Without Anne Hathaway, Get Smart might have been a one-note comedy; with her, it's super spirited and super fun.
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11/09/08
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Get Smart (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 101
Rotten:91
Average Rating: 5.6/10
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 and the identities of its agents... [More]
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter Segal
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Not funny outrageous or funny gross, but funny cute, funny nice, funny mild.
10/28/08
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10/18/08
Top Critic Anne Hathaway plays the straightest part, quite possibly well, we are not entirely sure. She is so incapacitatingly sexy we lost concentration during several of her scenes.
08/25/08
The film doesn't have the sharp hysteria of the series, and it gets a bit over-serious at times. But it's still a thoroughly entertaining film with terrific characters all its own.
08/22/08
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.
08/22/08
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.
08/22/08
Get Smart won’t change the world but it is the most fun movie out this weekend.
08/22/08
Top Critic 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.
08/22/08
Top Critic 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.
08/22/08
Top Critic 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.
08/22/08
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.
08/22/08
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.
08/22/08
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November 03, 2008:
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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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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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