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Would You Believe...?? Derek Flint Is Back With A Review Of GET SMART!!
Merrick here...
Our man Derek Flint is back with a rather well-done review of GET SMART - a film I've been looking forward to, and about which we've been hearing GENERALLY GOOD THINGS.
Derek isn't as positive as some have been about the project...nor does he trash it completely. Please keep in mind that the version Derek watched is not a final cut; the film may be tweaked & adjusted before its release next Summer.
Read on to see what Derek has to say...
Here's Derek Flint...
Obviously, I love sixties’ spies. No, I don’t mean Roger Moore as a senior citizen James Bond using a walker to run up the Eiffel tower, but those dudes who went undercover during the cold war when the Berlin Wall still had fresh paint: Palmer, Flint, Drake, Number 6, Solo and, of course, Maxwell Smart.
I grew up watching repeats of GET SMART and fell in love with it. The coolest thing was it was a real spy show and despite his bungling, Max could always somehow pull it together and save the day. You were always rooting for him. While being a spoof; the character was a legitimate action hero.
Don Adams’ indelible portrayal was the reason Agent 86 became a TV icon. Whenever there was daring do, Don was credible as a spy, convincingly throwing punches and handling firearms like nobody’s business.
The way Don held a machine gun in the pilot surprised me because he seemed comfortable with it, not like a comedian at all, so it came as no surprise when I watched an A&E Biography and found out Adams had served in the Marines during WW2.
GET SMART is probably the most revived TV show of all time. It was a theatrical movie in 1980. A TV movie in 1989. An updated Fox series featuring Andy Dick as Maxwell Smart’s son Zach in 1994. The casting of Dick made the show seem pro-abortion.
None of these later incarnations clicked and shared the same deficiency: Brilliant comedy writing, the hallmark of the original show, the brainchild of Mel Brooks & Buck Henry.
Now, almost forty years later, for the first time another actor steps into the shoe phone and portrays Maxwell Smart… the talented Steve Carell in a new big screen, big budget remake of yet another classic TV show.
The result, directed by Pete Segal, is a mixed bag. None of it particularly original or satirical, just decidedly good-natured and amiable. This GET SMART is pleasant at best, groan inducing and uninspired at worst.
Once again, despite a topflight cast and excellent production values, the weaknesses in this new GET SMART come from a mediocre screenplay that cobbles most of its key plot points from Rowan Atkinson’s earlier spy comedy JOHNNY ENGLISH.
The screenplay here is credited to Tom Astle and Matt Ember, whose previous movie FAILURE TO LAUNCH had about as many yuks as MUNICH.
Astle & Ember, a new age anti-Brooks & Henry, have reconceived the characters of Maxwell Smart and his female sidekick, Agent 99, in a rather bizarre fashion that will leave devotees of the original series perplexed and going WTF?
Obviously, Steve Carell isn’t a man of action. In fact, he looks like he’d get winded taking a leak, so his version of Maxwell Smart is a nerdy desk jockey who works as an intelligence analyst for CONTROL. His job is monitoring the activities of a sinister organization known as KAOS, that’s been updated for a post 9/11 world to a terrorist group.
Like Johnny English, Carell dreams of being a field operative and looks up to another agent, 23, played by Dwayne “Don’t Call Me Rock” Johnson as a live action video game hero. Rock does a good-natured riff on an action star, but with a undertone that serves as a plot point later on.
As if to underscore his outcast status, Carell’s Smart has been battling a weight problem and is a former chubby boy, a Kirstie Alley Goodyear blimp, prone to count his calories and munch on nutritious energy bars. (Whichever studio dolt gave this note should be sent to Abu Ghraib and forced to play nude “Twister” with the other detainees.)
After a surprise raid on Control’s headquarters wipes out most of its manpower, the group leader, The Chief, portrayed by a superb Alan Arkin in frustrated authority figure mode, is forced to send an ill equipped, virginal Smart into his very first mission. Once again, this is identical to Atkinson’s ENGLISH.
Max is assigned a female sidekick who’s more experienced than him, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 refigured as a Jennifer Garner kick-ass heroine. Trouble is, Hathaway looks young enough to be Carell’s daughter. When things get romantic, I thought they would set off an Amber alert.
The way they attempt to dodge this elephant in the room, as well as explain Hathaway’s inexplicable seniority, is to establish this 99 had plastic surgery to assume a new persona, since the Kaos raid compromised the classified identities of all Control agents.
Despite the Grand Canyon age gap, Carell and Hathaway share surprisingly good chemistry. However, scenes where they reminisce on their past discarded lives, intended as character arcs, are ham-fisted and as inept as the main character’s klutziness.
Unlike the original show, this GET SMART isn’t a scathing government satire, despite a smattering of limp political jokes, but a standard issue spy comedy.
Terrance Stamp portrays Seigfried, who’s nothing like the campy villain from the sixties show after which he’s named. The writing and the role don’t take full advantage of General Zod’s strengths, relegating him to a conventional Malcolm McDowell type bad guy. (Some of the scenes with him reminded me of the Eddie Murphy / Owen Wilson rehash of I SPY, a movie I walked out of… when it was on HBO.)
Shtarker, the habitually abused underling, fares much better because Ken Davitian, Borat’s infamous producer and sidekick, plays him. Davitian made film history by performing a nude fight scene that was like “Eastern Promises” in a parallel universe. Here he keeps his clothes on, mercifully, but still garners big belly laughs from his inane expressions and body language. Davitian proves inspired casting because he can make the phone book funny, and that’s about on par with the material he’s been handed.
There are laughs in GET SMART, but it’s never hilarious. At best you smile, especially when some gags are seemingly lifted verbatim from the source material. The performers earn their paydays in this one This is a strong, inventive cast and many of their lines and business feels improvised. Given the talents involved, you can bet they probably were.
The most successful aspects are the action scenes. Here, Pete Segal surprises as he handles mayhem and destruction with almost John Landis’ bygone brand of signature abandon. These sequences aren’t played for laughs, going for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and BOURNE IDENTITY verisimilitude. However, unlike a RUSH HOUR which mixes action with comedy, the tone of this reinvented SMART sometimes feels as confused as Mitt Romney during a debate. It often can’t make up its mind whether it’s a send-up or a real spy movie, a tone the original show deftly managed.
The supporting cast, including brief cameos from the original show and other recognizable faces, are pretty nominal.
Without giving anything away, one sequence pays direct homage to the original show and its classic credit sequence. The physical resemblance Carell sports to Don Adams within this stretch is surprising, and also feels like a heartfelt tribute to the man who will always be Maxwell Smart to a generation of people old enough to remember… or just old enough to work a DVD player.
There’s also an attempt to establish a “Lone Gunmen” group who offer Smart help . There were times in the film that I wish David Zucker wasn’t wasting his time on those awful SCARY MOVIE sequels and lent a helping hand, as this “Geek Squad” humor had a predictable sitcom feel and didn’t play well.
Once again in the story, like JOHNNY ENGLISH, Smart is discredited and must fight to redeem himself. Carell is an incredibly likeable performer and his innate decency is able to infuse the clichéd, by the numbers plot points with some genuine rooting interest.
You keep wishing the studio and producers hadn’t chosen GET SMART and instead made an original spy comedy, freeing Carell to come up with a character all his own… as opposed to being once again acting in the shadow of Paul Lynde (“Bewitched”), Ricky Gervais (“The Office”) and Jim Carrey (“Evan Almighty”).
When Carell forges his own fresh characterizations, as he did in ANCHORMAN, THE FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, he’s unbeatable. Stop giving this outstanding comic actor sloppy seconds!
Anne Hathaway doesn’t fare as well. While a hottie, her Agent 99 derides Smart so much she winds up seemingly castrating him half of the time. She handles action scenes just fine, but isn’t a particularly gifted straight woman or deadpan comedienne. It made me appreciate the underrated work of Elizabeth Hurley in the first AUSTIN POWERS, but that film came up with a matchless update for a sixties spy and the main character was both a retread and a reinvention. This Maxwell is too often milquetoast and a nebbish.
Unlike other TV adaptations for the big screen, GET SMART actually builds up a decent head of steam during its third act, a race against time to thwart a terrorist strike that invokes not just the small screen’s 24, but also the prescient seventies classics BLACK SUNDAY from John Frankenheimer as well as TWO-MINUTE WARNING.
The reveal of a double agent in the midst of Control comes as no surprise, since it’s the only other character who gets enough significant screen time to be of consequence, but GET SMART ends on a winning note, not unlike the original episodes, with the Chief feeling paternal pride for Max beating impossible odds… including himself.
GET SMART isn’t the disaster that many would anticipate, but it’s also not a homerun by any stretch of the imagination. This isn’t the unanticipated fun the first CHARLIE’S ANGELS was. (For one thing, there’s no Cameron Diaz and her “swirling ass.”)
This film proves Steve Carell is immensely likeable, but you knew that, and Pete Segal can handle better stuff than the Adam Sandler vehicles he’s been given, and nobody knew that.
While GET SMART “misses it by that much,” it does pay decent homage to the original show in many ways, but cannot equal it. The lack of a consistent tone will hinder audiences expecting an outrageous laugh riot in the legendary tradition of classic Brooks & Henry, but it’s not a disagreeable time killer, just not memorable. It's a sold C+ that younger audiences, namely kids, will like more than critics.
Despite the big screen pyrotechnics, this is the perfect movie to rent on DVD or watch on cable.
Also, as we’re in the midst of a writer’s strike, GET SMART ultimately proves that a big budget, strong cast and unexpectedly agile director can’t overcome a middling script.
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright got it right on the page in HOT FUZZ… and that was while paying homage to crap like POINT BREAK!
GET SMART deserves better.
Sorry about that.
Derek Flint
I grew up watching repeats of GET SMART and fell in love with it. The coolest thing was it was a real spy show and despite his bungling, Max could always somehow pull it together and save the day. You were always rooting for him. While being a spoof; the character was a legitimate action hero.
Don Adams’ indelible portrayal was the reason Agent 86 became a TV icon. Whenever there was daring do, Don was credible as a spy, convincingly throwing punches and handling firearms like nobody’s business.
The way Don held a machine gun in the pilot surprised me because he seemed comfortable with it, not like a comedian at all, so it came as no surprise when I watched an A&E Biography and found out Adams had served in the Marines during WW2.
GET SMART is probably the most revived TV show of all time. It was a theatrical movie in 1980. A TV movie in 1989. An updated Fox series featuring Andy Dick as Maxwell Smart’s son Zach in 1994. The casting of Dick made the show seem pro-abortion.
None of these later incarnations clicked and shared the same deficiency: Brilliant comedy writing, the hallmark of the original show, the brainchild of Mel Brooks & Buck Henry.
Now, almost forty years later, for the first time another actor steps into the shoe phone and portrays Maxwell Smart… the talented Steve Carell in a new big screen, big budget remake of yet another classic TV show.
The result, directed by Pete Segal, is a mixed bag. None of it particularly original or satirical, just decidedly good-natured and amiable. This GET SMART is pleasant at best, groan inducing and uninspired at worst.
Once again, despite a topflight cast and excellent production values, the weaknesses in this new GET SMART come from a mediocre screenplay that cobbles most of its key plot points from Rowan Atkinson’s earlier spy comedy JOHNNY ENGLISH.
The screenplay here is credited to Tom Astle and Matt Ember, whose previous movie FAILURE TO LAUNCH had about as many yuks as MUNICH.
Astle & Ember, a new age anti-Brooks & Henry, have reconceived the characters of Maxwell Smart and his female sidekick, Agent 99, in a rather bizarre fashion that will leave devotees of the original series perplexed and going WTF?
Obviously, Steve Carell isn’t a man of action. In fact, he looks like he’d get winded taking a leak, so his version of Maxwell Smart is a nerdy desk jockey who works as an intelligence analyst for CONTROL. His job is monitoring the activities of a sinister organization known as KAOS, that’s been updated for a post 9/11 world to a terrorist group.
Like Johnny English, Carell dreams of being a field operative and looks up to another agent, 23, played by Dwayne “Don’t Call Me Rock” Johnson as a live action video game hero. Rock does a good-natured riff on an action star, but with a undertone that serves as a plot point later on.
As if to underscore his outcast status, Carell’s Smart has been battling a weight problem and is a former chubby boy, a Kirstie Alley Goodyear blimp, prone to count his calories and munch on nutritious energy bars. (Whichever studio dolt gave this note should be sent to Abu Ghraib and forced to play nude “Twister” with the other detainees.)
After a surprise raid on Control’s headquarters wipes out most of its manpower, the group leader, The Chief, portrayed by a superb Alan Arkin in frustrated authority figure mode, is forced to send an ill equipped, virginal Smart into his very first mission. Once again, this is identical to Atkinson’s ENGLISH.
Max is assigned a female sidekick who’s more experienced than him, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 refigured as a Jennifer Garner kick-ass heroine. Trouble is, Hathaway looks young enough to be Carell’s daughter. When things get romantic, I thought they would set off an Amber alert.
The way they attempt to dodge this elephant in the room, as well as explain Hathaway’s inexplicable seniority, is to establish this 99 had plastic surgery to assume a new persona, since the Kaos raid compromised the classified identities of all Control agents.
Despite the Grand Canyon age gap, Carell and Hathaway share surprisingly good chemistry. However, scenes where they reminisce on their past discarded lives, intended as character arcs, are ham-fisted and as inept as the main character’s klutziness.
Unlike the original show, this GET SMART isn’t a scathing government satire, despite a smattering of limp political jokes, but a standard issue spy comedy.
Terrance Stamp portrays Seigfried, who’s nothing like the campy villain from the sixties show after which he’s named. The writing and the role don’t take full advantage of General Zod’s strengths, relegating him to a conventional Malcolm McDowell type bad guy. (Some of the scenes with him reminded me of the Eddie Murphy / Owen Wilson rehash of I SPY, a movie I walked out of… when it was on HBO.)
Shtarker, the habitually abused underling, fares much better because Ken Davitian, Borat’s infamous producer and sidekick, plays him. Davitian made film history by performing a nude fight scene that was like “Eastern Promises” in a parallel universe. Here he keeps his clothes on, mercifully, but still garners big belly laughs from his inane expressions and body language. Davitian proves inspired casting because he can make the phone book funny, and that’s about on par with the material he’s been handed.
There are laughs in GET SMART, but it’s never hilarious. At best you smile, especially when some gags are seemingly lifted verbatim from the source material. The performers earn their paydays in this one This is a strong, inventive cast and many of their lines and business feels improvised. Given the talents involved, you can bet they probably were.
The most successful aspects are the action scenes. Here, Pete Segal surprises as he handles mayhem and destruction with almost John Landis’ bygone brand of signature abandon. These sequences aren’t played for laughs, going for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and BOURNE IDENTITY verisimilitude. However, unlike a RUSH HOUR which mixes action with comedy, the tone of this reinvented SMART sometimes feels as confused as Mitt Romney during a debate. It often can’t make up its mind whether it’s a send-up or a real spy movie, a tone the original show deftly managed.
The supporting cast, including brief cameos from the original show and other recognizable faces, are pretty nominal.
Without giving anything away, one sequence pays direct homage to the original show and its classic credit sequence. The physical resemblance Carell sports to Don Adams within this stretch is surprising, and also feels like a heartfelt tribute to the man who will always be Maxwell Smart to a generation of people old enough to remember… or just old enough to work a DVD player.
There’s also an attempt to establish a “Lone Gunmen” group who offer Smart help . There were times in the film that I wish David Zucker wasn’t wasting his time on those awful SCARY MOVIE sequels and lent a helping hand, as this “Geek Squad” humor had a predictable sitcom feel and didn’t play well.
Once again in the story, like JOHNNY ENGLISH, Smart is discredited and must fight to redeem himself. Carell is an incredibly likeable performer and his innate decency is able to infuse the clichéd, by the numbers plot points with some genuine rooting interest.
You keep wishing the studio and producers hadn’t chosen GET SMART and instead made an original spy comedy, freeing Carell to come up with a character all his own… as opposed to being once again acting in the shadow of Paul Lynde (“Bewitched”), Ricky Gervais (“The Office”) and Jim Carrey (“Evan Almighty”).
When Carell forges his own fresh characterizations, as he did in ANCHORMAN, THE FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, he’s unbeatable. Stop giving this outstanding comic actor sloppy seconds!
Anne Hathaway doesn’t fare as well. While a hottie, her Agent 99 derides Smart so much she winds up seemingly castrating him half of the time. She handles action scenes just fine, but isn’t a particularly gifted straight woman or deadpan comedienne. It made me appreciate the underrated work of Elizabeth Hurley in the first AUSTIN POWERS, but that film came up with a matchless update for a sixties spy and the main character was both a retread and a reinvention. This Maxwell is too often milquetoast and a nebbish.
Unlike other TV adaptations for the big screen, GET SMART actually builds up a decent head of steam during its third act, a race against time to thwart a terrorist strike that invokes not just the small screen’s 24, but also the prescient seventies classics BLACK SUNDAY from John Frankenheimer as well as TWO-MINUTE WARNING.
The reveal of a double agent in the midst of Control comes as no surprise, since it’s the only other character who gets enough significant screen time to be of consequence, but GET SMART ends on a winning note, not unlike the original episodes, with the Chief feeling paternal pride for Max beating impossible odds… including himself.
GET SMART isn’t the disaster that many would anticipate, but it’s also not a homerun by any stretch of the imagination. This isn’t the unanticipated fun the first CHARLIE’S ANGELS was. (For one thing, there’s no Cameron Diaz and her “swirling ass.”)
This film proves Steve Carell is immensely likeable, but you knew that, and Pete Segal can handle better stuff than the Adam Sandler vehicles he’s been given, and nobody knew that.
While GET SMART “misses it by that much,” it does pay decent homage to the original show in many ways, but cannot equal it. The lack of a consistent tone will hinder audiences expecting an outrageous laugh riot in the legendary tradition of classic Brooks & Henry, but it’s not a disagreeable time killer, just not memorable. It's a sold C+ that younger audiences, namely kids, will like more than critics.
Despite the big screen pyrotechnics, this is the perfect movie to rent on DVD or watch on cable.
Also, as we’re in the midst of a writer’s strike, GET SMART ultimately proves that a big budget, strong cast and unexpectedly agile director can’t overcome a middling script.
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright got it right on the page in HOT FUZZ… and that was while paying homage to crap like POINT BREAK!
GET SMART deserves better.
Sorry about that.
Derek Flint
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See Evan Almighty and Dan in Real Life.
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...actually get somewhat involved in the action or really has more of an extended cameo?
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I liked point break :(
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Never heard of him.
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NOT CRAW - CRAW! CRAW!
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Dec 05, 2007 9:49:17 AM CST
"This isn’t the unanticipated fun the first CHARLIE’S ANGELS was
by bobo_vision
Thats where the reviewer lost all credibility. His shit-detector needs to be recalibrated.
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I guess I don't have to see the movie anymore, because he pretty much told me the whole story? Why he needed to go in depth for what is obviously a light comedy? Its not like we needed to discuss KEY plot points. If I see this movie I am not going to be like remember when Steve Carell found out about the double agent, MAN that was nuts! Not trying to be a dick, but this movie review could've been shortened to a paragraph like it will be for all other reviewers when it comes out.
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i really like it as a kid, but it wasn't that amazing. certainly the action wasn't that deftly handled.
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why would anyone even attempt this with a new maxwell smart. lame.
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The teaser for this had me absolutely rolling. Sure, it was just two or three gags (throwing the phone, the beads in the doorway), but they already have me convinced. Not convinced that it'll be a great movie, mind you, but they at least convinced me that it might just be worth my time. The rest of the movie may be a dud, but I've got hopes that it will at least be an amusing dud.
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needs more anne hathaway in black shirts and short shorts.
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The reason the relaunch with Andy Dick fell apart was because of NewsRadio, which he was cast in at about the same time.
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haha!
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It is.
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... really fell apart was... uh... it was Andy Dick... I mean, c'mon!
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I hate plot points being given away.
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Dec 05, 2007 10:57:49 AM CST
thats the second worst review i've ever read...
by gatsbys west egg omlet
just kidding. i was just showing off my Get Smart smarts.
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Dec 05, 2007 11:01:57 AM CST
When things get romantic, I thought they would set off an Amber
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I can't imagine running down to the theater in a tizzy and slapping down $10 for this. But, I like Carrel and I like Get Smart, so I'll put it on Netflix.
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couldn't resist.
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Little Miss Sunshine.
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FYI: the term is "derring do."
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... I said "Good Day, sir"!
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Not defending the film, but Carell and Garner would set off an Amber alert? Garner is 35. Carell is 45. Hardly a huge age disparity, especially in the world of movies. Seems like a strange thing to bitch about.
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well whadaya know. I'll take this review over the one posted earlier.
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Jesus, does it really take a term paper to say, "This is a mediocre movie that will make $30 million at the box office. Everyone else will Netflix it 3 months later if they need a slight diversion." This is the kind of movie where you yell, "Rental!" when you see the trailer.
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I guess a 21 year difference ain't that much anymore, huh? What if she was 18 and he 39?
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He praises Charlie's Angels, but dares to deride the beautiful POINT BREAK!?! That's when I knew his taste was complete crap.
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a 25 year-old in real life, so the 20 year gap seems possible.I couldn't find a list of the biggest Age Gaps in film, but here's one of celebrities:http://rivekthefallen.googlepages.com/0503070717.jpg
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It was AWESOME!
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How often "Missed it by that much" will be used in reviews for this flick? Starting.....now.
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The movie company had rights to the name and only want to get something, anything out there with the Get Smart logo on it. This happens all the time in other genres, when something is too weak to stand on its own they tag it with the name of something that already has an established fan-base, while basically throwing out everything that was good about the original. This will suffer the same fate as Underdog. But the movie companies don't care--enough people will go to see it when it opens and rent it on video that they will make their money back--that is all that matters.
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supposedly in a movie called Havoc, and wasn't there some nudity in Brokeback...hers I mean..?
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that was one of Spielberg's funniest films, wasn't it? "It's the only movie where Jews are kickin' ass!"
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I hate plot points being given away in the subject line of the talkbacks when I went to so much trouble to avoid reading them in the actual review. Thanks!
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Just as easily as you skipped over the review, you could've skipped over my post.
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Your face looks like a vagina, JohnnyAztec!
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So is Nick Cannon, dad. Nick Cannon's hilarious.
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Still waiting for the three disc directors cut to come out.
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Has this idiot never heard of "Star Trek"?
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I can understand why you would think a new Get Smart would work. It should translate to any time, and most of the characters are standard issue. The insurmountable problem isn't the lack of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It's doing it without Don Adams. He managed to create a rounded, surprisingly complex and sympathetic character out of what should have been a one note joke. He so inhabited this role that it's impossible to recast. You might as well remake Goundhog Day without Bill Murry.
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Star Trek was only revived as a series of movies with the original cast. The Next Generation and the other knockoffs were all considered spinoffs. The original Get Smart has been brought back four times, stupid.
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Ive always loved Get Smart, but looking back and seeing how succesful that was, and how "Police Squad!" only lasted about 4 episodes continues to baffle me.
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"Police Squad!" had six episodes. "Get Smart!" lasted longer due to the character based humor. "Sledge Hammer!" was the same way. I didn't dig Andy Richter's last show.
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I still think that Police Squad got treated unfairly. Thank god that there were 3 naked gun movies. It almost made up for the lack of the series. Almost
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"Star Trek" was revived as an animated series, as a series of novels, as a comic book series from four different publishers, as seven movies as a Broadway musical, as a candy bar, as a series of action figures from several different manufacturers, as a poster, as a ball-gag, as a series of AMT models, as a panty liner, as three different types of cheese and two kinds of sausage, as a record and read along comic book set, as a line of gourmet soups and as a tattoo on your mama. All Get Smart had was two movies, a next generation spin-off, a board game and a line of tampons.Kirk's communicator or Smart's shoe, which would you rather have as a cell phone?
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You took the words right out of my mouth. But in fairness to Dunderman, I will point out that "Get Smart" had a line of tie-in books. It's a shame that doesn't make him any more correct. I'd advise Dangerwipe to know what he's talking about before name-calling.
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Product tie-ins aren't revivals, idiots. Those are auxiliary, asshats. If that were the case, the original "Get Smart" had more toys than "Star Trek" at the time because it was more popular. It had paperbacks, comic books, toys, lunch pails. That doesn't even count recent merchandising and Sideshow dolls. Based on your obtuse criteria, then "Dark Shadows" would match "Star Trek," except it only had two movies, two TV revivals, which includes an unsold pilot. You're both clumsy as you are stupid. I suppose you consider each and ever "Star Wars" comic book as a sequel. Now, both of you go pump each other.
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Inspector Gadget, of course. It's not just the fact that Don Adams did the voice -- I've seen the pilot (where some details are different and he has a mustache) and the derivation from GET SMART is pretty obvious.
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Creative accounting when you realize you've been beat, but just can't admit defeat. Fine, we'll count your way. According to your original post, "Get Smart" has been revived four times - 1) a theatrical release; 2) a made-for-TV movie; 3) an updated series; 4) the upcoming movie. (Now listen, DildoMan. This is where I teach you your numbers over four.) "Star Trek" has been revived as 1) a Saturday morning cartoon 2) a theatrical release 3) another theatrical release 4) another theatrical release 5) another theatrical release 6) another theatrical release 7) another theatrical release and 8) an upcoming theatrical release. So I won't count "The Next Generation", even though it takes place on the Enterprise, nor will I count the other spin-offs, even though you have no problem counting the '90s version of "Get Smart". However, if you can count two separate "Get Smart" movies, then I can count seven separate "Star Trek" movies. I even tried to throw it your way by not counting "Generations", even though it had original cast members. Gee, it just wasn't enough. Why is it so hard to admit when you're mistaken, DorkMan? Do you often have to work this hard to make the facts conform to your obvious misconceptions? And do you realize when you're wrong, and you're just too stubborn to admit it, or do you actually wallow in the belief that because you said it, it must be right? Before you show off any more of your childishness and stupidity, you should pump yourself and think about it for a while. Get bent, penis.
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Yes, "Get Smart" has been revived four times. And if they make a sequel to the upcoming feature film, that doesn't count as another "revival" as the word means a "restoration of use." A revival means the entity in question is active again, so counting each movie sequel in the "Star Trek" series in order to try and win your argument just underscores that you're truly the functional illiterate and victim of inbreeding your posts imply you to be. By the way, since you make no sense and breathe through your mouth, where are the Mad magazine parodies in your equation? Now, go and jerk off to a picture of old Uhura and get some sleep, houseboy.
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Agent 99 derides Smart so much she winds up seemingly castrating him half of the time.
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I didn't read your post. You had the spoiler stated in the title of the post. Please be more careful next time.
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I was unaware that we were only using the definition of "revival" that is convenient to you. I was mistaken in thinking that I could count tie-in/spin-off/separate related properties the same way you could. I was actually using logic and reason, while being completely under the false impression that you could do the same. I made the mistake of breaking my own policy by trying to get into a friendly (even though you called me a moron for no reason) debate with a lunatic, child, or ass. You're obviously some combination of those three. You're also obviously only on here to be a stubborn jerk. So I concede. You're right. 4=9. Or 10. Or whatever number it is that will make you happy. You are absolutely right. "Get Smart" had two separate movie, while the "Star Trek" franchise just had one. "Get Smart" was updated in the '90s, but "Star Trek" was never updated in any way, shape, or form. The upcoming "Get Smart" counts because you want it to, but the upcoming "Star Trek" doesn't count because . . . oh, it doesn't matter does it? It doesn't count because the sky is plaid in your world. And the animated "Star Trek" doesn't count because there's no comparable "Get Smart" product. Again, my apologies. I made the mistake of going into this without knowing that you're always right. I just can't fight your logic, DunceMan. But then I have a feeling no one can. I've wasted enough time with you. Have the final word (I know you can't resist) and declare yourself the victor. I'm going back to discussing film with people from the planet Earth.
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That sucks! She's pretty much my only reason to see this.
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Get Smart began and ended with Don Adams. I cringed when I read that this show was being given the Hollywood treatment. I watched the trailer, tried to like it, but at the end of the day IT'S NOT DON ADAMS!!
No offence to Carrell - I liked 40-year-old-virgin - but having some other guy trying to play Maxwell Smart is like having some other guy play Captain Kirk (you see what I did there;) or having some other guy be the voice of Darth Vader!!
It was never going to work and - surprise surprise - it didn't! -
Thank you, Mr. Krantz, for conceding your idiocy that refuses to acknowledge a dictionary's definition of "revival." I guess the James Bond franchise has been "revived" over twenty times and "Star Wars" six. I suppose if we were to count each episode of a series as a "revival," then "Get Smart" still might win. The above as a superb review, but it flew over your head and the other plebians here because you're all knuckle dragging morons who live with your parents, masturbate for a living and rub your cum into the carpet where a Roomba gets to whiff it. Krantz, you are a non-entity, a "Star Trek" geek whose dream in life is to blow Picard. You are the reason America has gone down the tubes and I hope to hell we don't read about you shooting up a shopping mall as that would take commitment. Next time, before arguing with a real man, try and look up the meaning of the word you're arguing about, you soiled bit of underwear, and for God's sake wear a condom the next time you have sex with your brother so you don't make him sick.
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"And the animated "Star Trek" doesn't count because there's no comparable "Get Smart" product."
Someone else cited INSPECTOR GADGET. Did Matthew Broderick make you hard, buttboy? This was a great review, but you thought the person who wrote it was an idiot. The idiot was you, you 7/11 clerk who's probably part of a sleeper cell. Do you pee sitting down? How many "revivals" are there in the "Batman" franchise? Does each movie count, or is there such a thing as a "series" stupid. -
...someone who's always right is so wrong, expecially when replying to an obvious joke post.If Inspector Gadget counts as a Get Smart cartoon show, don't forget the Bill Dana Show where Don Adams first honed the character and that show where he managed a supermarket.Though I imagine Mr. krantz will point out that if those count as Get Smart properties than TJ Hooker, Rescue 911 and Boston legal count as Star Trek shows.I'm being flippant, but your name calling is simply rude. You mentioned that they Mad parodies weren't mentioned, but I DID say there was a Star Trek Musical. Which appeared in Mad Magazine. Let me keep explaining this until it gets down to your level. So tht means that I did mention the thing you said I didn;t mention. which means you were wrong. Again. As usual. Which I stres because you were wrong about theire being more Get smart properties than Str Trek properties. which there weren't. Which makes your erroneous assertion that there were incorrect. Because you were wrong. And why you said wasn't correct. or true. But I'm not calling you a liar, you sinply made a mistake, and I forgive you, both for stubbornly refusing to acknolwedge your error and for the needless namecalling and childish rudeness. Feminine hygeine product.
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I really should have proofread that typo and misspelling filled message before clicking on post.Ignoring the fact that there were four Star Trek sequel series, Next Gen, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise (well, three sequels and a prequel?)... Which we will ignore since there were never any Get Smart spin-off series.There were two Get Smart films (and I'm being generous in counting a made-for-TV movie as a feature) and six Star Trek movies with the original cast. (Unless by your math two failed movies counnt as two and one successful film franchise counts as one.) And one combining the original and Next Gen cast.there was one attempt to revive the TV series, as the awful New Get Smart with Andy Dick. There was one attempt to revive the original series with the original cast members: Star Trek - the Animated Series.There was one paperback books eries based on Get Smart. There were at least two paperback book series based on the original Star Trek: the Blish adaptations of TV series episodes and the original novels.there was one series of Dell/Gold Key comic books based on Get Smart. There have been at least four comic book series based on theo original series Star Trek, from Gold Key, DC, Marvel and whoever's currently doing them. There is one movie coming out with an all new Get Smart cast, and there is a new Star Trek movie being made which also casts new actors in theo original series roles.There was one Get Smart Mad magazine parody, there were at least two Mad parodies of the original Star Trek, including "Star Trek: the Musical".We won't get into licensed merchandising since I don't remember any Get Smart model kits, props or action figures. Unless you want to count the Sports Illustrated Sneaker Phone as a shoe phone.
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Here in The United States of America we call Danger Man "Secret Agent". If you can't speak the language move back to foreign country land and live in your mail box with Penfold.
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So now the discussion has to do with which show had more merchandising as opposed to the term "revival"? Such poor semantics, Park. And yes, "Get Smart" had an AMT model kit of the Sunbeam, there were pen radios, spy purses and raygun toys as well as board games, puzzles, coloring books and an electronic quiz. Also bubble gum cards, a Jack Davis poster, a lunch pail and recent licensees include keychains and the already mentioned Sideshow figures of Max and The Chief, both which have sold out. Try eBay and see what else you find. Also while looking there, see if a brain is for sale. You're missing one. Also a cock that works.
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Dec 06, 2007 1:15:19 PM CST
Soo...calling people terrorists is an insult on the same level o
by reel american hero
That makes me laugh like nothing else has all day.
'Fuck you you fuckin terrorist'....oh man that amuses me. -
There is a "Get Smart" play and if you check the Google news, you'll see many schools are performing it right now. It's of the dinner theater variety. What school do you go to, Park? A "special" one that helps you "learn"?
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Steve Carell ...."likeable"? Did I read that right? Wait, come on that's a joke, right? Maybe not....maybe all the over the top mugging, shouting IS a good substitute for actual comedic acting. Wow. Thanks to giants like Carell, Farell , Carey, comedy lives! Thank you Jebus!
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was a cooler show than get smart, which always made me want to projectile vomit.
the best spy show ever made was secret agent/danger man with patrick mcgoohan and if anyone disagrees with me they can suck my non-existent dick while i moan in gratitude that no one gives a shit about remaking it. -
is danger man. not secret agent. i know this because i have wanted to bang good old PMG since i was a wee lassie.
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