Spy
27/06/15 Filed in: Cinema
I've been a bit busy lately so the blogging has suffered. In fact I've been to the cinema twice since I last reviewed a film on this blog.
Last week we saw Spy. The trailer enticed me, and I'm not sorry I chose to see it. It's a comedy and succeeds completely as such. Melissa McCarthy is to my mind quite brilliant in the role of agent Susan Cooper (Coop) who, having for a long time having been kept in the 'back room', is given the opportunity to get out in the field. She is given express instructions only to observe and report, but as you can probably guess that that doesn't quite work out.
Last week we saw Spy. The trailer enticed me, and I'm not sorry I chose to see it. It's a comedy and succeeds completely as such. Melissa McCarthy is to my mind quite brilliant in the role of agent Susan Cooper (Coop) who, having for a long time having been kept in the 'back room', is given the opportunity to get out in the field. She is given express instructions only to observe and report, but as you can probably guess that that doesn't quite work out.
The whole thing is, of course, a send-up of the Bond genre, and the characterisations are larger than life, but it all comes together to make a very funny film. Not one for the children though, as the language is pretty near the mark at times.
'Coop' turns out to be a very capable agent indeed and in the process elevates the role of women in general, and non-skinny women in particular.
Well worth seeing.
'Coop' turns out to be a very capable agent indeed and in the process elevates the role of women in general, and non-skinny women in particular.
Well worth seeing.