Review of Get Smart (2008) by Chads. — 20 Jun 2008

Remaking "Tennessee Tuxedo" might've been the more meliorative idea than pumping some parodic comedy with a light touch such as "Get Smart" with steroidal action. Penguins are still a hot commodity.

Bono could play the walrus, again. "Get Smart" finds the right balance of action and comedy when Max(Steve Carell) and Agent 99(Anne Hathaway) are overseas infiltrating KAOS, but when the secret agents return to the states, they separate, and the film loses momentum.

There's also a miscalculation of what "Get Smart" needs, as the comedic half of the formula gets framed and hijacked by a storyline that is too large in scale. This nude bomb doesn't merely strip you of your clothes, but it'll melt your skin and tear the flesh from your bones, as well.

"Get Smart" is caught in no man's land. It makes the mistake of being an event film. The audience wants more banter between Carrell and Hathaway, not a rehash of Phil Alden Robinson's "The Sum of All Fears".