Reviews for this film from our members:
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Fantástica comedia presidida por una genial Melissa McCarthy, a estas alturas ya icono de la comedia USA moderna. Rápida, loca, consistente y consciente de sí misma, sus posibilidades y límites artísticos, es una fuente de carcajadas verdaderamente notable.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: With ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘The Heat’ behind him and the female ‘Ghostbusters’ on the horizon, Feig is making a legitimate, admirable effort to increase the visibility and complexity of women in mainstream movies. That he does it with such panache, while still crafting a summer entertainment as enjoyable and uproarious as ‘Spy,’ is downright applause-worthy.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: McCarthy’s constantly changing identities and parallel growth in confidence are mined for great comedy, but the film’s secret weapon is Statham
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: If Spy has a broader point to make, it is not about its genre but about its star. Throughout its running time, Spy feels less like a vehicle for Melissa McCarthy than a celebration of her.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Yes, Spy did make me laugh, so that means it’s good. I guess.
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Spy’ exceeds expectations and delivers a hilarious comedy that transcends baser humour for a witty, entertaining experience.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A silly, delightfully skewed, absurdly amusing diversion…
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The screenplay is sharp because it gets to present the prejudices of her enemies, only to have them humiliated at every turn by her competence. It’s surprisingly transgressive.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Does some wonderfully seditious feminist things while also being funny as hell. Finally, we are asked to laugh with Melissa McCarthy, not at her.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: While the first half setup easily exceeds the sluggish and tiresome second half, Spy shows huge potential before saturating the audience with annoying one note supporting characters and excessively wordy diatribes.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: So far, “Spy” is easily the funniest and purest comedic entertainment of the year.
- Oktay Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Finding just the right balance of madcap action adventure and delirious comedic excitement is the toughest task, one that few films have managed. Spy does it all with surprising alacrity with social responsibility mixed in for good measure.
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: …it seems Feig has a master plan to forge a new sacred path for female-centered films, and he’s willing to subvert all filmic conventions – comedic and otherwise – in order to create a new order.
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: Occasionally it’s a little too fond of the vulgarity for its own good. But ultimately its heart, wit and comedic timing wins out, making for one of the most consistently funny Hollywood comedies in ages.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- [New – 12/3/15] | Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: With a sound comedic premise and a brilliant rapport of vulgarity-laced barbs between both McCarthy and Byrne and McCarthy and Statham, it’s a shame Feig keeps everything at a crawl for half the film by buying into Cooper’s unassuming “cat lady” vibe. Yes it makes for the transformation from unsure pratfalls to cocky badass that much better, but the lead-up is so slow that I begun wondering whether I should turn the film off.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: I spy a winner…
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Melissa McCarthy plays it surprisingly straight in the blandy-titled James Bond spoof Spy as a whip-smart but socially awkward CIA office drone thrust into globetrotting intrigue when the agency’s undercover agents are burned by a notorious arms dealer.
- Kristy Puchko @ Spinoff Online
- Excerpt: Supremely funny, wickedly smart — and did I mention the action sequences are not just convincing but exhilarating?
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The acting is crisp, the action is explosive, and the dialogue is funny, though it undercuts itself by leaning harder on the scatological than necessary.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A broad but funny farce played with such machine-gun rapidity that you don’t have the time to groan over a gag that doesn’t work before one that does pops up.
- Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Watch your back, 007!
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: Formula slapstick and slick production makes a must see, but only for Melissa McCarthy fans.
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