Get Smart Reviews

We sit back and wait for the laughs. Which come pretty slow and infrequent, though Carell does his straight-faced best to act out the A-Z of Hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The film is about as funny as a 3am cold call, and if you are a critic you cannot slam down the phone before you have heard it out.

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Get Smart won't change the world but it is the most fun movie out this weekend.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The picture works best as a comedy, and early on it's consistently amusing, with a refreshingly witty script and skilful actors in Carell, Arkin and, more surprisingly, Johnson, to put across the verbal and sight gags with brio.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Adequate and fun but really nothing special.

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Stunts, gadgets and Bill Murray in a tree: Get Smart hurls everything at the screen in the hope it'll stick. Shame all the money went on the dopey action finale instead of some halfway witty gags and a decent script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Yet while it's as novel as a second-hand ejector seat and hits the groin more often than the funnybone, Get Smart still registers enough clicks on the giggle counter to make its mission passable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Steve Carell is reliably funny as an accident-prone special agent in Get Smart, but he's funny on his own here - without a good script or a zingy supporting cast to help him along.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Peter Segal's film is only occasionally funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

From this distance it looks like a rejected chapter from the Naked Gun franchise, and infinitely more wooden.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If you really want to get smart, you'll avoid this tiresome time-waster like the proverbial plague.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/6

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Hiring 50-year-old Madonna to sing out Get Smart's end credits is a nice touch - given the film is one long joke almost as old as the Queen of Pop herself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Entertaining, smartly acted spy comedy that delivers thrills and laughs in equal measure, while throwing in enough material to keep fans of the TV series happy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A film with great flair. Another hit for Carell and a great summer hit for all that is a must see!!

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A slight positive check mark in the history of television adaptations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

I often wondered if the filmmakers weren't trying to fix something that isn't broken.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Offering a little bit of everything but not quite enough of any one thing, Get Smart is a likable jumble of genres that would have benefited from being less ambitious.

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