Agent 00 - With a license to laugh at

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Movie
German title Agent 00 - With a license to laugh at
Original title Spy Hard
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rick Friedberg
script Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Dick Chudnow
Rick Friedberg
production Doug Draizin
Rick Friedberg
Jeffrey Konvitz
music Bill Conti
camera John R. Leonetti
cut Eric A. Sears
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Agent 00 - With the license hilarious (alternative dt Title:. Agent 00 - The license hilarious ) is an American slapstick - comedy from 1996 with Leslie Nielsen , which was then the spy movie genre, while at the same time a large number popular movies parodied.

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Dick Steele aka "Agent 00" is one of the best spies in the American secret service. With his partner Victoria Dahl, he infiltrates a secret facility owned by General Rancor, an unscrupulous military despot with world domination fantasies. Steele can destroy the facility and destroy Rancor with a bomb in his escape helicopter, but Victoria is also killed in the explosion, who falls down a cliff. The desperate Steele, who couldn't save Dahl, quit his job and retires.

15 years later, a new video message from Rancor appears at the secret service. He survived the bomb attack on his helicopter and only lost both arms, which are now being replaced by various, sometimes impossible, prostheses. The general has only one thing in mind: revenge on Steele. To this end, he brought a nuclear warhead into his power and chained Barbara Dahl, the daughter of Steele's partner Victoria, who was killed. Rancor tries to lure Steele out of the reserve and into a trap.

Despite various concerns from the secret service management, the director decides to reactivate Steele. He is immediately involved and wants to defeat his old archenemy once and for all. Rancor still needs a specific microchip to complete his rocket. Steele should deliver this to him in exchange for Barbara. Steele sets off together with the attractive agent Veronique Ukrinsky, known as "3.14".

After a varied odyssey in which, among other things, Arab terrorists, child agents, nuns and dinosaurs cross their path, they can track down Rancor in his headquarters. But the general has lured them into a trap and threatens to execute them all. Steele only manages to escape with the help of some prominent helpers. Not only can he free Barbara, but he can also take out Rancor, whom he tied to the rocket that exploded a little later.

Trivia

  • In the sense of similar slapstick comedies with Nielsen, the film presents an almost complete number revue of nonsense, situation comedy and gags. Alongside the main story - a parody of the James Bond - Franchise - parodies several other then popular movies. Among other things, In the Line of Fire (the mentioned unsuccessful mission of Steeles as bodyguard of the US President), Kevin - Alone at home (the child agent), Sister Act (Steele goes into hiding with nuns), True Lies (pursuit of the Arab terrorist on a Horse with weak bladder), Speed and ET (jump stunt of a bus over a gorge in the moonlight), Pulp Fiction (dance scene with Veronique) and Jurassic Park (dinosaurs on the beach). The original title "Spy Hard" is also based on the action thriller "Die Hard" ( Die Hard ) .
  • In the film itself, a number of personalities from the American television scene also appear in guest roles. Wrestler Hulk Hogan and psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers as Steele's helper in the final fight, Ray Charles as a bus driver, Mr. T as a helicopter pilot, rapper Tone Loc as a gangster, Pat Morita as a waiter and model Fabio Lanzoni as himself.
  • Musician and comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic also has a guest role. He appears in the opening sequence, which is reminiscent of the Bond films - especially Fireball - and sings the title song of the same name. Yankovic has already been seen alongside Nielsen in The Naked Cannon 1 , 2 and 3 .
  • The name of the protagonist Dick Steele means something like steel penis in German.
  • In the German dubbed version, Veronique Ukrinsky became “Agent Number Sex Sex - Dominique Steckrinski” and Miss Cheevus (derived from the English adjective mischievous , which can mean both “malicious” and “mischievous” or “mischievous”) became “Miss Favorable ".

Reviews

“The parody of plot patterns and genre elements of the James Bond and some current films is reminiscent of livelier and denser films by the former Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team only through the common lead actor Leslie Nielsen . Too little care in staging the comedy and shockingly few ideas mark this low point in the parody genre. "

“Tired corruption of scenes from hit movies. Conclusion: nobody dies of laughter here. "

"Agent 00 - license to die of laughing" often looks like a pompous Hollywood brother of the sixties cult series "Mini Max", like a collection of outtakes from the three "Naked Cannon" films. [...] That a chaos comedy with Leslie Nielsen can also be successful if it is not convincing in terms of quality is proven by the remarkable performance of " Dracula - Dead but Happy ". If she also looks like a close relative of "Die nackte Kanone", there is hardly anything in the way of a high-flyer - even if you could laugh a lot more heartily at Nielsen slapstick. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Agent 00 - With the license to die of laughing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Agent 00 - With the license to laugh away at tvspielfilm.de
  3. Agent 00 - With the license to laugh at kino.de.