Get Smart

Rating: 7
Genre: Comedy

This movie was based of the Get Smart TV series from the 1960s. It’s pretty much a spoof on spy movies… very similar (as my brilliant wife pointed out) to Pink Panther… or the Austin Powers movies. I think Steve Carell did a great job portraying Maxwell Smart (agent 86), the bumbling agent for Control who is out to save the globe from the evil terrorist group Chaos and its agents.

In the original Don Adams played agent 86 and Barbara Feldon played agent 99. In the latest movie, Anne Hathaway plays agent 99. She did a great job playing the role of the savvy, smooth part of the duo. At the beginning she was a little more smug than the Barbara Feldon character was but comes around to being a helpful, likeable partner by mid-movie.

Alan Arkin plays the chief and did a great job. He brings a touch of class to the movie… Chief is less disgusted with Max in this movie than he was in the series and is his mentor and coach… a very refreshing portrayal of modern management skills.

Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) plays another Control agent and has a few funny parts too. James Caan, Patrick Warburton, and Bill Murray have bit parts.

This isn’t a deep movie but was a fun and witty action-comedy. If you liked the original series at all, you’ll like this movie too.