Spy 2

Jude Law, a mediocre English actor, has a kind of debonair charm to him. It's no wonder that he was considered for the role of James Bond. There is a kind of classiness in his acting that defies logic. His acting seduces, charms, makes a woman want to go out on a date with him and then dump him just because. In the film, Spy, he almost seems to be *winking* at himself. He is obviously an expert at making women feel good about themselves and then, with a reckless choice of a gift, making them feel like ornaments. Luckily for the audience, he also makes an early exit.

Then, we are given the new hero, a plump woman with a taste for vengeance, fury, and cakes. Her disguises are more realistic to the spy genre. Altogether, she is a more realistic character. She complains about her love life, is really sick of pretty, double-crossing women, and also, over time, talks like a ghetto girl. The movie, Spy, then is a movie about transformation. It is highly relevant in seeing this trend in culture. White girls with stereotypical black attitudes?

She starts out as a soft spoken woman with dreams of possibly having a date with the Jude Law character. After she receives a cheap gift from him, she begins to suspect that he thinks of her as a tool, not much more. But when she suspects that he has been killed out by the impossibly bitchy daughter of an arms dealer, she finds her mission. It is to avenge the death of her Spy-double Jude Law. Her various disguises look like Mrs. Doubtfire, the woman in the Dr. Seuss movie, the mother of the cute redhead, and Robert De Niro's disguise in Cape Fear. As we find out, there is much of the psycho in her, her repressed anger finding outlets in cakemaking, woman-bashing, and loafing.