The plot sounds like fairly familiar territory for Chan, who is not a stranger to playing a kind of goofy good-guy who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a dozen fists of fury. His turn as a chauffeur-turned-secret-agent in 2002's The Tuxedo comes to mind. The plot is also more than a little like the 2005 Vin Diesel starrer, The Pacifier. And at least a half-dozen other films where action heroes have to play nanny for a day, and find the job no less daunting than fighting gun-toting assassins.

Chan once complained in an interview about typecasting and the kinds of scripts he keeps getting: "There was this one where I have to play a cop who takes care of seven kids, sort of like The Sound Of Music. Then there's one where I'm a cop who takes care of four people." Spy seems to be more of the same, which might be a downer for someone who also said he wants to "become a real actor, like Robert De Niro." Hey, Jackie, if it makes you feel any better, De Niro has been typecast more than a few times, too.