Review of My Spy

My Spy (2020)
7/10
Fun Formula Light Comedy
2 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
WWE and Marvel fans will recognize Dave Bautista who here is part of a CIA team keeping a watch on a family that is holding secrets the bad guys are after. While this is a bit formula, it has funny moments and is fun to watch. Let me try to summarize the plot.

JJ and a CIA Tech. partner are assigned by CIA Boss David Kim (Ken Jeong) to watch single mom and little girl who are unknowing targets in espionage intrigue. The little girl wants to be a spy. JJ mistakenly gets involved with the little girl whose trying to control him and manipulate him into a relationship in her and her moms life.

There is plenty of good humor to go around and the physical comedy is kind of predictable. It is a good formula comedy but the pacing and the cast are entertaining. While there is no way it is an outstanding film, it is a pleasant film which does make a few twists and turns that are flat out funny.

Towards the end, JJ comes clean with the mom about why he is there, and then by coincidence the bad guys find them and try to get the secrets away from them. This is where JJ's tech does a classic Barney Fife (Don Knotts) type of thing with some of their guns to stop the bad guys. Then it all works out with a good ending. The CIA actually looks a little smarter at the end, unlike earlier in the film when they look a little bit bumbling.

There is the neighboring gay couple who are not what they seem either. In fact when we find out by them, the explanation of who they are is funny and a bit confusing.
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