I Spy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I Spy |
| Original title | I Spy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Betty Thomas |
| script | Marianne Wibberley Cormac Wibberley Jay Scherick David Ronn |
| production |
Mario Kassar Betty Thomas Jenno Topping Andrew G. Vajna |
| music | Richard Gibbs |
| camera | Oliver Wood |
| cut | Peter Teschner |
| occupation | |
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I Spy is a 2002 crime comedy directed by Betty Thomas and starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson . The film is based on the television series of the same name from the 1960s (German series title: Tennis rackets and cannons ).
action
Alex Scott is a clumsy intelligence agent with the BNS (Bureau of National Security). He is given the task of freeing a US pilot from a prison camp in the Uzbek Tian Shan Mountains. The pilot was first buried by an avalanche he caused and then riddled with bullets when he tried to rescue the injured pilot on his back. Before his death, the pilot had explained to him that he had sold an aircraft that he had stolen to the arms dealer Arnold Gundars.
In the meantime, professional boxer Kelly Robinson defeats his challenger Blake Lirette in Las Vegas, so that the next fight against Cedric Mills is planned in Budapest . Then Robinson gets a call from US President George W. Bush that he would be needed for a secret assignment in the service of the US government.
Alex Scott and Kelly Robinson are now supposed to carry out the next job together: secure the stolen stealth plane , known as the snap knife (in the original: Switchblade), which is owned by Arnold Gundars in Budapest, before it is resold. In Budapest the two meet agent Rachel Wright, who later falls victim to a car bomb.
While Robinson is in the boxing ring, Scott's invisible plane is found just as it is about to sell for $ 1.2 billion. When Scott intervenes and surprises the criminals, he is overwhelmed by the allegedly killed Rachel Wright, who turns out to be a double agent. Robinson comes to Scott's aid and they both take possession of the plane. Shortly after they start, however, they plunge into the Danube . The plane sinks, but they can secure a nuclear bomb previously attached by the buyer . Rachel Wright, who escaped, was arrested in Monte Carlo a short time later . In public it is not the two who are named as the savior, but Agent Carlos.
background
- The film was shot in Budapest, Vancouver and El Segundo .
- Production costs were estimated at $ 70 million. The film grossed around 50.7 million US dollars in cinemas around the world, including around 33.6 million US dollars in cinemas in the USA and 2.2 million US dollars in Germany.
- It was released in theaters in the USA on November 1, 2002, and in Germany on January 9, 2003.
German dubbed version
The German dubbing was done at PPA Film in Munich . Pierre Peters-Arnolds wrote the dialogue book and also directed the dubbing .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Eddie Murphy | Randolf Kronberg | Special Agent Kelly Robinson |
| Owen Wilson | Philipp Moog | Special Agent Alexander Scott |
| Famke Janssen | Elisabeth Günther | Special Agent Rachel Wright |
| Malcolm McDowell | Dirk Galuba | Arnold Gundars |
| Gary Cole | Gudo Hoegel | Carlos |
| Darren Shahlavi | Stephan Rabow | Cedric Mills |
| Phill Lewis | Tobias Lelle | Jerry |
| Viv Leacock | Jan Odle | TJ |
Reviews
The lexicon of international films judged: “A common buddy movie in which the partners initially dislike each other in order to then recognize their similarities all the more clearly. An action-comedy without momentum, the calculation of which does not work because clumsy dialogues torpedo the elaborate tension elements. "
Thomas Taborsky wrote on allesfilm.com: “In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, a real agent boom breaks out in the entertainment industry. […] In 1965 I Spy (in German: With tennis rackets and cannons) joins it, a series that takes a different approach to the genre. [...] The story of how the agent duo actually came about was never clarified. "I Spy," the film, tries to start right here. The series is fast, its realism and, above all, its claim are forgotten; There is not much left to differentiate between this flick and other films with unequal pairs. Just because the one mouth is always loose, the place of the event is an Eastern European metropolis and is conjured up with various high-tech marvels, one could consider the film for the comedy brother of " Bad Company ". "
Fritz Göttler wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Size matters - the stunts are loud and colorful and terribly complicated, a whole truckload of new road cruisers is scrapped for a chase and finally the bomber is heaved onto a bridge over the Danube. The city of Budapest is being hacked rapidly and ruthlessly. "
Awards
- The film was nominated three times for the negative award Golden Raspberry 2003: In the categories Worst Remake , Worst Actor (Eddie Murphy), and Worst Screen Couple .
- Eddie Murphy won for the acting in this and five other films, the Golden Raspberry 2010 as Schlechinger tester actor of the decade .
- At the Taurus Awards 2003 the film was nominated in the category Best Stunt in Height .
Web links
- I Spy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I Spy at rotten tomatoes (English)
- I Spy at Metacritic (English)
- I Spy in the online film database
- I Spy in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions Pro 7 afternoon - FSK 12 from Showtime at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for I Spy . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Filming locations for I Spy
- ↑ boxofficemojo.com: Box office income for I Spy , accessed September 30, 2014
- ↑ a b c I Spy. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 30, 2014 .
- ^ I Spy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ allesfilm.com: I Spy - series revival , the innumerable: cold coffee instead of cold war. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thomas Taborsky, accessed September 30, 2014
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Film review: “Rhapsodie für eine Spion”, January 9, 2003 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
