I suppose since no one else has commented on "002: Agenti Segretissimi" on IMDb I should write a brief plot summary for it, but this movie barely has a plot: American, Russian and Chinese secret agents are chasing Franco and Ciccio around the French Riviera because they are in possession, unbeknownst to them, of a valuable formula (in other words, a McGuffin). It's really just a series of loosely connected vignettes and skits - and director Lucio Fulci, still young and inexperienced, lingers too long on each one of them. There are some laughs, even out-loud laughs (one routine is taken directly out of Abbott and Costello), and the production values are good, but the movie lacks pace. ** out of 4.
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gridoon202411 November 2016
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BandSAboutMovies1 May 2020Franco and Ciccio - yes the same comic team who were in the Eurospy parodies Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, The Amazing Dr. G and the sequel to this one, 002 Operazione Luna, are back, doing what they do best.
They're two simple-minded Italianos who get mistaken as KGB agents and hijinks ensue. Those crazy moments include a giant robot that can barely move around, a masked maid/secret agent who flashes messages to the boys on her panties, an assassination scene where the X targets keep getting moved around, a microfilm hidden in a tooth that causes all manner of issues and spies from America, China and Russia all chasing the two around the French Riveria.
This would be your standard 60's spy comedy if not for who directed it: none other than the man who would become the Godfather of Gore 16 years after making this movie, Lucio Fulci. Yes - he made a movie about spies and assassination and not one eyeball got blown out the back or front of someone's skull.
Believe it or not, this was released by Allied Artists in the U.S. In fact, it would be the first time one of Fulci's movies made it over here.
Mary Arden, who plays Nadja in this, was Peggy Peyton in Blood and Black Lace and would write the English dialogue of the film, as she found the translated dialogue too stilted. -
Leofwine_draca11 May 202200-2 MOST SECRET AGENTS is an example of the kind of film that Lucio Fulci was making twenty years before his horror heyday. It's a witless vehicle for Italian comedy act Franco and Ciccio, a kind of Chuckle Brothers for Italian cinema audiences, who bumble and burble their way through a preposterous plot involving them being mistaken for Russian agents. The humour is silly and only occasionally amusing and I found this lacking the broader appeal of, say, the Hill and Spencer movies, although there's a lot of glamour in the form of shapely bikini girls.