It’s not that Get Smart is bad - It’s that it’s just sort of pointless. Steve Carrel is funny, yeah, in his role as Maxwell Smart. And Anne Hathaway certainly performs ably as Agent 99. But the jokes either lie there and don’t amount to much or are so underlined to make it clear that they’re JOKES! that it actually serves to make each one less funny.
The story is alright, basically showing Max’s introduction to the world of being a field agent for CONTROL after years of being a detail-obsessed analyst. He of course blunders and bumbles through his assignments but survives and ultimately saves the day, as well as overcoming the initial reluctance of 99 to his methods.
But it’s so blatant about its desire to be funny and its desire to be an action film that it forgets to capture any of the spirit of the source TV show. Get Smart is worth watching but you shouldn’t be looking for anything too interesting from it.
posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 7:00 PM by ChrisThilk
