These amiable actors elevate what may otherwise have been a rather ordinary exercise in nostalgia.
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07/10/08
Get Smart (2008)
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Reviews Counted:201
Fresh:106
Rotten:95
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Get Smart rides Steve Carell's considerable charm for a few laughs, but in the end is a rather ordinary Summer comedy.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jun 26, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $130,246,343
Synopsis: Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked... [More]
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter Segal
Reviews for Get Smart
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticWhich words describe this movie version of one of the funniest television shows ever made? Terrible, puerile and a travesty are close, but not angry enough.
07/10/08
Top CriticThe Producers got smart with Get Smart would you believe, and with good reason. They decided to give the audience what it wants.
06/23/08
Top CriticThe hostile repartee between the characters is as ungainly as director Peter Segal's lumbering action sequences
08/26/09
It has at least five undeniable laughs.
04/17/09
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02/27/09
What do dithering tv weathermen do when they retire? They must take their lame, witless banter and their awkward timing to Hollywood to write and direct movies. That might explain Get Smart, one of the latest in a long line of humid, mediocre, tire
02/01/09
...a manufactured piece of work that's been geared towards the lowest common denominator.
01/29/09
Without Anne Hathaway, Get Smart might have been a one-note comedy; with her, it's super spirited and super fun.
11/09/08
Not funny outrageous or funny gross, but funny cute, funny nice, funny mild.
10/28/08
The movie is a time-killer without a killer instinct.
10/18/08
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10/18/08
Get Smart is happy enough to play for straight laughs rather than truly subversive wit.
10/18/08
Smart summer entertainment that retains the likeability and wit of its source material but brings it into the 21st century with a perfectly cast Steve Carell.
10/18/08
You'll have a better time if you don't expect this re-imagined work to resemble the original. The phone shoe does fit Carell, and he wears it well.
10/18/08
As a reworking of one of the great 1960s TV comedies, you'd think being funny would be its main goal. But you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.
10/18/08
Top CriticAnne Hathaway plays the straightest part, quite possibly well, we are not entirely sure. She is so incapacitatingly sexy we lost concentration during several of her scenes.
08/25/08
The film doesn't have the sharp hysteria of the series, and it gets a bit over-serious at times. But it's still a thoroughly entertaining film with terrific characters all its own.
08/22/08
We sit back and wait for the laughs. Which come pretty slow and infrequent, though Carell does his straight-faced best to act out the A-Z of Hilarious.
08/22/08
The film is about as funny as a 3am cold call, and if you are a critic you cannot slam down the phone before you have heard it out.
08/22/08
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November 21, 2008:
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In a move that will see him directing both "Captain Marvel" and a "Get Smart" sequel for the studio, Peter Segal has signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Bros. More...
November 03, 2008:
RT on DVD: Get Smart, Futurama: Bender's Game and the Obama DVD Controversy
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October 31, 2008:
This retro-espionage spoof is more giggles than satirical grit, and simply lacks the comic punch and charisma, along with the pungent Cold War flavor of the times that energized the original.
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