| | | Bonus Scenes Deliver 62% More "Laughs" - Loads of Never-Before-Seen Jokes!
Features: DVD, Widescreen
Steve Carell is in control as Maxwell Smart, the novice agent often out of his depth but never out of options in this action comedy pitting him against the nuclear scheme of the evil spy group KAOS. Anne Hathaway partners with Max as ever capable Agent 99. And Director Peter Segal (The Longest Yard) guides his stars (including Dwayne Johnson and Alan Arkin) through the dangerous realm of molar radios, multifunction pocketknives, exploding dental floss and more. "Get Smart works as an action film and its funny." (Richard Roeper, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper)
"...amusing and briskly paced, busy with an engaging mix of supporting actors." Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
"A stunt a minute, a laugh a minute. Get Smart is a summer smash." Larry King
"The unexpected star is Hathaway, looking cool as a runway model...and displaying great comic timing." Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"The movie is fun, and hilarious, because of its child-like whimsy." Mark Bell, Film Threat
"Funny and exciting." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
IThe spy spoof series gets the screen treatment with this action comedy starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. Agents 86 (Carell), 99 (Hathaway), and 23 (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) lead Control against the evil entity KAOS.
| Features | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Play Movie Straight Through Or In Comedy Optimization Mode With Get Smart Takes, Over 20 Minutes Of Hilarious Alternative Jokes | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Get Smart - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/24/2008 3:31 PM | |
Remaking the satirical '60s spy sitcom Get Smart without Steve Carell in the Maxwell Smart role would have been pretty dumb. Lucky for them -- and, by extension, us -- the creative team behind this rejuvenated Smart wisely tapped the unassuming funnyman to fill the late Don Adams' telephone-disguised-as-a-shoe. Carell's nimble turn as a calculatedly incompetent agent of CONTROL ensures that this modern spin on an outdated television property -- while rarely intelligent -- is consistently witty. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, Get Smart aired from 1965-'70 on NBC and CBS. It starred Adams as Agent 86, chief operative of a secret U.S. government spy agency that routinely battled the forces of KAOS....read the full review |
| Get Smart - DVD Review By: Marc Eastman - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 11/17/2008 10:43 PM | | It's still a bumbling slapstick driving most of the comedy, but this Max isn't quite so far toward complete idiot. He's just unfortunately uncoordinated, and Carell manages to infuse a bit of depth and a lot more heart into the character than was ever the point of the original. Get Smart makes a great decision in trying to shift the focus away from Max's gags as much as possible. ...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/10/2009 |
| Running Time: 110 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2008 | | Catalog ID: 1000023998 | | UPC: 00085391139775 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"[T]he film is breezily entertaining....Carell does a fine, goofy job." 06/19/2008New York Times
"[W]ith funny jokes, brand actors and enough special effects to give you some bang for your summertime buck....The most crucial of those recognizable faces in the GET SMART movie belongs to the comic actor Steve Carell, putting an amusing deadpan spin on the blundering CONTROL spy Maxwell Smart..." 06/20/2008 Entertainment Weekly
"[D]irected by Peter Segal with a refreshing lack of look-how-meta-clever-we-are egotism, the movie references enough of the original touchstones to please those who lived it the first time." -- Grade: B 07/11/2008 p.52 Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "In many ways, Maxwell Smart is the role Carell was born to play. The 007 wannabe exudes the guileless quality of his 40 year-old virgin..." 09/01/2008 p.72 Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "Steve Carell re-invents the '60s TV show about an unconventional spy in this silly-but-fun movie....Perfectly likable..." 03/01/2009 ReelViews 8 of 10
Get Smart becomes the latest in a long line of TV series to get a big-screen treatment. While we have come to expect recycled refuse from most of these (Bewitched perhaps occupying the nadir), Get Smart manages to rise above the continuum of regurgitation by walking a tightrope that allows it to appeal to those who have fond memories of the late-1960s spy spoof and those who don't know Don Adams from John Adams. Get Smart is delightfully silly and at times very funny. The characters are likeable and feel connected to their TV counterparts. And, although Mel Brooks and Buck Henry (creators of the original) are not directly involved, the filmmakers have crafted something that both men would likely agree is in the spirit of what they shepherded to the small screen...If Get Smart faces a hurdle, it could be that viewers are tiring of these TV-to-movie transitions (perhaps because so many have been so bad), and Get Smart lacks the cachet of some of its contemporaries. It is not widely available on DVD (only as an entire series box set from Time Life) and thus has not re-entered the popular culture of the 2000s the way so many older TV shows have. This is one instance, however, when a TV series-based movie rewards nostalgia without demanding it. Get Smart is funny enough in its own right to attract younger viewers while paying homage to its 40-year old predecessor. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
The closing credits of "Get Smart" mention Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, creators of the original TV series, as "consultants." Their advice must have been: "If it works, don't fix it." There have been countless comic spoofs of the genre founded by James Bond, but "Get Smart" (both on TV and now in a movie) is one of the best. It's funny, exciting, preposterous, great to look at, and made with the same level of technical expertise we'd expect from a new Bond movie itself. And all of that is very nice, but nicer still is the perfect pitch of the casting...Steve Carell makes an infectious Maxwell Smart, the bumbling but ambitious and unreasonably self-confident agent for CONTROL, a secret U.S. agency in rivalry with the CIA. His job is to decipher overheard conversations involving agents of KAOS, its Russian counterpart. At this he is excellent: What does it mean that KAOS agents discuss muffins? That they have a high level of anxiety, of course, because muffins are a comfort food. Brilliant, but he misses the significance of the bakery they're also discussing -- a cookery for high-level uranium...One of the gifts of Steve Carell is to deliver punchlines in the middle of punches and allow both to seem real enough at least within the context of the movie. James Bond could do that, too. And in a summer with no new Bond picture, will I be considered a heretic by saying "Get Smart" will do just about as well? - Roger Ebert
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