy Griffith), from taking over the world. Rancor was wounded in an earlier encounter and no longer has arms; however, he can 'arm' himself by attaching robotic limbs with various weapons attached.

Title sequence

"Weird Al" Yankovic sings the title song and directed the title sequence. It is a parody of title sequences from the James Bond films designed by Maurice Binder, specifically 1965's "Thunderball", complete with multiple colored backgrounds, silhouetted figures, women dancing with guns, and "wavy" text. Additionally, an urban legend states that during the recording of the theme to "Thunderball", Tom Jones held the song's final note long enough to pass out; in this film, Yankovic holds it long enough to make his head explode. Originally, Yankovic had planned to loop the note to the required length, but in the studio, he discovered he was able to hold the note long enough that no looping was required. [ [http://weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ask Al Archive ] ] The sequence was later included on , although, for legal reasons, all names and titles had to be taken out, excluding that of the film and of Yankovic himself.

Parodies

* "Home Alone"
* "True Lies"
* "Pulp Fiction"
* "Jurassic Park"
* "Speed"
* ""
* "Sister Act"
* "Never Say Never Again"
* "Cliffhanger"
* ""
* "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
* "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

Cameos

The movie also contains many cameos, including Mr. T as a helicopter pilot in the opening scene and also Pat Morita as a waiter, Hulk Hogan, and Ray Charles as a bus driver amongst others. Thuy Trang also did a cameo as one of the Hawaiian girl-dressed waitresses at a bar who pampers the main character, Dick Steele, and gives him a manicure.

ee also

*"Airplane!"
*"The Naked Gun"
*"Spy Hard" (song)
*"Movie" series

References

External links

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*amg movie|id=1:136311|title=Spy Hard
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