Review: ‘Get Smart’
2008-06-21 13:43:04 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Entertainment News)Hollywood, California (CaymanMama.com) — CNN reported that 43 years ago, Buck Henry and Mel Brooks gave birth to a show which was about an average intelligence agent who remained constantly confounded in his own ineffectiveness. If this was considered funny at that time, then it is likely to be funny today also.
If the movie ‘Get Smart’ is not a success, it is not because there is no cold war or spy spoofs and because half an hour of inspired stupidity does not automatically stretch out to 2 hours of continued pleasure. In addition to that, Maxwell Smart has not been appropriately replaced by Steve Carell. Stepping into square-shouldered coats and phone shoes does not really make a man.
Although there are similarities between the former and the recent character as the new one is still immature and prone to accidents. In addition his physical strength, he is able to surprise us by his expertise and ingenuity.
Powers is a love child of Peter Sellers and Sean Connery whereas Smart is the American composite to Jack Benny, Lou Costello and Jack Webb. It is a coincidence that Carell is going head to head with ‘The Love Guru’ starring Mike Myers this weekend. Carell does not imitate the side-long diction of Adams and the movie is still equipped with the former catch-phrases.
He tries to hit the groove with some slapstick sequences. As Agent 99, the better half of Smart, Anne Hathaway, is seen rolling her eyes too much. She quite resembles the former Barbara Feldon and sometimes, she even plays in a graceful evening gown and Feldon bob, but in a modern way.
Hathaway shows her brains, beauty and karate kick but essentially plays a straight person here. It seems too much to ask her to be funny. The screenwriters Matt Ember and Tom Astle and the director Segal do not seem to even bother about linking the pieces together. The satire is not sharp and the lame potshots are stale.
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