As a reworking of one of the great 1960s TV comedies, you'd think being funny would be its main goal. But you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.
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10/18/08
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Get Smart (2008)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:19
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Get Smart rides Steve Carell's considerable charm for a few laughs, but in the end is a rather ordinary Summer comedy.
Theatrical Release:Jun 20, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $130,246,343
Synopsis: Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked... [More]
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter Segal
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Reviews for Get Smart
Top CriticI often wondered if the filmmakers weren’t trying to fix something that isn’t broken.
08/07/08
Top CriticOne of the more pleasant surprises of the year.
06/23/08
Top CriticGet Smart is likable and very funny -- at least a two-to-one ratio of excellent gags to clunkers -- but it’s not, for better or worse, Get Smart.
06/20/08
Top CriticWritten and directed with efficiency, cheer, and a refreshing lack of look-how-meta-clever-we-are egotism, the movie references just enough of the original touchstones and punchlines to please those who lived it the first time.
06/20/08
Top CriticChipper, energetic and unimaginatively plotted re-do.
06/20/08
Top CriticRather than the laugh a minute promised by old comedies, Get Smart generates approximately one laugh per hour, and I can't remember either one.
06/20/08
Top CriticYou cannot expect a bunch of vacationing kids to remember, let alone revere, a cheeky little TV half hour that entertained the old folks almost a half century ago.
06/20/08
Top CriticRemaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a really bad idea.
06/20/08
Top CriticGet Smart could have been smarter. But like the show that inspired it, it's still smarter than it looks.
06/20/08
Top CriticIt has the old lines, and the funky props that fans remember. But it also has some decent new ideas, too. And thanks to Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, a bit of a new vibe.
06/20/08
Top CriticWould you believe the new version of the '60s spy spoof Get Smart, starring Steve Carell, isn't awful -- like almost all TV-to-movie transfers -- but instead, that it's actually pretty funny (if overlong and overproduced)?
06/20/08
Top CriticAlthough Carell is never less than likable, he's funnier in any random scene of The Office. Here's hoping some misguided team doesn't try to turn that series into a quick grab at box-office bucks 40 years from now.
06/20/08
Top CriticA little more unabashed silliness might have made Get Smart a better movie. As is it's a chuckly comfort-food film that you neither love nor hate, serviceable fare for a warm summer daze.
06/20/08
Top CriticBy movie's end, we can imagine spending some more time with Agents 86 and 99, and liking it.
06/20/08
Top CriticInstead of the show's wacky, slapstick tone, Get Smart presents itself as an action-filled spy movie that just happens to be really funny. And for the most part, it succeeds.
06/20/08
Top CriticGet Smart, version 2008, surrounds skilled, likable players, and a handful of solid belly laughs with $80 million worth of formulaic summer-movie mediocrity. A lot of things explode, but the movie never detonates.
06/20/08
Top CriticThe truth is that Get Smart is one of the year's sharper comedies, and if it contains any WMDs, that stands for 'wit of major delight.'
06/20/08
Top CriticThe new Get Smart doesn't miss it by that much.
06/20/08
Top CriticGet Smart is made up of feeble and funny jokes, brand actors and enough special effects to give you some bang for your summertime buck.
06/20/08
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January 07, 2009:
People's Choice Awards Winners Announced
The 35th annual People's Choice Awards were handed out on January 7, 2009. A complete list of film nominees, with winners in bold, follows below. More...
November 21, 2008:
Segal to Helm Captain Marvel, Get Smart 2 for Warners 
In a move that will see him directing both "Captain Marvel" and a "Get Smart" sequel for the studio, Peter Segal has signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Bros. More...
November 03, 2008:
RT on DVD: Get Smart, Futurama: Bender's Game and the Obama DVD Controversy
This week, pick up Steve Carell's sweetly bumbling spy antics (Get Smart), the promising new Futurama movie (Bender's Game), a few early holiday treats (Shrek the Halls, A... More...
October 31, 2008:
This retro-espionage spoof is more giggles than satirical grit, and simply lacks the comic punch and charisma, along with the pungent Cold War flavor of the times that energized the original.
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