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Closer in spirit to the deadpan stylings of early Zucker brothers than the more obvious slapshtick of the Austin Powerslranchise, director and co-writer Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117:Cairo, Nest of Spies is a frequently uproarious send-up of Jean Bruce's long-running series of spy novels-a Gallic precursor to James Bond-and the seven straight-faced feature films they inspired between 1956 and 1970. Here, tongues are planted firmly in cheek as comedian Jean Dujardin steps ...

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