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elissa McCarthy is Cooper doesn’t just protest, she takes immensely talented, matters into her own hands. She buys a armed with a stunning glam dress and reinvents her cover as a repertoire of acting skills. bodyguard-for-hire named Amber So, of course, Hollywood Valentine. But just like the other two sees her and claps its collective hands covers, Amber Valentine isn’t the real together, yelling “Make the funny lady Cooper (or, metaphorically, the real fall down again!” Spy is writer/director McCarthy). In the film’s final act, (and frequent McCarthy collaborator) Cooper claims her own complex identiPaul Feig’s attempt to save his friend ty, shedding and keeping elements of from a Jack Blackawkward and badian fate. In a clever ass, mouthy and conceit, he allows sweet. Oh, and McCarthy to trot there’s a nuclear out her staid, clibomb or somechéd usual characthing, but it’s an ters, only to abanaction comedy so don them in favor try not to care of something about the authentic. Had it MacGuffin much. not been for one The film is at painfully tone deaf, its best when unfunny, offensive Byrne and running gag, Spy McCarthy are would have been cursing at and damn good and insulting each not simply good. other. Feig uses his McCarthy R-rating to make plays Susan a comedy that’s Cooper, a CIA vulgar but not agent whose job is filled with… OK, to navigate misactually, there’s a She might briefly play a cat lady, but Mesions for superspy pretty funny dick lissa McCarthy’s gets a chance to shine Bradley Fine ( Jude beyond her previous film roles and play a joke. There’s also badass character in Spy. an unfunny recurLaw), with whom ring joke about a Cooper is madly in dick. That dick is Aldo (Peter love. When uber-baddie Rayna Serafinowicz). His whole schtick is that Boyanov (Rose Byrne) discovers the he’s a pervert. At one point, in a horriidentities of all the agency’s spies, fying physical gag, Aldo tells Cooper Cooper is forced to come out from his penis is on her head. What made behind her desk and go into the field. Feig and company assume we’d be OK Here, the film makes its first clever with this? There’s a subtle and appallgambit: turns out that Cooper was ing implication that somehow it’s OK actually highly rated as a field agent in because a woman who looks like training. She only chose a desk job McCarthy should be flattered by because Fine conned her into acting as unwanted advances. She tells him “no” his cyber eyes and ears. a thousand times. His persistence isn’t Despite the protestations of Rick funny, it’s vile, and in a movie about Ford, played to perfection by a delightempowering McCarthy, it makes no fully self-deprecating Jason Statham, Cooper is given her first cover: a dowdy, damn sense. Excise Aldo, and Spy is a flat-out winner. With his disgusting single mother of four. She’s also given ass, it’s a qualified success. specially tailored spy weapons, like This review first appeared in The chloroform rags disguised as hemorReader of Omaha, Neb. rhoid wipes and anti-poison pills hidden in a stool softener bottle. Her second cover is a woman with 10 cats. Boulder Weekly