Action/Adventure
90 min/ 1981
RATING: 7/10
When comic book creator Woody Wilkins gets the chance to help out the CIA he jumps at it. But he gets a little too into the role, telling his Russian contact – his beautiful Russian contact – that he is a long-time secret agent with the code name “Condorman.” He so impresses the Russian agent that when she later decides to defect she tells the CIA she’ll only go if they send their “top agent” Condorman to come pick her up. Woody is willing to help again…but with a few conditions. He’ll go, so long as the CIA agrees to give him a few special tools he’s dreamed up, that come straight out of his superhero comics!
The only cautions are of a minor sort. The beautiful Russian agent wears a rather clingy dress on the DVD cover but that is more risqué than anything in the film. In one scene she changes clothes behind a dressing screen and is shown naked from the shoulders up. There are a lot of fistfights, car chases, and explosions, all of the comic variety, with no blood seen. Younger children, particularly those under 6, may find it too much.
This is an action-adventure, romantic comedy, Cold War, spy, superhero parody. If you take it seriously this is dreadful…so don’t. As a parody it is hokey, cheesy, goofy, slapstick fun.
