YMMV / Spy Hard

• Awesome Music: "Weird Al" Yankovic's title song.
  Weird Al: It's the theme from Spy Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard! [Weird Al's Head A Splodes]
• First Installment Wins: Of all the films that Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg actually had a significant part in writing — their credit on the first Scary Movie apparently being mostly for contractual reasons — this is the only one that was fairly well received by audiences (though critics still hated it). The fact that they didn't direct nor write the final screenplay — Jason's father Rick Friedberg did — probably helped.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The movie did okay in the States, bringing back a profit even if it was underwhelming, but did *huge* numbers internationally, especially in the UK, where it debuted at number one.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: General Rancor said to Dick Steele, while proclaiming what he believed to be the future of the Internet: "What's left of you will have to watch helplessly while I play Mortal Kombat with the entire world!" Eight years later Mortal Kombat: Deception, the first Mortal Kombat game to feature online gameplay, was released.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Nowadays, most people just watch this for Weird Al's opening song.
• Older Than They Think:
  • This film actually predated the first Austin Powers film by a year. However, most viewers felt it came across more like a fourth The Naked Gun film than a James Bond spoof, meaning that Austin Powers actually ended up feeling fresher than this film. It certainly didn't help the fact that they cast Leslie Nielsen as the freaking main character!
  • Like Austin Powers, the film opens with a flashback showing the lead character working with his female partner, and then said partner's daughter follows her into the spy world following a Time Skip (albeit Barbara Dahl ends up being a Damsel in Distress, whereas Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers was a Hypercompetent Sidekick).
• Spiritual Successor: This is supposed to be a James Bond parody but feels more like a fourth installment of The Naked Gun series due in part to Leslie Nielsen playing more or less the same character with a different name and different profession (a spy instead a cop).
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Bill Conti's score utilizes numerous parodies of famous movie music, including Home Alone, True Lies, ET, In the Line of Fire, and Speed.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously:
  • While far from a "serious" movie, even the most vocal detractors praised Leslie Nielsen for actually trying to be funny.
  • Being the master of parodies that he is, Weird Al sings the opening song with clear conviction and is regarded as one of the few parts of the film that most people can agree is actually funny.

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