Spy Hard

Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Marcia Gay Harden, et al.

Leslie Nielsen is agent WD-40, a.k.a. Steele, Dick Steele, in Spy Hard, a comedy of high-voltage adventure, high-tech gadgetry, and lowbrow humor. Steele, lured back to active service by the agency's director is the only man who can stop the evil General Rancor. Rancor, a malevolent madman presumed dead after losing two limbs in an explosive altercation with Steele fifteen years earlier, is alive. He's mad as hell, unarmed, but still dangerous, and Steele is the only man who can get a leg up on him to stop him. Steele joins forces with the mysterious and beautiful Agent 3.14 to thwart his old nemesis' diabolical scheme for global power. Together they elude Rancor's henchmen, escape speeding vehicles, evade kidnap attempts as they make their way to General Rancor's lair.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 717951002419
• Release Date: July 2005
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• Director: Rick Friedberg
• Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick, John Ales, Andy Griffith, Elya Baskin, Mason Gamble, Carlos Lauchu, Stephanie Romanov
• Runtime: 1 hour, 21 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.7" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

"Leave me alone, I'm an unarmed man".

Andy Griffith saves what little there is to this unabashed spy spoof. You may remember Andy in several TV series as Mayberry R.F.D. and Matlock. Andy playing General Rancor in this film is spoofing General Midwinter (Ed Begley) in “Billion Dollar Brain” (1967). Look it up. The standard story is that General Rancor will destroy the world once he gets his computer chip, the same chip that cannot be destroyed, as it can cure world hunger. Of course, there is an imprisoned father scientist being sought by an overtly s-e-x-y daughter who incorporates the help of Dick Steele, 'Agent WD-40' (Leslie Nielsen), a slippery agent.