MacGruber , out this week on DVD, yawned in theaters, and I think I know why: satires of spy/secret agent/man-of-action genre stuff are already thick on the ground, and have been since the ’60s. There must be something inherently funny about the Cold War if it gave birth to a “spy” like James Bond, who didn’t even do much spying. (Aren’t spies supposed to be, you know, covert? Did Sean Connery ever do anything but announce his presence everywhere he went?) And now that we know the whole Cold War was a sham anyway, we can’t shake the silliness. Maybe it was all one big, extremely preposterous movie, like these 9 spy comedies:
