Get Smart

[Moderator1]

No thread? I even searched and the only thing I found was started two years ago by d_b of all people!
If there is another one, oh well.

Anyway, The Queen and I had our every-six-months date tonight and went to see this. Overlooking the fact that tickets, two Coke Zeros and a popcorn cost us 38 bucks (or two months of Netflix), it was an enjoyable evening. Funny movie, though I wonder how much those who didn't grow up with Get Smart will appreciate it.

Previews for the Will Ferrell movie - Step Brothers? - looked pretty good, too. Not a massive fan of his but we may make the theater for a movie, not a play, again before summer ends.

 

[dreunc1542]

I was interested in seeing this the first time I saw the previews (instead I saw Wall*E tonight which was fantastic). I think Carell is the perfect person to play Maxwell Smart. My roommate who saw the preview at the same time thought it looked okay, but also had never heard of Get Smart. I found that very strange.

 

[Moderator1]

I need to get out more. Sex and The City (no interest) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (interest) are already gone.

 

[dreunc1542]

I need to get out more. Sex and The City (no interest) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (interest) are already gone.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was very funny.

 

[Moderator1]

My kid says he can't watch How I Met Your Mother anymore.

 

[Omar_dont_scare]

Me and Mrs. Omar went and caught this one during opening weekend. We found it very funny.

 

[dooley_womack1]

This is one of those movies that the trailer is really discouraging me from seeing. Then again, I saw numerous Get Smart TV episodes over the years, and Carrell being so different from Don Adams' brilliant clipped delivery is a downside to me wanting to see it. And does the Rock's character have an equivalent on the old TV show?

 

[lisa_simpson]

This is one of those movies that the trailer is really discouraging me from seeing. Then again, I saw numerous Get Smart TV episodes over the years, and Carrell being so different from Don Adams' brilliant clipped delivery is a downside to me wanting to see it. And does the Rock's character have an equivalent on the old TV show?

He does not, but don't let that discourage you, because Dwayne "no longer The Rock" Johnson is actually quite funny. Carell and Anne Hathaway have good chemistry, too, rivaling Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. They're not trying to outright ripoff the original, because it would be damn near impossible, but there are subtle nods to the TV show (I watched it on Nick at Nite, that's how I know these things) and Carell is about the only actor alive who could pull off playing an updated version of Maxwell Smart.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Yeah, I know he's not the Rock, but I'm lazy.

And the trailer just makes it seems more slapsticky than the TV show, which was just slapsticky enough.

 

[Armchair_QB]

We went to see it last weekend and really enjoyed it. Carrell was a great choice to play Smart. And I agree that The Rock was pretty good too.

Anybody catch the cameo by Bernie Kopell? He played Siegfried in the TV show.

 

[SockPuppet]

Get Smart? Get me Anne Hathaway.

 

[waterytart]

Get Smart? Get me Anne Hathaway.

Presumably, all it will take is being a very handsome, very wealthy financier who's *not* on his way to jail.

 

[shotglass]

I've been anxious to see "Get Smart," but when "WALL-E" came out, we went to say that first Sunday night. (Really, really cute movie. It's worth going to see.)

Hope to see Carell & Hathway this weekend sometime. I'm glad Carell was smart enough not to try to be Don Adams for this role.

 

[Wenders]

Then again, I saw numerous Get Smart TV episodes over the years, and Carrell being so different from Don Adams' brilliant clipped delivery is a downside to me wanting to see it.

That's my biggest reservation about seeing it. I'm not the biggest fan of Steve Carell and I just don't think he can pull it off.

That being said, I almost want to see it just because I love the TV show. (Like lisa_simpson, I also spent wayyyy too much of my childhood watching Nick at Nite...well, before it put on Roseanne, Home Improvement and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, all of which I can remember not being in re-runs...as well as TV Land.)

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Carell and Anne Hathaway have good chemistry,

I'd like to have some chemistry with Anne Hathaway. Hubba hubba

 

[mpcincal]

My sister treated to me to it for my birthday weekend before last. Very, very funny movie. Some nice nods to the TV series, but they don't overdo it. And the way they got the car, suit and shoe phone into the movie was pretty clever.

Also, though I went to see it for the comedy, the action sequences in the movie are quite good.

Very strong recommendation from me for this movie.

 

[txsportsscribe]

i've seen get smart, the hulk, iron man, indiana jones, hancock and baby mama in the last month and actually enjoyed get smart the most. do not, repeat, do not waste your money on baby mama.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

I didn't even know there was a Get Smart before this movie, and I enjoyed it.

 

[dooley_womack1]

i've seen get smart, the hulk, iron man, indiana jones, hancock and baby mama in the last month and actually enjoyed get smart the most. do not, repeat, do not waste your money on baby mama.

I though Baby Mama was pretty decent.

 

[shockey]

wayne, of kidney transplant fame to SportsJournalists.com members, and i loved "get smart." we'd watch reruns while shooting pool in his basement before and after school in thr early '70s. spoke to wayne today and he saw the movie the day it came out. he said it was "okay," high praise from a comedy aficionado such as himself. oh, and he hadf high praise for ms. hathaway. 8) 8) 8)
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