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Get Smart.
Published 6/18/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"So, the old turn-a-beloved-TV-show-into-a-hit-movie trick, eh?" David Carr talks with Get Smart's makers for the New York Times, notes that, "For every Mission: Impossible there is more than one Bewitched." This one's a "pleasant surprise," declares the Voice's J Hoberman. "As directed by Peter Segal..., Get Smart redux is less a parody of a genre that had already passed into self-parody many moons before the TV show was in reruns, and more an all-purpose (and often quite ...

Links for the Day (June 18th, 2008)
Published 6/18/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... 4. "A Pleasant Surprise": That's exactly what J. Hoberman thinks Get Smart is. And our own Vadim Rizov takes a look back ...

Actually Smart?
Published 6/20/2008 at Row Three
Actually Smart? There are rumblings ( here , here , here ) out there that TV show re-envisioning Get Smart is actually good. Surely it is better than the Pink Panther reboot (which for some reason this film from start to finish always reminded me of even though I never saw that Steve Martin vehicle), but worth $10 and two hours of my time? Perchance a family trip during a morning matinee - there is no sign of Kung Fu Fighting on the soundtrack and Wall*E is still a week away. Taking my impressionable kiddies out to see Young People ...

Weekend Movie Forecast: Get Smart Vs. The Love Guru
Published 6/20/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
Judging from Get Smart’s first remarkably unfunny trailer, you might assume this $80 million remake of the late-‘60s sitcom, starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Alan Arkin, would be a guaranteed flop, but it’s actually getting some decent reviews. (It’s a mixed bag, of course.) The Village Voice’s avant garde film buff J. Hoberman, of all people, deems it a “pleasant surprise… an all-purpose (and often quite funny) goofball action comedy.” Or maybe critics went easy on Get Smart because they ...