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Get Smart

2008

Peter Segal

Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin ...

5.2

12,493

Comedy. Action Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of KAOS with the more-competent Agent 99 at his side.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Tony Horkins Empire	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Watching Max and company run amok just gave me the creeps. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of bumbling spies."	NEG
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"[It] references just enough of the original touchstones and punchlines to please those who lived it the first time."	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] has precious little to do with 'Get Smart' the iconic TV series from the 1960s, but then again the movie has precious little to do with screen comedy, either."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It’s funny, exciting, preposterous, great to look at, and made with the same level of technical expertise we’d expect from a new Bond movie itself. And all of that is very nice, but nicer still is the perfect pitch of the casting. (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
Australia	Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald	"Which words describe this movie version of one of the funniest television shows ever made? Terrible, puerile and a travesty are close, but not angry enough."	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"It is delightfully silly and at times very funny. The characters are likeable and feel connected to their TV counterparts (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"Some moments work (...) But 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."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"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 (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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