Get Smart: Neither Smart Nor Funny
July 1st 2008 10:04
Get Smart
Get Smart is a movie adapted from 60's television series of the same name. Not having seen the television series, I cannot vouch if the movie is faithful to its original but it definitely feels like a television show itself.
Get Smart features Maxwell Smart, an analyst at CONTROL (a spy agency of the US), who wants to be a field agent. Max or Agent 86, is groomed by a very impressive Agent 23 but is held back by his boss who thinks his analyst skills are more important to CONTROL. Once, the CONTROL headquarters are broken into and news comes of nuclear material getting out of hand in Europe, Max is despatched to Russia but under the wings of Agent 99.
The movie is supposed to be a cross between humour and action but it never gets the balance right. The action set pieces are all derivative and the humour is ineffective. Steve Carrell, the comedian gets the longest opportunity for rehearsing his role in the movie itself. All through the first act, it feels like he is rehearsing; only when the movie moves to Russia, it feels like he is acting. Anne Hathaway is too fat to be glamourous. Only Dwight Johnson as Agent 23 and Alan Arkin as the boss manage to get their roles right.
That aside, the overall quality, the tone and the ambience of the movie is so poor, it felt like i was watching some third rate Bollywood concoction. Not a Hollywood movie by any light.
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