Reviews

The show started off as a heartwarming, often tear-jerking show that typically involved Jennifer Love Hewitt crossing over some poor, Earth-bound should to the other side after unfinished business was tended to. Pretty good stuff.

The show, however, has taken a turn for the worse in a lot of ways. First, the writing went south and sent weekly episodes in all kinds of supernatural directions. I mean, you had to suspend your disbelief in the first place to believe Hewitt could talk to spirits and then cross them over. The show now probably is better suited for the sci-fi channel with all the funky stuff going on (the possession of a dead body, for example, by a spirit who only wanted to use the dead and decomposing body to go to a class reunion). Very odd. Juvenile, even.

And Hewitt's weight (she's still very attractive, don't get me wrong) is painfully obvious and hopelessly covered by eccentric dresses that flare out from the waist to cover her backside. She wears so much makeup, you can carve your initials in her cheek----even while sleeping! Her hair always looks like it was JUST professionally done (again, even while sleeping), and has about three tubes of product in it at all times! I mean, honestly....who wears all that makeup (more eye makeup than Captain Jack Sparrow) to bed? Silly show. Cancel it, already.

For Chevy Chase fans, this film displays one of his vintage performances---right up there with a couple of his "Vacation" films and "Fletch." He and Dan Aykroyd form a great comedic duo with great chemistry that will leave you wanting for more.

The setting changes rapidly from DC, to Pakistan, to the former Soviet Union. Chase and Aykroyd are identified as expendable Department of State personnel, and therefore trained as covert agent decoys and tasked with an ultra top-secret mission deep inside Soviet territory. The newly appointed agent/spies don't realize they're decoys, but rather, think they're real agents on a real mission. Good stuff.

Together, their bumbling antics throughout agent training and their top-secret mission are good for steady laughs from beginning to end, as they find themselves playing the "accidental hero" role charged with saving the world.

Very scenic locations, some decent special effects (for the mid-80's), and some serious plot-twists amidst the silly humor enables "Spies Like Us" to hold the viewer's attention in-between comedic situations.