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The Spy Next Door – A film review

This is a review on Magnus Scheving’s only non LazyTown related production.

Directed by Brian Levant

Screenplay and story by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer

Screenplay by

    Jonathan Bernstein

    James Greer

    Gregory Poirier

Produced by Robert Simonds

Starring

Jackie Chan

    Amber Valletta

    Madeline Carroll

    Will Shadley

    Magnús Scheving

    Billy Ray Cyrus

    George Lopez

Release date: January 15, 2010

25 March, 2010 (Australia)

Synopsis

Bob Ho (Jackie Chan), an undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, decides to give up his career and marry his girlfriend, Gillian (Amber Valletta). First however, he has one more mission to complete: Gain the approval of Gillian’s children. Bob volunteers to baby-sit when Gillian is called away, but the operation hits a snag when one of the kids mistakenly downloads a top-secret formula, and Anton Poldark, a Russian terrorist (Magnus Scheving) takes aim at Bob’s prospective family.

Review

This film sucks. I can remember a lot from it and have no idea why I liked it.
Firstly, the kids in this movie hate Bob Ho for no reason. Sure he isn’t your father, but do you have to make life hard for him? That just triggered me. I always hated seeing the hero hated.
Secondly, the fight scenes in the movie are bombared by childish sound effects that are supposed to be funny. I guess when you’re seven it is, but I’m mature and don’t laugh at it at all.
Thirdly, it’s a Halloween film. My religion and country prohibit Halloween, but what sucks is that the film doesn’t even foreshadow it being October. Once I saw everyone in costumes and trick-or-treating, I was like- ‘Huh? It’s Halloween?’
Lastly – about 20 or 35 minutes worth of this 94 minute film are actually funny and possible to laugh at. The other are not.
The only thing that makes it good is Jackie Chan’s charm and Magnus Scheving’s performance. Not to mention the ending credits, which have bloopers funnier then the film.
But when you think of it as a film to have a good time with and not take too seriously, you can find it pretty good, if you have a mental illness.

Magnus Scheving’s website from 2009

In January 2009, Magnus crafted his very own personal place on the net. The link was www.magnusscheving.is. And the site isn’t up anymore since March 2011. Did you visit this website before? Have a wave of nostalgia if you did. The site featured images and videos of Scheving and also some ways to contact him. Anything a Maggi S. fan like me could wish for.

Here is an archived version of the website from 2011: https://theoldnet.com/get?url=www.magnusscheving.is%2F&year=2010&scripts=false&decode=falseScreenshot 2024-01-24 at 22-50-05 Magnús Scheving

You could also comment on the blog posts, and luckily if you frequently posted there and were a big fan of LazyTown like Ana Gonzales Muriel (she commented a lot on Maggi’s posts back then), you could also get a reply from Magnus Scheving himself.

Screenshot 2024-01-25 at 12-19-05 Videos « Magnús Scheving

 

There were 4 YouTube videos of Magnus on the site, and all of them are still up and running as of January 24, 2023! Can you believe it?! I sure couldn’t.

What’s funny is that none of these videos were uploaded by Magnus himself.

Screenshot 2024-01-25 at 12-18-56 Videos « Magnús Scheving

Anyways, the image page is empty and has no pictures of him unfortunately.

At the bottom of the page was of course, a link to LazyTown.com back in 2011.

Anyways, thanks for reading! See ya later!

Mark Valenti, writer and lyricist of LazyTown starts a new podcast

Mark Valenti was one of the writers of Season 2 of LazyTown and he also made the lyrics to these songs:

-Cooking by the Book

-Step by Step

-Go For It

-Teamwork

-Woof Woof Woof

-It’s Mine

-Playtime

-I Love Christmas

-Galaxy

In order to celebrate 20 years since production of Season 1 of LazyTown started, he started the LazyPod Podcast! LazyPooky [who works on this site] actually enjoyed episode 1 very much.

https://shows.acast.com/the-lazypod-podcast/episodes/lazypod-1-welcome-to-lazytown

11 minutes and 3 seconds long

Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson & Gudmondor Por Karason in “Behind the Town”

Magnus Scheving, the self-proclaimed “Inventor of LazyTown”, Mani Svavarrson, the man behind the music of the show and Gudmondor Por Karason, the man behind the puppets of LazyTown and voice actor of Ziggy Zweets in the 2004 TV show have appeared in a new (well, not exactly new.. 6 months old) official LazyTown documentary by Orri Guðmundsson, called “Behind the Town”. We get to hear Scheving and Gudmondor talk in the wonderful Icelandic language and we get to hear some shocking amazing facts you might’ve not known on the making of LazyTown.

English subtitles: