Movie : Get Smart

Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp

Directed by: Peter Segal

2008 Warner Bros. Pictures Comedy

In this corner, Steve Carell, the sharp comic mind who gets sharper every week on The Office. Handicap: trying to update a 1960s TV series about idiot spy Maxwell Smart. Max's shoe phone was innovative back then, not so much for generation IM. Director Peter Segal ups the ante on the action, aiming for Bourne more than Bond, but the stunts grow frenzied and increasingly flat. What helps is Carell's inspired silliness and his teaming with delicious Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Would you believe they have sexual chemistry? OK, no, but they make an appealingly scrappy team. Verdict: No knockout, but Carell wins on a rock-solid technicality – he's funny.

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Get Smart Movie Review



By: Mirthquake

Watching Get Smart and Loving it This review could seem somewhat biased, as I actually worked on the film. I was a contracted artist on a team that designed and animated the computer screens and interfaces in the film. From Control HQ to Kaos Monitoring systems, every computer screen you saw was the work of our team.















I also worked on Transformers and Iron Man, in the same capacity, but I had a lot more “Hero Work” in GS, as we were working on GS and Iron Man simultaneously. So did I like the film? You Betcha. The cast, from pitch perfect Steve Carell, to the AMAZING Alan Arkin (“Nuclear!”), to the icy Terence Stamp couldn’t have been better in the roles... but the breakout for me was Anne Hathaway. I only knew her as the klutzy Mia Thermopolis in that Princess movie, and she was a wonder to behold, ranging from incredible ass kickery to true pathos, I believed her in that role... and she looks like a relation to Barbara Feldon.














There are some TV version folks who are Purists, to the point of being cranks. What they don’t seem to realize is that the original was lampooning the spy movies of it’s generation (Ipcress File, the Connery James Bond flicks), and was often played deadly straight. The new movie version does the same, but taking its cues from a much wider spectrum of spy movies from The Bourne Films and Casino Royale to Entrapment... even hints of Moonraker in there. Even if I wasn't annoying everyone in the last 20 minutes of the film (“That's Mine. That's Mine. That One too!

That's my screen! WOOT!” And giggling throughout with the jokes that followed.) This is the first film in YEARS that I wanted to turn around and watch again. It is literally that much fun. Which considering how direly afraid I was that it would suck going in, I was pleasantly surprised. I may indeed take the kids today.

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