Get Smart Movie Reviews
Get Smart has been a highly anticipated summer movie - a great television show brought to the big screen by the very talented Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. But how do the Get Smart movie reviews shake out?
According to Metacritic.com, Get Smart has so far received 14 critic reviews and has scored a 55 out of 100 score (mixed or average reviews).
The highest review is from Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who says: “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.”
And the least favorable review from Newsweek’s David Ansen says of Get Smart: “In this distressingly generic spy spoof, it’s not Maxwell who’s clueless, but the filmmakers.”
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On June 23rd 2008, Joseph C. Cavella wrote:
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As one of the writers of the original “Get Smart” TV series, I was sadly disappointed by the new “Get Smart” movie–I can’t understand why remakes don’t at least talk to the original material writers. Maybe it’s kind of, “I want to do it myself, mom.”
That said, for the writers of the next remake, here’s a tip: The essence, the fun of the Don Adams character was his child-like confidence and his bravado (not unlike the character often played by Bob Hope) presaging the inevitable catastrophic blunder. “Sorry about that.” Seeing a man slip on a banana peel is funny. Seeing a pompous man slip on a banana peel is infinitely funnier.
Any writer charged with vetting agent 86 should start by studying the origin of the character–Don’s early nightclub routines. His defense attorney bit: “Look at those trim ankles, the well turned calf. Now I ask you. Are those the legs of a homicidal maniac?”
Joseph C. Cavella
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