Get Smart (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)

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Actor: Anne Hathaway, Steve Carell
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Get Smart (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: 5 Star Movie, 3 Star Blu Ray
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a very entertaining movie. Steve Carell is absolutely perfect for this role; a very minor extension of his Office ignoramus role. Obviously it gets a little sluggish near the end, but the earlier parts more than compensate. The Blu Ray is a little disappointing though. Very grainy.

DVD Review: Not what I expected, but still enjoyable
Summary: 4 Stars

I was expecting a lot more comedy, but it was still an enjoyable film. Instead of comedy, there is a lot of action with a sprinkling of comedy throughout. I thought it was a decent origin movie and I hope they make a sequel. The cast was great.

DVD Review: A lot of fun
Summary: 4 Stars

Max Smart does his job too well. As an analyst for CONTROL, the most classified of covert counter-espionage agencies, Max delivers intelligence reports that almost nobody ever reads. Max dreams of the day when he can join his idols, Agents 23 (Dwayne Johnson) and 99 (Ann Hathaway), but his boss decides that Max is too important to waste him in the field.

When CONTROL's seemingly secure headquarters is attacked from within, and its roster of worldwide agents is compromised, Max is hastily promoted to "Agent" and foisted on a reluctant Agent 99. Their mission: find the base of the likely attackers, the implacable KAOS, and destroy it. Led by the sinister Siegfried (Terence Stamp), KAOS's attack is likely the prelude to an even wider attack. Lacking spy-smarts, and to 99's chagrin, Max finds his training sorely inadequate to the task.

I don't want to say any more about the movie's plot, which could have fit snugly in an episode of the show. That said, "Get Smart" is actually a lot of fun, seldom hilarious, "Get Smart" manages to be consistently funny and entertaining. The smooth script deftly maneuvers between newer material and the original - never losing sight of what made the old show fun while also not being enslaved by it.

The movie's strengths are its stars - impossible to overlook how this could have been another Hollywood retread of an old TV show, it's the performances that bring "Get Smart" over the top. Alan Arkin is great as Chief, while Stamp deserves real props for managing to be funny (rather than pathetic) playing the most serious guy in a comedy. Best of all are Steve Carrel and Hathaway. Carrel creates a Max that is decidedly different from Don Adams (though he does channel Adams in one extended sequence set in a hidden KAOS weapons factory, possibly as a tribute, but also to remind you how far Carrel has gone his own way). Hathaway is surprisingly effective as 99 (at times she even sounds like Barbara Feldon), playing as the sexy counterpoint to Max's undersexed virgin spy. Never a laugh riot, "Get Smart" supplies a steady stream of funny lines, and you'll likely be chortling about "muffins of mass destruction" long after you forgot you caught this flick.

DVD Review: CAN'T WATCH IT!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars

Listen to this old saying and remember it: Never Trust Anything digital from Amazon.I paid money to watch it online and I can't watch it. Horrible, absolutely horrible. Now I know some of you gonna criticize me and tell me things like "then don't rate it" or "this review is irrelevant". My response is how is it irrelevant? Imagine you pay for a product and you got nothing, of course it's a horrible product. And I hope this serves a warning to everyone.

DVD Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great little comedy. Alan Arkin is a hidden little gem in this flick. Steve Carrell gets all the obvious humor and makes a great Maxwell Smart. And Anne Hathaway is hot. Dwayne Johnson does a great job as well. My oh my how far "The Rock" has come. All that aside Alan Arkin steals the show, in my opinion. This is a fun little show. Enjoy.

Description of Get Smart (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)

Maxwell smart agent 86 for control battles the forces of kaos with the more competent agent 99 at his side. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/04/2008 Starring: Steve Carell Dwayne Johnson Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg13

The Cold War may be over, but that doesn't mean it can't still be milked for laughs. Get Smart, the sassy film version of the Mel Brooks/Buck Henry-created '60s TV satire, brings plenty of elements of the original series and spins it freshly into the new world of bad guys in the 21st century, pretty much without losing a beat. Steve Carell is perfectly cast as the bumbling Maxwell Smart--but in a slick improvement on the TV show, Smart isn't really hapless--though he has a bit of a self-esteem problem (all around his apartment are sticky notes with exhortations like "You can DO it!"). Carell's Maxwell Smart is a sharp techie researcher at the uber-secret crime-battling agency, CONTROL, who's just a little out of his element out in the field. As his data-crunching sidekick Bruce (Masi Oka of Heroes) says, "We're the ones guarding democracy!", aghast that Max would want to be an agent.

But Max longs for the action enjoyed by the likes of Agent 23 (a godlike Dwayne Johnson), with glamorous deployments around the world. When he finally gets his dream assignment--as the newly minted Agent 86--he's paired up with the slick and experienced Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), who provides great lines, not to mention some interesting chemistry, while she continually saves Max from harm's way. The cast is terrific, with memorable appearances by Alan Arkin as the Chief, Terrence Stamp as the head of the uber-evil KAOS, and Bill Murray as a (literally) put-out-to-pasture agent whose spy post is inside a tree ("really great, old-school stuff" he calls his assignment). And there's plenty of action, explosions, and creative shootouts with the bad guys (highlight: a freefall from a plane, with two people and just two parachutes). But it's Carell and his combination of insecure yearning and deadpan delivery that make Get Smart as, well, smart as it is. When Max learns he's finally been promoted to agent, he slips into the Cone of Silence--which unfortunately is malfunctioning. "I'm so happy! I'm so happy!" he yells, as his colleagues sit nearby hearing the whole thing. Discovering that, he purses his lips and says, "Well, that's a sucker-punch to the gonads." Sorry about that. --A.T. Hurley

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