As I noted in my review of this year's "Kingsman: The Secret Service," 2015 is going to be lousy with spy movies — and not just overtly serious spy stuff, but spoofs of the spy genre, too. This year, secret agents are the new superheroes. And the latest spy send-up is "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig's "Spy," a film which once again reunites him with Melissa McCarthy, this time playing a desk-bound office drone that is forced into active duty. The last time Feig played with genre, the result was "The Heat," an iffy buddy cop movie that I failed to connect with. This time around, though, Feig has found a winning formula between the silly and the serious, smartly housing an occasionally outrageous comedy in the strict trappings of a traditional espionage tale. This approach of delivering a silly comedy with a straight face benefits "Spy" hugely, and makes it an uneven but undeniably entertaining romp.
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