🎬 Spies Like Us (1985): Cold War, Warm Laughs... But It Ain’t the Blues Brothers
There are movies you remember because they’re masterpieces. There are movies you remember because they changed cinema. And then there are movies like Spies Like Us . You remember it because Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are wandering around the Cold War apparently proving that the United States government will hand anybody a classified assignment if the comedy demands it. Directed by John Landis, the 1985 spy comedy teams Chase with Aykroyd as Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge, a pair of thoroughly unprepared government employees who find themselves being used as expendable decoys. [en.wikipedia.org] , [imdb.com] 🕵️ With Spies Like These... The joke is wonderfully simple. Take two guys who probably shouldn't be trusted with the office coffee machine. Send them on a secret mission. Point them toward the Soviet Union. And hope civilization survives. That puts Spies Like Us squarely in the grand tradition of the Cold War comedy, where generals are suspicious, bureaucrats are incom...
