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Get Smart (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 183 Fresh: 96  Rotten:87 Average Rating: 5.6/10
 
Consensus: Get Smart rides Steve Carell's considerable charm for a few laughs, but in the end is a rather ordinary Summer comedy.
 

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some rude humor, action violence and language

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Theatrical Release: Jun 20, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $128,226,222

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 and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote... 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 and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). Given little field experience and even less time, Smart-armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm-must thwart the doomsday plans of KAOS head Siegfried (Terence Stamp). --© Warner Bros. [More]

Genre: Comedies

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

Director: Peter Segal
Screenwriter: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember
Producer: Andrew Lazar, Charles Roven, Alex Gartner
Composer: Trevor Rabin

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3/5

Anne 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.

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08/25/08
Chris Laverty
Mansized
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3/5

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.

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08/22/08
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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2/5

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.

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08/22/08
Anthony Quinn
Independent
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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.

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08/22/08
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
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4/5

Get Smart won’t change the world but it is the most fun movie out this weekend.

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08/22/08
Sun Online
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3/5

The picture works best as a comedy, and early on it's consistently amusing, with a refreshingly witty script and skilful actors in Carell, Arkin and, more surprisingly, Johnson, to put across the verbal and sight gags with brio.

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08/22/08
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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Adequate and fun but really nothing special.

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08/22/08
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2/5

Stunts, gadgets and Bill Murray in a tree: Get Smart hurls everything at the screen in the hope it’ll stick. Shame all the money went on the dopey action finale instead of some halfway witty gags and a decent script.

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08/22/08
Total Film
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3/5

Yet while it’s as novel as a second-hand ejector seat and hits the groin more often than the funnybone, Get Smart still registers enough clicks on the giggle counter to make its mission passable.

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08/22/08
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies
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Steve Carell is reliably funny as an accident-prone special agent in Get Smart, but he's funny on his own here - without a good script or a zingy supporting cast to help him along.

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08/22/08
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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2/5

This 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.

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08/22/08
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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2/5

Peter Segal’s film is only occasionally funny.

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08/22/08
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)
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2/5

From this distance it looks like a rejected chapter from the Naked Gun franchise, and infinitely more wooden.

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08/22/08
James Christopher
Times [UK]
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2/5

If you really want to get smart, you'll avoid this tiresome time-waster like the proverbial plague.

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08/22/08
Neil Smith
Channel 4 Film
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2/6

Overall this is a limp parade of recycled gags and gadgets: an action movie with no surprises and a comedy with nothing like enough laughs.

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08/22/08
Tom Huddlestone
Time Out
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3/5

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.

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08/22/08
Tony Horkins
Empire Magazine
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2/10

Hiring 50-year-old Madonna to sing out Get Smart's end credits is a nice touch - given the film is one long joke almost as old as the Queen of Pop herself.

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08/21/08
Victor Olliver
Teletext
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4/5

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08/21/08
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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3/4

A slight positive check mark in the history of television adaptations.

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08/10/08
Wesley Lovell
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08/07/08
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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