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The Spy Next Door
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Jackie Chan's only movie aimed directly at kids, rather than families. It stars Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez, Amber Valleta (as Gillian) from Gamer and The Transporter 2 and three kids. Later in 2010, Chan made the much better-recieved The Karate Kid.It follows Bob Ho (Chan), a CIA agent who retires so that he can spend more time with his girlfriend, Gillian, who lives next door, and her three kids ( Nora, Farren, and Ian). When Gillian goes away to visit her father in the hospital, Bob agrees to babysit the children. Hilarity Ensues. However, a plot by Russian spies looking for a stolen secret formula they believe Ho has threatens to put the entire family, and the world, in danger. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: Chan's character, Bob Ho, is a secret spy disguising himself as a pen importer. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: There are numerous impressive stunts in the trailer and ads. They are indeed in the movie...during the opening credits, as a series of clips to establish Bob Ho's skills. Even more egregiously, the clips were not actually filmed for The Spy Next Door; they were all taken from Jackie Chan's earlier films. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Ian feeds leftover bacon to their pet pig. The bacon is really just "Beggin' Strips". | |
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Parental Fashion Veto | |
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Parental Fashion Veto: Farren tries to go out in short skirts and crop tops, but Gillian and Bob make her go back and change. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad Farren's biological father, who abandoned her, leaving her with Gillian. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Bob singing lullabies to Nora in Chinese. Doubles as The Cast Showoff due to Jackie Chan's classically-trained and seldom-used singing pipes. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_428197ae | type |
Action-Hero Babysitter | |
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Action-Hero Babysitter: Bob Ho, of course. | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Every single villain knows martial arts. | |
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Everyone Owns a Mac | |
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Everyone Owns a Mac | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Again, with using scenes of Jackie Chan's older films (including a scene from Armor of God) at the start to introduce him as a martial arts badass spy. | |
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Something Only They Would Say | |
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Something Only They Would Say: Bob susses out a spy by saying something Russian. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Farren does have a point that when Bob came over to their house prior to the movie's events, it was only to see Gillian; he never even spoke to the kids. It's really kind of a Clueless Aesop, though: we are given ample evidence that the kids avoid Bob like the plague, so how is he supposed to "speak to them" in the first place? If anyone's to blame, it's Gillian for never talking about the kids! | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Bob and Gillian almost kiss in the beginning but Gillian interrupts with "We got an audience", referencing the kids. | |
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Stuffed into a Trashcan | |
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Stuffed Into A Trash Can: Ian got stuffed into one by bullies, after the poor kid got wedgied. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_82fc5bdf | type |
Bratty Half-Pint | |
The Spy Next Door / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Bratty Half-Pint: Pretty much all of the kids. Even their own mother can't deal with them. Farren is easily the worst offender. Ian and Nora warm up to Bob pretty quickly, but Farren acts like a complete brat in comparison. Arguably it could be because she's a teenager, but she generally comes off as an awful person. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_8c23b321 | type |
Harmless Villain | |
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Harmless Villain: The main villain is more of a comical character than anything, not doing anything to pose as scary. Would qualify as Laughably Evil if his 'jokes' were actually funny. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_991af300 | type |
Poke the Poodle | |
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Poke the Poodle: The villainess literally takes candy from a kid. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The oil-eating bacteria would be very useful in the Gulf of Mexico or some other major oil spill - or as a slimming product. | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
The Spy Next Door / int_a220d528 | comment |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: A single mom leaves her three annoying children with her boyfriend, who they hate very much. What could go wrong!? Of course, Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_a60e3252 | type |
Rule of Funny | |
The Spy Next Door / int_a60e3252 | comment |
Rule of Funny: Though every Jackie Chan movie fight scene is under this category, there's also a scene in which Bob tosses a small kid no older than 5 up in the air extremely high, and she lands into her clothes. Of course, if you were to do this in real life, it would be considered child abuse with a 99.9% chance the child will die. Unless you're Jackie Chan doing it. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_a6fa41b | type |
Recycled Premise | |
The Spy Next Door / int_a6fa41b | comment |
Recycled Premise: The substance-dissolving MacGuffin and the spy with a Secret Identity and romance problems were all in Agent Cody Banks. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
The Spy Next Door / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Farren wants to be this, but obviously neither Bob nor Gillian are going to allow a 13 year old to be so. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_b0a529cb | type |
Extreme Doormat | |
The Spy Next Door / int_b0a529cb | comment |
Extreme Doormat: Bob acts as a pushover to the kids, especially Farren, with whom he has no idea is trying to run him out of the family, he acts soft and passive to the kids rather than strict and stern person in authority, and that the kids have to respect him as an adult. The only people he isn't lenient to are criminals. | |
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Wedgie | |
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Wedgie: Ian gets a pretty big one from his bullies at school revealing his briefs to the entire student body in the hallway. Followed by his wedgie, he gets Stuffed into a Trash Can. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_bfc84d44 | type |
Calling Parents by Their Name | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name: Bob notices that Farren calls Gillian by her first name instead of "mom". When he talks to Farren about this, she explains that it is because Gillian is not her birth mom, but her stepmom. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_c957b993 | type |
Nerds Speak Klingon | |
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Nerds Speak Klingon: While snooping around on Bob's computer, Ian finds some interesting files. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_ddac33c8 | type |
The Nudifier | |
The Spy Next Door / int_ddac33c8 | comment |
The Nudifier: Family-friendly variant as the oil-eating bacteria only consumes the villainess' shoes. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Gillian is capable of some rather offhanded violence when she thinks the kids are in danger, from dragging a guy away from her cab | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: George Lopez' character turns out to be a villain near the end. | |
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Two Words: I Can't Count | |
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Two Words: I Can't Count: When Bob meets Farren’s older teenage date, Larry (who is soon revealed to be a Russian operative, and whose beatdown by Bob leads to him revealing to the kids that he’s a spy), he tries to warn him not to get too close to her by pointing out she’s too young, counting a one-word number as two words: | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Bob gets a mini-flamethrower, which he uses to heat up the toast and bacon. | |
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The Spy Next Door / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
The Spy Next Door / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: The freshly-sprung main villain going through one lousy outfit to replace his Institutional Apparel after another. Although the Siegfried And Roy suit looked all right. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Even though Farren has trouble getting along with Gillian and Ian, she is nice to Nora, hugging her after gymnastics practice. | |
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