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Summary From Get Smart to the Austin Powers trilogy, there are a ton of hilarious movies and TV shows out there that parody the James Bond franchise. With their goofy one-liners, far-fetched gadgets, and nonsensical villain plans, the Bond movies are an easy target for parody. They even became a sort of self-parody during the Roger Moore years. A movie like Moonraker is so ridiculous on its own that it’s difficult to make fun of.
The movie kicks off with a Goldfinger-style theme by none other than “Weird Al” Yankovic, and it only gets zanier from there. Spy Hard lampoons everything in the Bond franchise from the globetrotting adventures to the corny one-liners. And not only that; it parodies a whole bunch of different movies, from True Lies to Home Alone, and features cameos from Hulk Hogan, Ray Charles, and Mr. T.
Dujardin has both the effortless charisma to play a straightforward Bondian archetype and the comedic chops to pull off a winking satire of it. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is jam-packed with great gags, but it also has masterfully crafted action sequences. This take on the character proved to be so popular that it spawned two sequels, but the sequels never topped the first one.
Carry On Spying moves at an agreeably brisk pace – especially for a film from the ‘60s – and it has a lot of fun wringing smutty humor out of Bond’s signature womanizing. Kenneth Williams gives a brilliantly funny performance as the film’s 007 stand-in, Agent Simkins, drawing on his “Snide” character from Hancock’s Half Hour. Carry On Spying doesn’t go for the jugular, but it’s an amiable riff on the Bond franchise nonetheless.
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