Sleevenotes:

Bumbling Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are mistakenly trained as deadly decoys for a top secret mission inside Soviet territory to foil the nuclear arms race. Will they live and let the enemy die laughing? Or will the men with the golden puns return from Russia with bluff?

Review:
This is an Eighties film in every respect and being a Cold War comedy it's story has dated very quickly but that doesn't detract from the huge number of laughs it contains. This is one of my favourite Chevy Chase movies as it allows him to pull all sorts of faces and crack all kinds of jokes for the duration of the film. Dan Aykroyd (who co-wrote the story and screenplay) leaves all the big laughs to Chevy but plays his straight(ish) man role superbly while Chevy just does as he pleases. This is a well produced comedy with a nice slant capturing two great comedy stars at the height of their career's and giving them a load of funny lines. The inclusion of Donna Dixon and Vanessa Angel adds some glamour (a requirement in every Eighties movie) while a number of other stars enjoy brief cameo's. Overall, a fine comedy and a must for all Chevy Chase fans.

Funniest scenes:
Our introduction to Chevy hard at work watching an old Reagan movie.

Chevy plays the microphone trick - "There aren't any Paraguayan's here are there?"

The examination. Brave enough to use sight and even fart gags to the extreme and get away with it. Hysterical.

The accelerated army training - "You want some coffee?"

Chevy bluffs nerve damage in his left hand by fondling Donna Dixon's breast - "Look - no feeling."

The operation to remove the appendix - "We mock what we don't understand."

Chevy's interrogation by the KGB - "Let that be a lesson to you!"

Vanessa Angel appearing from her tent...

Chevy makes plans for the end of the World - "You wanna go out with a bang?"

Top lines:
Emmett: "I'm sorry I'm not myself today. I saw my neurologist this morning and he's..."
Girlfriend (interrupting): "You're not going to give me some bullshit like you're dying are you?"
Emmett: "No. Not now."

Emmett: "Would you hold my wallett while I take the test. There's a thousand dollars in there. Or maybe there isn't. You know what I mean?"
Examiner: "Are you saying I can take this money if I help you pass the test?"
Emmett: "What do you think?"

Emmett: "Did you hear that?"
Austin: "Yeah, it's a dickfer."
Emmett: "What's a dickfer?"
Austin: "To pee with."

Emmett: "We need a plan. Let's play dead."

Emmett: "Stop right there and I'll bring back the sun. Okay, this is my sister - you can all have her. I hear she's very good."

Austin: "For God's sake show some balls!"
Emmett: "I think it's too late to try and impress them."

Emmett: "If you let me go free, you may keep my friend's head for polo."

Austin: "Maybe your dick's not so dumb."
Emmett: "Got me through high school."

KGB agent: "What is your objective?
Emmett: "My objective? Well, I object to taken a girl out, you know, buying her dinner and then she won't put out for you."

KGB agent: "Every minute you don't tell us why you're here I cut off a finger."
Emmett: "Mine or yours?"
KGB agent: "Yours."
Emmett: "Damn!"

Austin: "It's 'Soulfinger' by the Bar-Kays."
Emmett: "They must be having trouble getting gigs."

Fletch UK Rating: 9 out of 10

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