Review: Get Smart (2008)

Review: Get Smart

Posted 6/20/2008 on Cinematical

During the opening of Get Smart , the new big-screen re-visitation of the '60s spy spoof TV show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, we're shown a montage detailing the mighty workings of the modern intelligence apparatus; covert microphones, satellite communications intercepts, frantic translation, secretive meetings. As top analyst Maxwell Smart ( Steve Carell ) walks the streets of ...

Review: ‘Get Smart’

Posted 6/20/2008 on WeAreMovieGeeks.com

Ram Man: When I heard Hollywood was bringing one of my favorite TV shows from when I was growing up to the big screen… I was FIRED UP! My only thought was Steve Carell is the only choice to play the stumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart. Mel Brooks, Buck Henry and director Peter Segal agreed. Great minds do think alike! Get Smart, spy-spoof TV series from 1965-67 has been updated ...

Review: Get Smart

Posted 6/20/2008 on Screen Rant

Short version: Get Smart manages to combine slapstick, wit, action, and a bit of romance in a package that will leave you smiling even after you leave the theater. Well I'll be damned. Based on the trailers and clips I'd seen, I wasn't sure what sort of review I'd be giving Get Smart. Imagine my pleasant surprise [...]

Mr. Beaks Likes GET SMART, Loves Anne Hathaway!

Posted 6/20/2008 on Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

GET SMART may have been one of the cleverest sitcoms of the 1960s, but it didn't last for five seasons on wit alone; if it were simply a matter of funny, shows like POLICE SQUAD! and ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT would still be running today. For whatever reason, American TV viewers require a palpable emotional investment in the characters to keep tuning in. They crave sexual chemistry between the ...

‘Get Smart’ Breaths New Life Into an Old Favorite [Movie Review]

Posted 6/20/2008 on Film School Rejects

In talking about the new incarnation of Get Smart , the film due out this Friday, June 20, producer Charles Roven said that they “didn’t want to recreate it, but to contemporize it — to make it work for our time with a modern perspective and action sequences that aren’t only there to punctuate the laughs but are worthy of any thriller.” This is, in fact, probably ...

Review: Get Smart

Posted 6/20/2008 on Filmfodder News and Reviews

"Get Smart" is an uneven misfire. Review by Brian Orndorf. (Grade: B-)

At the Travers Take: Video Review of “The Love Guru” and “Get Smart”

Posted 6/19/2008 on Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

Dueling comedies open this weekend — Mike Myers’ “The Love Guru” and Steve Carell’s “Get Smart.” Only one has Anne Hathaway … and only one is worth seeing. Head to the Travers Take for our movie critic’s full report. • Video Review: Get Smart and The Love Guru • Review: The Love Guru (.5 stars) • Review: Get Smart ...

DNfromMN - Movie Review - Get Smart

Posted 6/18/2008 on Crazy Days and Nights

GET SMART Release Date: 6/20/08 The Story: Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is promoted to being a secret agent for CONTROL after the evil KAOS breaks in and steals/starts killing agents. Smart and Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) are tasked with rescuing the world from KAOS’s stolen nuclear weapons. I’m in the process of moving so we’ll make this quick. Dwayne Johnson – hot, clothes fit well (VERY ...

Get Smart Review - Not Looking Good

Posted 6/18/2008 on The Movie Blog

Early reviews are out for this weekend’s Get Smart. It was to offer the only competition to Mike Meyers’ Love Guru as a rival comedy, but its not looking positive. Guru itself has been met with skeptical eyes presuming it was just another over the top Meyer’s character, but with such scathing review of Get Smart, it might be looking like the lesser of two evils. Yahoo ...

Review: 'Get Smart' Misses It By A Lot

Posted 6/17/2008 on Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

" Get Smart ," which began its life on TV as a classic sitcom that cleverly satirized Cold War espionage, has been transformed for the big screen into just another standard action picture. Read more!

‘Get Smart’ is Hilarious Spy Goodness [Movie Review]

Posted 6/17/2008 on Film School Rejects

The first thing you need to know about Get Smart is that death by post-it note is a slow death. If you didn’t already know that, you’re probably not CONTROL material. But Steve Carell is, and he leads a great cast of classic characters that deliver a spy van full of laughs and do the original TV series slapstick justice. If you haven’t been bunkered down in a hovel ...

CineVegas Review: Get Smart

Posted 6/16/2008 on Cinematical

The slick new version of the dusty 1960s television comedy Get Smart is one of the better TV adaptations to come along in recent years. It's faithful to the original without being overly reverential, it modernizes the premise without mocking it, and you can fully enjoy it even if you've never seen the TV series. Oh, and best of all -- it's funny. Steve Carell deserves much of the credit ...

Movie Review: Get Smart

Published 6/19/2008 on The IESB

I’ll admit to not being a die-hard Get Smart fan. In fact, it wasn’t until I had to write this review that I began to view clips from the Mel Brooks/Buck Henry classic.