646f9e108c A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind. Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side. This is a very very funny film that has gone by almost unnoticed. The plot is simple, all life on earth will be dead in a few years if Jim Belushi cannot get John Ritter, a milquetoast, that he has it in him to save the world. Simple. Along the way you meet a rogue CIA group dressedclowns, aliens from another world who want a glass of water and the KGB. I say this all matter of factly because that is exactly the attitude that Jim Belushi&#39;s character does. He&#39;s seen it all before and the hilarity comes when you take someone who has never had an exciting experience in this life (Ritter) and team him with someone that has had so many crazy and wild adventures that even saving the world is mundane. This is a great satire on our national security.<br/><br/>John Ritter is one of the greatest comedic actors of all time and Belushi is in top formwell. A perfect cast all around. What&#39;s really fun about this movie is how the characters change. John Ritter starts off a wimp and turns into a tough guy justBelushi changes from tough guy into a wimp! The cultural references to the time period are well placed (Cold War Era) and most importantly, the movie is unique and original. The laughs are abundant.<br/><br/>Overall rating: 7 out of 10. Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs.<br/><br/>John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper.<br/><br/>The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts, and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side…..<br/><br/>The film has no real story or steady narrative, just a series of sketches with Ritter being goofy and Belushi acting tough. At the beginning of the third act, they trade places and the sketches commence again.<br/><br/>It shouldn&#39;t work, it really shouldn&#39;t, but you cannot help but like this movie thanks to the two leads. You would think with a movie like this, Belushi would be ranting and raving at Ritter throughout the movie, but in fact, he takes his bosses orders and is quite nice to him all the way through the movie, albeit with a sarcastic tone.<br/><br/>Ritter is the everyman who is scared of his own shadow and doesn&#39;t like confrontation. Let&#39;s just say,when he gets the Micheal Jackson jacket from thin air (you will know what i&#39;m talking about), he grows a pair and starts to stand up for himself.<br/><br/>It is one of the most random movies i&#39;ve seen for many reasons…<br/><br/>Transvestite dads, pretending your hand is a gun, the whole alien sub-plot, flying pens, S&amp;M freaks, Jackets appearing from nowhere, winking milkman.<br/><br/>Nothing really makes any sense in the film, characters are random and double crosses turn into something else.<br/><br/>Just enjoy the banter of the two leads, and you will find a very funny buddy movie.
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