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Would you believe GET SMART has an international trailer out?
Hey folks, Harry here - I like Steve Carrell - I'm not sure if I'm going to like this though. I was quite fond of the original GET SMART - but it wasn't like rocket science. It wasn't amazing. It was a goofy show that I loved to death as a kid and haven't really re-visited since. But this trailer is much better than the teaser - and has me thinking it might at least be fun. What do y'all think?
Download this to your shoe phone!!!
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Looks to be promising in this one... I hope.
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But the "maneuvering through a laser field" has become the new "old people dancing to hip-hop".
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it won't be great, but worth seeing. if it were anyone else, I'd probably just wait for the DVD.and Alan Arkin, come on. I would watch him paint his bathroom. I still think his performance in The Russians Are Coming, is one of the funniest performances in cinema history.
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This movie has... no reason... This movie has... no reason... ... to livvvvve!
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I thought it was hilarious.
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They missed it by thaaaaaaaaaaaaat fucking much.
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i hope!
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Never been this high up before. Trippy.
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You missed it by.... nevermind.
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Missed it by thaaat much.
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I missed good ol' days, when everyone walked nude in the streets.
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But Austin ripped off Bond and this so that's okay.
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*cough*cough*
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Why no love for the good old USA?
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Maybe if you're a little kid and totally unfamiliar with the original show... but for anyone who knows what this is a remake of, this movie looks incredibly UNfunny.Even Mr. Bean looks more entertaining than this.
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Johnny English was terrible and I can't see this being any better. A real shame too since Steve Carell is a funny guy.
I can even imagine him in the role of Maxwell Smart if the film right. Sadly it seems that they have decided to take everything that was wrong with JE and stick it into this film -
It was dream casting. It was a show/scenario whose time had come again. I was convinced they could do no wrong.
And yet, total crap.
I hope they backed up a truck full of cash money to the homes of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.
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Good Lord I thought JAY & SILENT BOB killed that scene from ever being used in a spy movie. Why do we have to sit thru 5 minutes of that "joke" again ? This preview makes the NUDE BOMB look good.
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that teaser ...just kinda bleh
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I agree, Carrell and Arkin may be the only thing that can save this one (the script is, as I understand it, pretty bad - not Steve-Martin-Pink-Panther-bad, but bad) but, as a fan of the original from WAY back (as in age 8) I'll see it... I may be the only person IN the theatre, but I'll see it....
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Max Almighty. Awful!
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yay!
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Alan Arkin, Steve Carrell, and I love the Rock. So yeah, I will see it. It looks better than Steve Martin's "The Pink Panther" and I actually kind of liked that movie.. you know, as I was watching it. I haven't seen it since though.
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I feel you, but I love me some Carrell, and I truly believe that he might make this passable. not great, as I said before, but watchable.
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He has has two main good roles - at the daily show and in the office. Everything else, including the 40 year old virgin, has been average. I expect the same from this movie
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fuck, what kind of geek are you?...none at all!
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at somepoint, most of us are going to watch this b/c ann hathaway is in it.
let's just accept this is going to be a PoS. stay home. wait for it on cable, and fast forward through the boring parts. -
this looks funny as hell.
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the sad little haters who don't like anything and presume to tell us what is funny or not funny have made an appearance to spew chunks of their depression all over us. Thanks, buuuuuuut that was funny as hell!!!! I agree with you harry in that I grew up with the original and loved it, I'm thinking if anyone can fill Don Adams phone shoes it's Carrel. Fingers crossed. Peace.
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Oh happybunni happybunni, if you feel the forty year old virgin was just average I feel very little can bring you joy. Sniff. so sad. (Lexapro™) be well.
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I imagine DVD sets of the series will start being released in stores around the time the movie comes out (You can get them now through Time-Life, however), so you'll be seeing how fucking brilliant Mel Brooks, Buck Henry, Don Adams and Barbara Feldon were in their prime...
...and...loving it.
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Every cloud has a silver lining, people. I'm amazed at the amount of faith in the film industry demonstrated by all the folks who need to flame these movies in talkbacks. Very twentysomething. I guess I can remember when my expectations were so high. (sigh) You'll learn...
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Didn't see a single accomplished pratfall or hear one funny joke in that baggy-ass trailer.
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no. but it was a funny show, definitely a staple of 60s sitcom, up there with Beverly Hillbillies and Betwitched/I Dream of Jeanie
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but unfortunately not that great of a trailer. I guess it can't be much worst than the last two Austin Powers movies, can it?
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... and I'll say it again. They better have an awesome opening titles sequence with Carrel walking through craploads of different slamming iron doors, ending in him disappearing down an phone booth/elevator! That was really the only good part of the series and it'll be the only good part of this movie... count on it!
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As Long as Hymie and Agent 13 are in it, I'm there.
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this looks funny. carrell was made to make don adams proud in this role.
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Heath Ledger is STILL dead.
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Maybe, but I have to say the last scene where he throws the phone cracked my shit up big time. Carrell as Maxwell Smart doesn't seem all that different from Carrell as Michael in The Office, which, all things considered, isn't such a bad thing; I'm currently suffering from Office withdrawals...
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I can just tell the film will probably be bad. Enjoyed the trailer though. Some funny moments. Probably the only ones in the film.
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where's the red band trailer with Smart spanking Agent 99 for being a bad, bad girl?
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it's Get Smart, so it will rock!
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Let's face it: the 60's spy parody was already co-opted to everyone's satisfaction by Mike Myers and "Austin Powers." And for some reason I'm getting really tired of Carrel, which I thought I'd never say. He's done too many unfunny, crap movies lately, and this looks like just another in a succession. Also, I cannot STAND Anne Hathaway - she is just like that marginally talented girl in the college drama department who kept getting all the lead roles for no discernable reason (other than, probably, her oral sex skills). She's a self-conscious, obvious actress who can't stop mugging for the camera. It's tiresome. Actually, those last two lines would probably also apply to Carrel as well these days.
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...as when he mentions the SHOE PHONE. Because we can't SEE that he's holding a SHOE PHONE. Do they think international audiences are dumber?
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Why not a Shoe Cell Phone?
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that's a running gag from the original show i just never understood. and this new international trailer looked decent. i watched the teaser again last night with the bucket list {excellent film} and the entire audience was a bunch of old people who loved the original show and that fucking shoe phone. i'll go see it when it comes out and i thought johnny english WAS funny, mainly because it was bond mixed with bean.
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cell phone.
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that tv show needs a movie.
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i laughed at the end, tho i think that was a direct steal from the tv show.
as for the shoe phone gimmick, the tv show was in an age where there were no wireless phones and no cell phones. and generally, phones were big and heavy, and when you dailed them they went whrrrrrrrr dt dt dt dt dt whrrrrrr dt dt whrrrr dt whrrrr dt dt dt.
So in that time, even a portable phone would have been entirely impossible to hide on your person. "hey whats in the big box you always carry around? Are you a secret spy or something?"
So having it be a shoe made it something he could always have, that even when captured he'd likely not be without. -
This actually looks funny. I may actually go see this now. I only wish he would have said "would you believe...". And also the "missed it by that much" line doesn't really work when you're hanging form a rope. But anyway, good stuff!
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Probably won't end up seeing this till it has been out for a couple of years on DVD.
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You know, I loved Don Adams and the original Get Smart series. Being ancient of days, I saw it first run. Sean Connery was James Bond and I had read all the Ian Fleming books. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Mission Impossible were current and popular. Get Smart was just brilliant from the start playing with all that. People laughed out loud watching...I know we did at my house. Remember...we didn't know all the gags and bits yet. "Hymie, kill the light" PFFT, PFFT "OK, Max" It was "must see TV" before NBC drove that phrase into the ground. I say all this to make a point; the timing for this flick may be perfect. Contrasted to Bourne, the rebooted James Bond (which goes back to the hard Connery badass vibe), Iraq War versus Cold War, a similar economic climate, this may be just the time for Maxwell Smart. I laughed during the trailer and guffawed at the bit with the "element of surprise" at the end. If this doesn't end up being the best of the film, and there's more to see, it very well may be a huge hit. As I said, huge fan of the original, and this didn't piss me off. Quite the opposite, I am looking forward to it. You know, not a few people thought remaking a gothic horror novel from the 1800's, written by a woman, into a comedy was a idiotic idea. Thankfully, Mel Brooks made "Young Frankenstein" anyway.
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But what made Max great was he was supremely confidant and never thought he was an idiot. And he ended up being successful anyway. I'll probably give it a shot, anyway.
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...but I only saw a trailer for a dollar store rip off version of a classic TV show.
How dare writers go on strike when this is the crap they dish out all the time?
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that trailer just pulled me right out of it. Fucking sucks too because I am a Get Smart fan. Granted this is just a trailer but if that was supposed to pull me into the movie by creating some laughs to goat me it did not do the trick. Bummer.
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The NUDE BOMB was *awful*. This film looks to be ... eh, *not good* at worst. But it's no GET SMART, AGAIN! which was the second and quite funny GET SMART movie.
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Jan 25, 2008 10:19:14 PM CST
"...And go ahead and get yourself some fag rags, Max."
by burnhollywood
Good to see Carrell and Arkin together again, at least...
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>They better have an awesome opening titles sequence with Carrel walking through craploads of different slamming iron doors, ending in him disappearing down an phone booth/elevator! That was really the only good part of the series and it'll be the only good part of this movie...
The only good part of the series? Not hardly. I've just finished re-watching (several times) the opener of the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE send-up episode of GET SMART where Smart is in a bus terminal, getting his briefing from a portable reel-to-reel recorder set in a baggage coin locker. Once finished, the recording self destructs, but gets it wrong and every OTHER locker is trashed, except that one. Max takes the still-playing recorder out of the locker, sets it on the ground, jumps up and down on it, then tries clubbing it ... to no avail. Finally he picks the bulky box up, slips it partly under his coat and tries to look nonchalant as he walks out with the thing still blaring out his mission data. Riot, riot! Or the classic where Max barely avoids getting blown up and shot, then learns from a KAOS agent that there's a contract out on his head and that he won't live out the day. Smart replies breezily "I've got news for you, fella, anyone wants to collect that reward will have to do it over *my* *dead* *body*!" At which point Max pauses, thinks about what he's just said, and the resulting facial expression practically justifies the invention of television all on its own.
Next to this SEINFELD is about as creative/funny as watching pain dry. -
tee hee
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...dreadful.
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...like maybe it will suck 3-week old donkey? Who knows?
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