Spymate

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Average Rating: 3/5

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Movie Info

In the wacky Canadian family comedy Spymate, a superspy named Mike Muggins (Chris Potter boasts a most unusual sidekick: a gun-toting chimp in a three-piece suit named Minkey, who operates as one of the country's best undercover agents. Mike and Minkey must team-up to foil the baddies when a sinister villain, Dr. Farley (Richard Kind) kidnaps Mike's twelve-year-old daughter Amelia (Emma Roberts), a scientific wunderkind. When Farley plans to use an expanded version of Amelia's invention -- a groundbreaking chemical drill -- to take over the world, only Mike and his furry companion can thwart Farley's fiendish plot.

Rating:

PG (for some mild action violence)
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
Directed By:

Robert Vince
Written By:

Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts, Anne Vince
In Theaters:

Jan 1, 2004 limited
On Disc/Streaming:

Apr 11, 2006
Runtime:

84 minutes
Studio:

Miramax

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Cast

Chris Potter
as Mike Muggins

Richard Kind
as Dr. Farley

Emma Roberts
as Amelia

Michael Bailey Smith
as Hugo

Musetta Vander
as Dr. Amour

Debra Jo Rupp
as Edith

Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita
as Kiro

Troy Yorke
as Lightning

Barry Bostwick

Kathryn Kirkpatrick
as Betty

Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
as Fly

Taras Kostyuk
as Melmer

Benjamin B. Smith
as Little Boy

Malcom Scott
as Ernest

Peter Shinkoda
as Mountain Guard

Brittney Wilson
as Jules

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Critic Reviews for Spymate

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It's a half-baked movie that looks strangely dated (it was actually made in 2003), underfinanced and simplistic next to films with the same theme, like the Spy Kids series.

Feb 24, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Susan Walker
Toronto Star
Top Critic
So-so spy movie for kids featuring Emma Roberts.

Jan 2, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Maria Llull
Common Sense Media
...a tedious and thoroughly puerile ordeal.

Oct 28, 2006 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Your tolerance for Spymate is going to be directly related to your tolerance for animal tricks.

Apr 30, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
It's like having feces thrown at you - in movie form!

Mar 30, 2006 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com
Another chimp film from the director of MVP: Most Valuable Primate, and an enterprise so inept that it harkens back to the bad-old-days of dentist-film-producers looking for tax writeoffs.

Feb 24, 2006 | Rating: 0.5/5

Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies