Spy

Spy

Rating 6 out of 10

I broke my own rule about comedies.  I knew better.  It's just not a good idea to go to a funny movie at the early show with a mostly empty theater.  The jokes are just funnier with a theater full of people laughing instead of the one lady two rows behind me that laughs like a goof ball at EVERY joke! I saw this on a rain day in Mobile, Alabama with six other people in the theater.

Not a huge plot here.  A really bad woman ,Raina Boyanov, (Rose Byrne) has a nuke she is selling to the highest bidder with plans of them setting it off in NYC.  Somehow she has a list of all current CIA agents and can spot them a mile away.  Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy)  is a long time CIA agent that works in the office running the computer and talking to other agents in the field.  When they need someone to locate Raina, Susan feels she is the woman for the job since no one knows who she is.

Of course Cooper is bumbling and does everything wrong.  Jason Statham plays agent Rick Ford who is afraid of no one and wants to take the woman down against the wishes of the bosses.  Statham is actually pretty funny.  I like Melissa McCarthy.  I was a big fan of her tv show Mike and Molly for the first couple years.  While watching this movie I had to think another actress would have been better suited.  Not sure who I'd pick, but someone like a stockier Tina Fey would be great.

I laughed.  Had I seen this in a Friday night full theater I probably would have laughed more.  I used to like Rose Byrne.  Now I wish she'd eat a cheeseburger.  She is so skeleton skinny she is not even pretty anymore.

I was entertained.  If the trailer looks good to you then I"d say you won't regret spending your money.