Overview
When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?
This movie was mediocre on levels that I didn’t even know existed. I say that while grading on a bit of a curve. After all, how hard could it be to mess this up? They started with the rough outline of a franchise that already existed, and then added in some A-list movie stars. They also had the ability to spoof so many other movies that came before it. The funny thing is that I can’t really put my finger on what exactly I would have changed because it was soooooo lacking. Despite Carrell’s best efforts (and he was really working it here), it wasn’t funny. It wasn’t a good action movie (the last 20 minutes were painful) and it wasn’t silly enough to be a spoof. Worse, if you paid attention in the middle part of the movie, they told you how the movie was going to end and who was the bad guy.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Get Smart
Movie title: Get Smart
Movie description: When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?
Date published: 2024-03-27
Director(s): Peter Segal
Actor(s): Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, James Caan, Bill Murray, Patrick Warburton, Terry Crews, David Koechner, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence, Ken Davitian, David S. Lee, Dalip Singh, Geoff Pierson, Kelly Karbacz, Arthur Darbinyan, Bill Romanowski, Mark Ivanir, Lindsay Hollister, Dimitri Diatchenko, Richard V. Licata, Greg Joung Paik, Joey Yu, Mike Akrawi, John Abiskaron, Kerry Lai Fatt, David A. Parker, Bonnie Hellman, John Farley, Jonathan Loughran, Felisha Terrell, Jeff Tanner, Jasper Pendergrass, Carl Crevier, David Schaap, Peter Weireter, Thomas Garner , Danielle Bisutti, Jessica Barth, David Fabrizio, John Eddins, Alex Kudrytsky, Tatyana Kaboulova, Moshana Halbert, Sergei Priselkov, Jane Gilchrist, Todd Sherry, David Aranovich, Ivy Bethune, Larry Miller, Kevin Nealon, Blake Clark, Cedric Yarbrough, James Moses Black, Bernie Kopell, Michael P. Catanzarite, Tim DeKay, Jerry Sherman, Matthew Glave, Brad Grunberg, Leonard B. Stern, Sean Segal, Stephen Dunham, Jennifer De Minco, Karri Turner, Ryan Seacrest, William Charlton, Nadia David, Aurelius DiBarsanti, Fred Fein, Mo Gallini, Sam Hale, Butch Klein, Sophia Lansky, Joshua Leary, Phoebe Price, Nicholas Rich, Shant Sarkissian, Julian Scott Urena, Gunter Ziegler, Vinicius Zorin-Machado
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
My Review
This movie was mediocre on levels that I didn’t even know existed. I say that while grading on a bit of a curve. After all, how hard could it be to mess this up? They started with the rough outline of a franchise that already existed, and then added in some A-list movie stars. They also had the ability to spoof so many other movies that came before it. The funny thing is that I can’t really put my finger on what exactly I would have changed because it was soooooo lacking. Despite Carrell’s best efforts (and he was really working it here), it wasn’t funny. It wasn’t a good action movie (the last 20 minutes were painful) and it wasn’t silly enough to be a spoof. Worse, if you paid attention in the middle part of the movie, they told you how the movie was going to end and who was the bad guy.
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