Spies In Disguise
U/A: Animation, Action, Adventure
Cast: Will Smith, Tom Holland, Karen Gillan, DJ Khaled
Director: Troy Quane, Nick Bruno
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This film was inspired by a six-minute short by Lucas Martell titled 'Pigeon: Impossible' but that's also where the resemblance begins and ends. This feature-length offering bears little resemblance to its inspiration. This is merely a big-budget offshoot that is disorderly in its narration and rather irreverent and careless when compared to other superior animation products. Put-on and frenetic, Spies in disguise doesn't quite hit its stride even where the jokes are concerned. American secret agent supreme, Lance Sterling (Will Smith), is inadvertently turned into a blue pigeon by precocious young science genius Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) - but that was obviously not what Lance wanted to happen.

The blue pigeon version happened because of an invisibility potion experiment deliberately turned awry. And Sterling wanted to be invisible because even his boss, Joy Jenkins (Reba McEntire), can't protect him so he has no choice other than that...The reasoning here is that Walter is a geeky pacifist who can't bear to harm anyone. So even his inventions are meant to stun rather than kill.