I Spy
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 1, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The sex bits are flat, the racial innuendo is flatter, and somewhere, Cosby is having a Pudding Pop and shaking his head in disbelief. Read full review
38
USA TodayMike Clark
I cry for I Spy— or I would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-TV spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind. Comas are physical, not emotional. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Their (Murphy/Wilson) exchanges and interplay are so campy and over the top that I kept expecting them to pull out frying pans and start bopping each other over the head with them. I Spy is one just Stooge short of homage. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The execution is so dumbed-down, so dumbfounding, that sophisticated moviegoers might confuse it for outtakes from "Spy Kids 2" and "XXX." Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
An overblown clunker full of bad jokes, howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences. Read full review
30
SalonCharles Taylor
The movie is so thoroughly lousy. It's loud, brash and obvious, full of car chases and explosions and gunplay. Read full review
30
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Something lazy, slow, shallow, stupid, amateurish, unfunny, unsuspenseful, uninformed, unspeakably dull and witlessly written, directed and acted (the special effects suck, too). Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Even the handful of moments that are amusing feel recycled from old sketches of Mr. Murphy's. Read full review
30
Village VoiceEd Park
Though ample time is spent mingling Murphy's jabberjaw locutions and Wilson's curveball spaciness, the film leaves only the bitter reek of a botched chemistry experiment. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Moves at a glacial pace. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Stinker doesn't begin to describe this movie's character -- both frenzied and dispiriting.
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Exhausts you with its derivative stupidity, leaving you weak and bored and weary of comedy that's not funny, action that's not exciting, dialogue that's not clever. It's not even an adequate rip-off of the TV show. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Hollywood's Thanksgiving turkey arrives today - 27 days early - in the gobbling guise of the heavily hyped, brain-dead comedy, I Spy. Read full review
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Nothing is real, but at the same time, nothing is fake. Nothing is, period. You don't believe a second of it for a second, so banal and predictable is it. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Just plain dismal, an inexplicable mining of old, mid-level programming that has all the raging excitement of continental drift. Read full review
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