Sure, it's tempting to never forgive Kate McKinnon for being a part of Saturday Night Live's Aer Lingus sketch and swear off her stuff for life. But in the long run you'd only be punishing yourself and missing out on one of the top comedy talents out there.
That said, you can hold off beating a path to The Spy Who Dumped Me as it's no McKinnon must-see - but she's still the best of the fun in this ho-hum action caper.
Kunis' character Audrey gets the elbow - by text - from alleged podcaster Drew (Justin Theroux). She soon finds herself Samsoniting it to Europe by both accident and design as she and best pal Morgan (McKinnon) get mixed up in all kinds of skulduggery.
Any film that begins with The Scorpions' Wind of Change suggests a mastery of the knowing wink, but The Spy Who Dumped Me doesn't live up to its initial screwball promise - it's too long, too episodic and too unsure of what it's trying to be.
The chemistry between McKinnon and Kunis is class, so the decision to try to go all Bourne instead of more Blackadder is bewildering. And this just in: no-one actually cares whether Justin Theroux or Sam Heughan can acquit themselves in fight scenes; what they want is Kunis and McKinnon acting out every time they rock up to another rendezvous.
If it's gags you want, try Spy or Top Secret at home; and if it's bang-bang, Mission: Impossible - Fallout in the cinema.
You don't see Ethan Hunt trying to make people laugh...
