Get Smart

Pros: Good performances, especially Carell, Oka, and Torrence
Cons: The movie sometimes gets too serious

In the years he has been associated with CONTROL, Maxwell Smart has been valued to the top-secret government agency for his analytical skills. However, Max has always wanted more than to brief field agents on the potential dangers of their assignments. ...

Pros: Carell, Hathaway, Johnson, good story, lots of funny moments, it worked!
Cons: its not going to change the world

Get Smart is the theatrical update of the famous television show from the 1960's, pitting good against evil in a chess match that included humor mixed with spy thrills. The chess match was between CONTROL, a group of United State agents working ...

Pros: Good acting, decent action and special effect
Cons: Script not up to original standards

"GET SMART" the movie tries very hard and it has good performances from its main actors. What does it lack? The writing skills of the television series' creators, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. That show, which ran from 1965 to 1970, starred Don Adams as ...

Pros: Carell and Hathaway
Cons: Nothing major

I’m a big fan of Steve Carell, but was apprehensive about seeing this new Get Smart movie since almost every movie based on a TV show has been awful. As it would turn out, this was a really great movie full of action and comedy. I would definitely ...

Pros: great cast, lots of fun moments, nods to the original series
Cons: lots of changes from the series, not as laugh-aloud funny as I expected

I like S teve Carell. I like A nne Hathaway. And I fondly recall several summer days spent watching Get Smart marathons on Nickelodeon's Block Party. So I've been looking ...

Pros: surprisingly funny, poignant, biting, and action-packed
Cons: silly climax (but with a funny denouement)

The big-screen remake of TV's Get Smart is one of the few times Hollywood didn't muck it up. It's hard to capture what was right about a TV show from another time. It's even harder to do it when that show revolved around the personality of its star. ...

Pros: lots of funny moment, Steve Carell
Cons: Jumbled plot, people who haven't seen the TV show Get Smart won't relate

I am a huge Steve Carell fan. I have never missed an episode of The Office and I delight in watching the repeats. Whenever I see that Carell is going to be in a movie, I get a little bit excited. I loved the recent Dan in Real Life and I ...

Pros: Postmodern remake with nary a snigger
Cons: Steve Carrell is in fine form

Yet another TV series makes it to the big screen reinterpreting the substance excellently for the new millennium. Ultra-detailed CONTROL analyst Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) longs to leave the office to become a field agent and has gone to great ...

Pros: Get Smart is certainly watchable.  
Cons: It's probably not rewatchable.

Sometimes, I love Steve Carell.  Specifically, I love strange, hilarious The Office/40-Year-Old Virgin Steve Carell.  Not so much the annoying, slapstick Evan Almighty Steve Carell or the overly sentimental Dan in Real Life Steve Carell.  ...

Pros: Carell, Hathaway, good balance of new and elements of the original show
Cons: would have liked a few more gadgets

I used to love watching Get Smart re-runs on television when I was a kid. They were so silly, so zany, so ridiculous, so much fun. I loved the stupid jokes, the ban puns, the "it's so silly it's cool" equipment, the ultra cheesy special effects, ...

Pros: Steve Carrell. A successful re-invention of the tone of the TV show.
Cons: Not side-splittingly hilarious. Terrence Stamp wasted.

When I was a kid, I used to love watching the reruns of GET SMART when I got home from school every day. I remember for awhile, I’d get home in time to see GET SMART and THE MUNSTERS! Big excitement!!! (In case you never saw the show…which is ...

Pros: Steve Carell and a solid cast.
Cons: Humor is off and on.

In the post Cold-War era the focus on national security has changed from focusing on Eastern Block adversaries to terror cells and state sponsored terrorism. For the agents of the ultra secret agency Control, the demise of their arch nemesis ...

Pros: funny spoof
Cons: Corell lacks Adams voice

I went to watch Get Smart tonight at my local theater last night they were showing it. Now I loved watching the old 60’s Get Smart TV show from the late 60’s whenever it is on TV land. The show if you don’t know is about a bumbling spy by the name of Max ...

Pros: Smart script that keeps the film from sailing off of a cliff
Cons: Nothing of note.

I won't lie. "Get Smart" is extremely predictable. Gosh darn it though.... this film is a whole lotta fun. I think that's why I laughed at most of the gags, even though they were extremely transparent. What do I mean when I say that the gags are ...

Pros: Some Nice Comedy Moments, Fair Cast
Cons: Dull, Long, Silly

Maxwell Smart has spent his whole life watching his friends becoming secret agents - every year taking the entry test and every year being forced to work as an analyst for the United States government. However, when a national threat emerges and Agents ...