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FilmPG-132002

I Spy

ActionAdventureComedyThriller

Directed by Betty Thomas

When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars,… From TMDB

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I Spy is a 2002 action adventure comedy film, directed by Betty Thomas, starring Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson and Famke Janssen.

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  • Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    This image enthralls me.. It looks like a still from an A24 film and also a page out of an I Spy book

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  • pang @birthbydrip.neocities.orgBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    happy halloween everyone! before I go out and celebrate, I wanted to take a quick look at the infamous '80s gore-em-up monstrosity Chiller. I gave it several loops for it to redeem itself and came up empty-handed... it's Z-movie I Spy with a big metal shotgun attached. link below!

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    BOTD Bill Cosby. Would be Stalinist to erase him from history, and that's not us, man. So: notable in the revolution in stand up comedy, co-starred in groundbreaking TV show I-Spy, & in Robert Culp's key #70sFilm Hickey & Boggs Great @kimmorgan.bsky.social take on H&B: thenewbev.com/blog/2017/04...

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  • Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    “If director Antoine Fuqua’s focus were Bill Cosby, this film would be about his success as the “I Spy” hero, kid-show icon, and pudding salesman and end right when the curtain rises on that first episode of “The Cosby Show”. If it were about Polanski, it’d stop at the premiere of Rosemary’s Baby”

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  • Roz @rozmilner.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    I tried to sneak into Jackass the Movie with a date in high school but they literally stopped the movie and made us leave. We ended up watching Eddie Murphy in I Spy which was not good

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    In memory of the great Vincent Gardenia, Tony/Emmy-winning & Oscar-nominated Italian-American stage, film, and television actor on his 106th birthday. Acclaimed for his roles/performances in WHERE'S POPPA?, LITTLE MURDERS, BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, MOONSTRUCK, I SPY, and more.

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  • SANFORD - New album "Microplastics" out now! @douibyorthst.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2026

    We covered the 2025 movie Exit 8, which is a spin off of the psychological horror I Spy game The Exit 8 from 2023. Come and listen to my many failings at playing the game. open.spotify.com/episode/5YQV...

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  • Liz On Occasion @danzierlea.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    #LateNightWrite Hi all! I'm Liz, working on #CourtroomGhost. It's a story about clones, dismantling the cloning program, and worldwide consequences. In my head it's Hamlet meets Jason Bourne meets I, Spy (the movie). I added the third one because comic relief is a vital part of this story.

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  • Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    “If director Antoine Fuqua’s focus were Bill Cosby, this film would be about his success as the “I Spy” hero, kid-show icon, and pudding salesman and end right when the curtain rises on that first episode of “The Cosby Show”. If it were about Polanski, it’d stop at the premiere of Rosemary’s Baby.”

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  • Marlon West @marlonweststl.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Sands appeared in a number of television series in the 1960s and 1970s. Including 1964 “Outer Limits” episode "The Mice", the 1965-1968 series “I Spy”, and the 1968 series “Julia”. Sands also starred in the 1963 film “An Affair of the Skin” as the narrator and photographer, Janice.

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  • Linda Hubbard @lindahubbardartist.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    I stumbled across this little foundling today. Now included in the subsection of the project Happenstance Urban Still Lifes: I-Spy with my little eye, something beginning with ‘A’ Alfred Hitchcock’s film poster of Vertigo. I have saved this founding for the nation. ©️Linda Hubbard

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  • S. A. Hunt @sahuntbooks.comBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    Movie idea: a serial killer that participates in kids' games with his victims. Hide & Seek, Hot & Cold, I Spy, Duck-Duck-Goose, Tag, Truth or Dare, 7 Minutes in Heaven (staring contest in the closet), etc. If you win, he leaves you alone. "You better chase me. You don't want me chasing you."

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  • Charlie 🏳️‍⚧️ @swageki.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    A fascinating haul today! very exciting to play this I Spy game and me and some pals were just talking about watching Lego Batman

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  • Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2026

    I wish I hadn't seen I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE so late in the #tribeca crush because its a super film that deserved me being way more focused. Thank god I will revisit it down the line www.unseenfilms.net/2026/06/i-sp...

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  • RandyLittlesMovies @randylittlesmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2026

    My ★★★★ review of I Spy on @letterboxd: boxd.it/IoS2J

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  • Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    Her mother likes action comedies and so, for Mother's Day we gave her the choice. She picked I Spy and on the basis of that our daughter replied "another OLD movie?!?"

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  • Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    I will say, as a parent, children do have their own definition of what constitutes a "too old" movie. And for Generation Alpha that includes "I Spy" 2002 so LotR is not safe from that criticism.

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  • R.J. Smith @ronnieraccoon.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    The first Mario movie was just an animated Nintendo-themed I-Spy book with like 12 total seconds of character development which was basically just "yeah, my dad doesn't believe in me either, Donkey Kong" and people are actually stunned that reviewers didn't like the sequel.

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  • Ben Baker (Actually Dead The Whole Time) @benbaker.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    The Bond theme to a film where 007 spends the entire time having a knee trembler behind some bins, here are the majestic Pulp with "I Spy".

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  • TubaPeter Sez Send More Paramedics @tubapeter.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    Archer is the most consistent Bond. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE is the best Bond movie. New 007 movies should be period pieces, like the I SPY reboot, but with more comical alcoholism + sexism. Like Moneypenny has the solution in the first act but no one listens to her.

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  • Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2025

    The thing about the new Final Destination is that it’s just pure silly fun which is what we want from FD. Elaborate, ridiculous mousetrap-like deaths we can cheer. Every scene an I Spy of potentially deadly instruments. Bodies wrung out like sponges. My god the film was just so…wet.

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  • The Spy-Fi Guys @thespyfiguys.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    NEW EPISODE: The Spy-Fi Guys are back with 2002's "I Spy." The film stars Owen Wilson as a secret agent and Eddie Murphy as a boxer turned spy. Will they get along and save the day in the process? Check out the episode below to find out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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  • Ethan @ethanrawkes.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2024

    You seem like a prime candidate for the I Spy movie and Where's Waldo movie a hungry media executive is certainly cooking up!

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  • Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2024

    My bad-movie-watching club just watched the 2002 film I Spy, featuring an actually-invisible stealth plane, so my theory that Trump remembers movies as real events checks out again.

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  • coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Big Education Ape: I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE… AND HOLY CHIPS, IT'S A BOND MOVIE IN THE BUSINESS SECTION bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2026/10/i-sp...

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  • Makkon @makkon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    that's fucking cool though! this show has basically nothing to do with a real circus, but if the elevator pitch of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream with the aesthetics of the I Spy books" piques your interest, I highly recommend it! the whole series minus the movie is free on youtube!

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  • Jake @purplepadlock.neocities.orgBluesky · Apr 6, 2026

    ok so like I haven't seen The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and currently have no plans to but if easter eggs are the only thing worth talking about in something then I genuinely don't know if it should be classified as a movie. It's basically an in-motion version of I Spy or Where's Waldo at that point

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  • Lots42 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 @lots42.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    The 2002 action comedy movie 'I Spy'. Throughout the film we're promised an international professional boxing encounter in Hungary. And the movie didn't disappoint. No fake outs, we saw a hard fought, hard won, crowded AF fight like the in-movie ads said. Artistic integrity.

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  • ThommyLA @thommyla.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Memories of many a film there from 1983-2002. Plus one guest shift there of non-stop ticket sales for BH Cop II opening while on loan from another Mann house. Also got to see it all decked-out for the Chubby Rain premiere as featured in Bowfinger. Last film I saw there was I Spy. Lots of Eddie! 🎬❤️

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  • bethingram.bsky.social @bethingram.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    We played the ‘character game’ with ours - similar to I Spy, but thinking of a person/character from a tv show, movie, the Bible, a family member (you decide parameters) - 1 picks a char., all other guess with yes/no ?’s. Correct guesser chooses next 1. We played that MANY times through the years.

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  • Zeb @zebdaniel.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    This film has all the drama you can imagine or want from a Colleen Hoover adaption. For being two full hours, it wasn’t boring at any point. This was another made in Georgia film so it’s like a game of I Spy.

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  • Christine @xtinextinextine.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2024

    I want to make some kind of scary story (photos series, short film, comic?) using the aesthetic of the I Spy books

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  • coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    Big Education Ape: I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE… AND HOLY CHIPS, IT'S A BOND MOVIE IN THE BUSINESS SECTION bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2026/10/i-sp...

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  • coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Big Education Ape: I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE… AND HOLY CHIPS, IT'S A BOND MOVIE IN THE BUSINESS SECTION bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2026/10/i-sp...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    The (movie) I Spy 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 5.7 (Movies Anywhere) Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis

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  • Derek St. John @derek117.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    The Grand Dame of Horror Barbara Steele is, thankfully, still with us. Her most note-worthy non-horror movie was a strong supporting role in Fellini's "8 1/2." Ms. Steele also did a lot of American tv like "I Spy."

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    The (movie) I Spy (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis Genre: (Comedy) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spy/

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  • Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    I SPY movie w/ Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy, 21 JUMP STREET movie, 22 JUMP STREET movie...The list of ill-conceived comedy movies from TV dramas is long.

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    The (movie) I Spy (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis Genre: (Comedy) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spy/

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    The (movie) I Spy 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 5.7 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis

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  • movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    March 24 2010 ROBERT CULP, versatile TV & film actor best known for the series I Spy (1965-1968) opposite Bill Cosby, dies after a fall in LA at the age of 79. Notable film appearances include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Hickey & Boggs & The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday.

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    The (movie) I Spy 1080p (iTunes)(UK) £2.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 5.7 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis

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  • Grandma @keepitsane3.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    He really believes he’s in a 007 or Mata Hari episode of “I Spy”!!! He’s making a fucking movie not running a country. I can’t wait until he ask the cameras for his close-up.

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  • what you fail to see, Mr. Pope @oliverstacks.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    it's not my favorite Eddie movie by a long shot but his performance in I, Spy is incredible. that movie should have been terrible but he was just like nope i'm gonna be way better than this calls for and it's great. he's the best

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  • Tokyoscarab, professional miracle worker™ 🙏📿⚡ @tokyoscarab.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    I don't just mean setting up and paying off things within a single scene. There are times where a bunch of stuff that's happening is being set up for future jokes and at the same time, previous set ups are being paid off. It's like if I Spy or Where's Waldo was a movie.

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  • Luke @luckwillows.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    13. Swallow. As gorgeous as it is upsetting, and deeply sad. Absolutely terrible marriage, dogshit family, horrible situation to live in all around. But what a movie! I felt a little guilty for joking to my wife that the ultrasound was going to look like an "I Spy" page.

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  • Iesha @ieshabewriting.blacksky.appBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    Rewatching one of my favorite comedies, I Spy with Eddie and Owen Wilson. This movie will have me in stitches every watch like it’s the first time. It’s not the best movie but it’s funny and fun AF!

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  • Powell Not Found Podcast @powellnotfound.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    The Naked Gun movie is a comedy I Spy for 85 minutes. #thenakedgun #liamneeson

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2025

    The (movie) I Spy is available today on (Google Play) for $4.99 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis

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  • David Sack @davidsack.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    #30DayMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Day 8 - A film I associate with a happy memory 🎬 I, Spy (2004)

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  • Joe_Ted_Pumpkinhead @joetedjerome.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    I think a lot of Eddie Murphy's later comedies are actually pretty solid (Bowfinger, I-Spy), and this is from Ron Underwood the director of Tremors, too! Time to find out if Pluto Nash is universally reviled coz it's bad, or coz it bombed. I feel like it might just hit my sweet spot #film #filmsky

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  • Dana Trashmouth @ostenski.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    all the set dressing in Steel Magnolias is so lush. this movie looks like an I Spy book

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  • shebly @sh3lbreeee.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    I remember hearing Eddie Murphy in the movie I Spy say "damn she may wanna braid that!" in response to seeing a girl with long armpit hair & instead of letting the remark embed itself in my fragile insecure teen girl subconscious, it just inspired me to one day grow my pit hair long enough to braid.

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  • RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2023

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyu1... Muse with an I Spy full of spooky and horror movie references!

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  • Kamurai @KamuraiTMDB reviews · Jul 27, 2020

    Annoying watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. I like Eddie Murphy, I usually depend on him to carry movie given he's such a big personality. Unfortunately the character he is playing is every bit as annoying as Owen Wilson and that is amplified as, like I said, Eddie Murphy is a big personality and this character doesn't call for any nuance. Malcolm MacDowell does a his great creepy villain vibe, and Famke Janssen ("Golden Eye": Xenia Onatopp) makes a great spy: I wish she…

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  • JPV852 @JPV852TMDB reviews · Nov 6, 2019

    Hadn't seen this since it was released on DVD and... pretty much remember it being as mediocre as it was back then. Normally with these buddy films, you have one character who is off-kilter while the other is more serious, but here you had both off-kilter. Had this been today, would've been a good opportunity to be a spoof of Mission: Impossible; cast a normally serious actor to play opposite the outlandish character. 3.0/5

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