Get Smart

Not as intelligent as the original


When I was a child growing up in California, every morning, while eating a bowl or two of Cookie Crisp, my brothers and I had great routine: first we’d watch The Price Is Right, then a rerun of Get Smart.

Nowadays, most college age students don’t know Agent Maxwell Smart or the fictional secret government agency Control. However, one thing they are familiar with is Steve Carell.

Get Smart is not a Get Smart movie. And while it does include many running Get Smart lines and gags, it is a Steve Carell movie. Audiences unfamiliar with the original television series will be entertained none-the-less. But those who adored the classic, will find it lacking in comparison.

In Get Smart, Carell plays the intelligent, not-so-smooth Agent 86, Maxwell Smart. After Control headquarters are broken into, Smart and Agent 99 (played by the gorgeous Anne Hathaway) are sent undercover deep into the land their nemesis organization, KAOS.

The plot of Get Smart doesn’t make much sense. The story somehow takes you from Control’s break-in, to Europe looking for a bad guy, then to Moscow looking for a nuke factory, then back to the states to foil a terrorist attack.

Carell fans, get ready to be purely entertained. Get Smart fans, think twice. It’s not what you’re been waiting for.

Photo credit: Warner Bros.

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