Get Smart

2/11/2023

**Get Smart unleashes Steve Carrell's comedic brilliance and makes it one of the most entertaining and hilarious spy films of all time.** Get Smart is hilarious. Just good clean, hilarious fun. Steve Carrell is in his sweet spot with all kinds of physical comedy and side-splitting sarcasm. This movie feels every bit like a spy comedy starring Michael Scott from the Office, except this time with a much bigger budget than Threat Level Midnight. I don't know how the cast could keep a straight face with Steve Carrell's performance as outrageous and entertaining as it was. Anne Hathaway was an excellent partner reacting to Carrell's nonsense with many of her own clever moments. Having watched re-runs of the original TV show with my grandparents growing up, it was easy to see how the movie ho

5/18/2023

Kind of a weird type 007 like movie but really funny. Anne Hathaway is really hot in this movie too.

5/27/2026

To say that Get Smart (2008) gets dumb is a painfully obvious joke, yet one that zeroes in on what’s wrong with this film. What’s to gain from dumbing down a TV show that’s already sillier than silly? And not just dumbing it down but filthing it up. The phrase “ungrateful whore” has no place whatsoever in a Get Smart story, not even as an example of things people say but don’t really mean. It’s not that the words can’t be funny. The “roses are red, violets are blue, f*** you, whore” line from 500 Days of Summer is hilarious. It’s all about context. The makers of this Get Smart film adaptation thought that bringing the show’s humor into the 21st century meant saying the kind of things that a mid-to-late-1960s network sitcom couldn’t say, but they never once stopped to consider whether