My Spy

​JJ (Dave Bautista) is former special operatives for the military who has taken a job with the CIA and turns out being a spy is more than just shooting people and blowing things up. Such as killing any person with intel on a black market nuclear device is not the great idea when you need more information. Getting assigned with a tech handler (Kristen Schaal) he is reassigned to watch the wife and daughter of the brother who is out to create a nuclear bomb. Except JJ did not plan on the daughter, Chloe Coleman, being a combined force of spy wannab​​e with her own tech skills. Blackmailed by the young girl JJ must teach her how to be a spy to not blow his cover with the mother. Then things get hairy when JJ starts to get emotionally attached to the mother and oh that bad guy who probably was never going to show up does and then it’s time to pu​​t all the skills we were shown to work and get those jokes to pay off. I actually found this quite enjoyable and fun, especially because I had low expectations for it. To me I felt I saw trailers for this for years every movie I went to seemed to show a trailer for this and it was had commercial in online shows I streamed, usually to me a movie I feel that over saturated with marketing is either bad and they trying everything to get people to it or being a comedy every joke was in the trailer. Which turned out to be untrue there are some lines in the trailer that didn’t make the cut, though there was quite a bit that wasn’t in the trailer I found funny and it is sad I didn’t get to see this in theaters, damn you COVID-19, to me it would have been an even bigger impact on surprise to me than on my TV laying on the couch and would have once word went around probably cleaned up pretty well at the box office, now with everything heading to VOD in the next week and Hamilton (ugh) it’s most likely to get buried in the streaming world. I though Bautista and Coleman had great comedy together for their scenes which are what make the movie while the spy stuff goes by, meh, its there because it has to be. What is enjoyable and makes it stand out from many of the family comedies that tread similar beats is that it's not afraid to dip its toe into its PG-13 with a little darkness here and there. It's a shame that it never got its long delayed theatrical release, I would definitely give it a watch as family movie night or even solo just for Bautista performance, he has great comedic timing and pulls of the tough guy with a loveable side perfectly. This is one I would have paid $19.99 to rent and been satisfied with paying that, however, it is out on Amazon Video and watchable for free if you have Amazon Prime. B.