Spies Like Us (1985)

Saturday Night Live alumni Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase appear on film together for the first time as Austin Milbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume, respectively, in this hilarious spy/adventure spoof. Austin and Emmett are two dopey businessmen who decide they want to be spies, even though they have no experience in that area. The dumb duo take the CIA's admissions test...and are busted for cheating. Nevertheless, the pair are employed as spies anyway--unaware that the true reason they've been hired is to serve as a smokescreen for a band of real spies who are on an important mission. Soon the Russians are after the nitwi...
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ts, and a potential world war hangs in the balance.
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Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent material, both men keep taking service exams in an effort to win promotion. Caught cheating on their latest round of tests, Austin and Emmett expect to be fired but are instead made full field agents and ushered into intense training. Little do they know that it's all a ruse and that they're about to be dumped in Pakistan to t...
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hrow Russian spies off the scent of two real agents with an important clandestine assignment. A spoof of the "road" pictures popularized by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, the film features a cameo by the latter as his golf-playing self.
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Emmett Fitz Hume en Austin Millbarge zijn twee C.I.A.-spionnen die nog nooit daadwerkelijk een missie hebben volbracht. Zij zitten aan hun bureau in Washington D.C. te fantaseren over hoe het zou zijn om op een spionage-missie te gaan. Tot hun eigen verbazing worden juist zij geselecteerd om de wereld te redden van een nucleaire ramp. Samenwerken zal niet makkelijk zijn want de heren mogen elkaar niet erg graag. Om hun missie tot een goed einde te brengen, moeten ze via Afganistan de Sovjet Unie binnen zien te dringen. Natuurlijk worden zij gedurende hun hele reis achterna gezeten door Russische militairen. Na me...
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erdere malen door het oog van de naald gekropen te zijn, komen zij tot de conclusie dat zij door de C.I.A. zijn gebruikt om de aandacht van de echte spionnen af te leiden.
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