Agent for H.A.R.M.

(a shot of a beach house)
Tom: Xanadu, stately home of Charles Foster Manson.

Charles Manson is, of course, the serial killer who resided in California. But the rest is a reference to the line “Xanadu, home of Charles Foster Kane” from Citizen Kane, which is considered by nearly every film critic to be the best film of all time. While I did like it, I disagree. But that’s just my opinion.


(throughout the movie, Mike and the ‘Bots sing the James Bond theme, and quip about how James Bond would have used his special gadgets to kill a guy, or thwart an assassin, or so on)

I think it’s pretty safe to say that the James Bond movies are so well engraved in our culture that just about any spy movie seems like a rip-off of them. But, then again, Mike and the ‘Bots are right: James Bond was a lot cooler than the guy in this movie, and, had Bond and his gadgets appeared instead, this movie would have been a lot more fun. Of course, James Bond would have never gotten himself into such a stupid plot as this one (spores? What?).