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I SPY This tepid studio product is supposedly based on the same-named 60s TV show starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby, but its relationship to that series is so tenuous, they could easily have called this thing Petticoat Junction or My Mother the Car and gotten away with it. Owen Wilson, charming when the role is just right (rare, indeed), is warmly relaxed as a second-tier secret agent, while Eddie Murphy, in his patented motor-mouth mode, darts all over the screen as his civilian partner, a boxing champ whose ego is larger than Brazil and Argentina combined. This sort of "buddy comedy" is long passe, so the real surprise is that Murphy and Wilson actually make a pretty good team, each actor playing off the other's strengths. But the project surrounding them is distressingly rote, a true snoozer that finds the pair trying to stop the usual Eurobaddie (Malcolm McDowell) from selling a stolen government aircraft to the highest international bidder. The plane, incidentally, is invisible, though viewers hoping for a Wonder Woman cameo will be sorely disappointed. 
OPENS WEDNESDAY:
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (animated).
Extreme Ops (Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras).
Solaris (George Clooney, Natascha McElhone).
Treasure Planet (animated).
Wes Craven Presents: They (Laura Regan, Marc Blucas)
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