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Get Smart
Warner Bros. Pictures
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some rude humor, action violence and language
Starring
Steve Carell,
Anne Hathaway,
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson,
Alan Arkin,
Terrence Stamp,
Terry Crews,
David Koechner,
and
James Caan
When the headquarters of secret U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside his idol, stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99. As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS' master plan--and each other--they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried and his sidekick, Shtarker, are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. With no field experience and little time, Smart--armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm--must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day. (Warner Bros. Studios)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Comedy
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Crime
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Buck Henry (characters)
Mel Brooks (characters)
Matt Ember
Tom J. Astle
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Segal
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 4, 2008
Theatrical: June 20, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It’s funny, exciting, preposterous, great to look at, and made with the same level of technical expertise we’d expect from a new Bond movie itself. And all of that is very nice, but nicer still is the perfect pitch of the casting.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Andy Spletzer
Get Smart is action movie and spoof and, though it's often a little unbalanced, the ultimate result is a harmlessly entertaining picture.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The unexpected star is Hathaway, looking cool as a runway model in the role originated by Barbara Feldon, lithe as a (pink) panther, and displaying great comic timing.
80
Film Threat
Mark Bell
The movie is fun, and hilarious, because of its child-like whimsy.
75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Get Smart turns out to be a much more entertaining movie than its tedious trailers suggest. It's not going to redefine comedy as we know it, but it's amusing and briskly paced, busy with an engaging mix of supporting actors.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Steve Carell's portrayal of Max is just about perfect for the material.
70
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
This redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms.
70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
As for Hathaway, she's a revelation. Those eyes are still as big as Beamer hubcaps, but she's able to show more edge than her previous goody-goody roles have allowed.
70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Get Smart could have been smarter. But like the show that inspired it, it's still smarter than it looks.
70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Get Smart the sitcom was a one-joke affair and got tedious fast, whereas Carell’s starry-eyed dweeb has room for nuance, for growth, for inspiration.
63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie errs by turning Max into a figure of hangdog sympathy: "The 40 Year Old Virgin" with a shoe phone.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Mixes broad slapstick and off-hand one-liners in a sometimes surprisingly funny mixture.
63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's a light, silly instantly forgettable comedy peppered with action set-pieces and affectionate nods to its fondly remembered predecessor, including a gracious end-credits dedication to the late Don Adams and Edward Platt.
63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Max's even more fabled shoe phone also makes an appearance - and, fortunately for Get Smart, the self-deprecating Carell isn't shoe-phoning in his inspired performance.
63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Director Peter Segal ups the ante on the action, aiming for Bourne more than Bond, but the stunts grow frenzied and increasingly flat.
63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Bright enough, but stops short of being clever.
60
Empire
Tony Horkins
Despite a plot that should be simpler, Get Smart is as big on action as it is on laughs and works because it?s less a tired spoof and more a quality comedic adventure movie in its own right.
58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
For the most part it's dull, bland and unsatisfying: a food-court version of home cooking.
58
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
You never get the sense that the director, Peter Segal, knows where the funny is, whether in his star or in the story.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Get Smart neglects the laughs and amps up the action, resulting in a not very funny comedy joined at the hip to a not very exciting spy movie. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Remaking Get Smart without Don Adams and Barbara Feldon is like remaking "My Little Chickadee" without Mae West and W.C. Fields--the best possible outcome is disappointment.
50
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
It flounders whenever it tries to weave the real world into its fantasia, partly because it isn't really about anything other than making money, partly because the spy-versus-spy battle doesn't entertain the way it once did.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
All that's missing is the spirit and the anarchic humor of the sitcom created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. The result is an overdressed, carefully stitched scarecrow of a comedy.
50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film reunites Carell with his "Little Miss Sunshine" co-star Arkin, who, as always, delivers the goods, as do most of the other supporting players. Too long by at least 15-20 minutes, Get Smart is nevertheless a giggly summer movie.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Missed it by that much. Actually, the new version of Get Smart misses by a fair-size margin.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
This is a slap-dash effort whose producers threw money and stunts onscreen instead of the satirical gags and one-liners that made the old spy spoof so memorable.
50
Variety
John Anderson
Helmer Peter Segal's formulaic takeoff is neither fish nor fowl, not quite faithful to the show, but not quite bringing it into the 21st century either.
42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
There are many stretches when it's easy to forget that Get Smart is a spoof; it's more like a third-rate James Bond with pratfalls.
42
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
At least we have Alan Arkin playing the head of CONTROL. His drone and deadpan are a perfect complement to Carell's. But please, pretty please, let's not go for a sequel on this one, OK?
40
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
While the whole cast -- including Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson -- is game, too much time was spent coordinating chase scenes and explosions, and too little fixing a slack script that relies on bathroom humor and snickering sex jokes.
40
Time
Richard Schickel
That Max Smart is played by the admirable Steve Carell, who is desperately looking for deadpan jokes in all the wrong places, is beside the point.
40
Newsweek
David Ansen
In this distressingly generic spy spoof, it's not Maxwell who's clueless, but the filmmakers.
30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Rather than the laugh a minute promised by old comedies, Get Smart generates approximately one laugh per hour, and I can't remember either one.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Remaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a REALLY bad idea.
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