Get Smart (2008, Comedy Action Movie) – 5/10 review

Director: Peter Segal Steve Carell: Maxwell Smart Anne Hathaway: Agent 99 Dwayne Johnson: Agent 23 Alan Arkin: The Chief Terence Stamp: Siegfried Terry Crews: Agent 91 David Koechner: Larabee James Caan: The President Executive Producer: Peter Segal Executive Producer: Steve Carell Writer (Characters’ Creator): Mel Brooks Writer (Characters’ Creator): Buck Henry Writer: Tom J. Astle Writer: Matt Ember Consultant: Mel Brooks Consultant: Buck Henry

Get Smart (2008) After all their agents are compromised, CONTROL is left only with Agent 99 (fresh from facial reconstruction) and newly promoted star analyst Maxwell Smart to combat the conniving evil of KAOS. 5/10 It feels mean to say that there’s two-and-a-half minutes of fun with the minimum required imagination in-between to fulfil the running time but, even though it’s just entertaining enough, the vacuum of intelligence, a disdain for the audience and an uncertain tone (is he a doofus or not?) really use up goodwill generated by the stars Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Dwayne Johnson. And will somebody please give Dwayne Johnson something amazing to be brilliant in. Remarkably, his fun feature film debut The Scorpion King remains his best starring role. This movie contains mild swear words, mild adult dialogue and violence, some extreme violence and a homosexual sex joke. Classified 12A by BBFC. Persons under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.