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I've been pretty skeptical while writing about trailers for the second Kingsman movie — I know the film's a satire, but its trailers always make the film seem to strike such a strange balance between buying into spy tropes and actually critiquing them. But I ended up watching the original Kingsman for the first time the other week, and suddenly I see why that is: that's exactly what the film is like, and it somehow pulls it off.

Kingsman (the original, at least) is primarily interested in being a fun spy movie. But the way it goes about that is by winking and nodding at all the recognizable beats and tropes it's going through. That let's it get away with doing all kinds of things that would normally feel tired — it knows what we want out...

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