Spies Like Us

Rotten: There are seeds of something funny in the film's beginning and in its premise, but they are soon dissipated by so little sustained wit, and so much scenery. – Janet Maslin, New York Times, Jan 14, 2011

Rotten: Landis never bothers to account for the friendship that springs up spontaneously between these two antipathetic types, but then he never bothers to account for anything in this loose progression of recycled Abbott and Costello riffs. – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, Jan 14, 2011

Rotten: The script is so patchy that most of the genuine laughs are squeezed into the first half; the rest is a rather tacky and confused extended joke about the nuclear arms race. – Stephen Garrett, Time Out, Jan 14, 2011

Rotten: [An] irritating comedy in which Aykroyd and Chase play officials who are sent on a secret mission as decoys whilst the real spies do their work. Their inadequacy is matched by a jokey script of dubious morals and taste. – Film4, Jan 14, 2011