Agent 15 (2000-2002)

Agent 15
Written by: Don Spira & Augusta
Costume Design by: Augusta
Produced by: Don Spira and Augusta
Directed by: Augusta
23 minutes, 2000-2002
It's a Chick Productions

Review by:Superheidi

Agent 15 is a seriously sexy, classy, and marvelous parody of the James Bond thrillers of the glorious and more elegant 20th century. Agent 15, like Get Smart, In Like Flint, and Austin Powers, makes fun of the cheezeball secret agent who always comes out on top. Sleek, sexy, and invincible, Agent 15 is different from all these other parodies in one very big way - Agent 15 is a girl.

Paige Brewster plays the catlike Agent 15, who in several short episodes vanquishes evil assassins and nazi-esque villainesses while managing to have perfect hair and the perfect boyfriend. D. Elliot Woods and Jimmy Dore provide some great comic relief as the head of the intelligence agency and befuddled assistant. You see, Agent 15 keeps getting in, and then out, of some pretty remarkable scrapes.

With the style of the old Batman television series but the more sophisticated cinematography of an actual feature, Agent 15 really deserves to be taken seriously. A sort of Alias before Alias existed, Agent 15 merits being recognized as the idea that came first. Disconcerting, however, is the fact that each episode is very short. Altogether, intro included, the entire film is only 23 minutes long, split up between 6 or so episodes.

Director/Writer Augusta is very in tune with the swinging sixties style of costumes and sets that isn’t tacky or overdone, while keeping a modern flair alive. Agent 15 herself isn’t a showy spectacle of period hairdos and language either. She’s actually quite toned-down and tough. Agent 15 is never sloppy or careless, however, and though she is a serious secret agent she still takes time to have her fun. Unlike Tarantino’s character of The Bride in his Kill Bill series, Augusta’s Agent 15 isn’t an angry and brutal warrior; she’s a classy lady who knows how to get the job done. Her understated flair for success and her subtle charisma reflect that of a Cary Grant more than an Agent 99. Agent 15 is the match for any man, good or evil, that exists out there in secret agent land.