Get Smart is the best film in years. How about the best film this year? Okay, how about a film worth seeing on a Saturday afternoon when you have nothing else to do.
Well, it's definitely the latter, but I must admit, I think it's even better than that. The creative team certainly misses many opportunities to connect Get Smart to the political moment (the one attempt, James Caan's George Bush reading to kids during imminent attack falls totally flat), but it turns out to be a lot of fun.
Steve Carrel is a different kind of Maxwell Smart. He may be inept, but he is the hero and he does heroic things and not by accident. He's supported by a fine Anne Hathaway and a pretty decent cast that gets the humor and sticks the jokes and the pratfalls.
Get Smart looks like it's doing well enough to warrant a sequel, and I'm okay with that.
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I was excited about seeing this until I read some of the reviews. I'll probably wait until it comes out on dvd so I can watch it on tv, which is where it probably belongs.
I have to agree with you... I laughed out loud at the movie. I was a bit afraid that it was going to fall into the genre of remakes that make a valiant effort, but ultimately fail. I was happily surprised to find it so delightful... especially as a double feature at a drive with, it was paired with WALL*E. Lovely combination.
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