Spy

Melissa McCarthy is a kind of CIA spy handler who steps up as a spy when the operative she is handling is murdered in the field.

'Spy' is obviously modelled on the James Bond franchise from its prelude scene through its opening and closing credits. It's success as a comedy is partly that the performances are played straight rather than deliberately for the laughs although the film does occasionally drift into the current fad for gross-out humour.

Very entertaining.
★★★1/2