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:36
Fresh:19
Rotten:17
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 - 14 (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 CriticAs 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 CriticThis is a spy comedy which seems entirely unaware of the new genre of Jack Bauer or Jason Bourne, and instead looks more like a Roger Moore-era 007 knockoff.
08/22/08
Top CriticFrom this distance it looks like a rejected chapter from the Naked Gun franchise, and infinitely more wooden.
08/22/08
Top CriticDespite 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.
08/22/08
Top CriticOne of the more pleasant surprises of the year.
06/23/08
Top CriticRather than the laugh a minute promised by old comedies, Get Smart generates approximately one laugh per hour, and I can't remember either one.
06/20/08
Top CriticGet Smart is made up of feeble and funny jokes, brand actors and enough special effects to give you some bang for your summertime buck.
06/20/08
Top CriticIt’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.
06/20/08
Top CriticIt can't decide whether it wants to be a thrilling action movie or a quirky comic spoof. The elements seem in conflict, rather than seamlessly blended.
06/19/08
Top CriticAs I say: darned funny! Weightless as froth, forgettable as dew, but pretty darned funny.
06/19/08
Top CriticA lot of the comedy seems to have been lost in the translation.
06/11/08
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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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