Get Smart (2008)

superb......................................

williamsgwynfa [Highly rated reviewer] , 24/06/2008

this dvd is superb. The film stars Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 and Alan Arkin, who plays the Chief.

The film was shot at the McGill University campus in Montreal in Quebec, with other scenes being shot in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

Maxwell Smart is an analyst employed by the spy agency CONTROL. He has always hoped to be promoted to a be Field Operative, but despite his scoring extremely well on the Field Operative test, the Chief of CONTROL, decides not to promote him because Max is more valuable in his current duties.

Meanwhile, Agent 23 (played by Dwayne Johnson - The Rock) returns to CONTROL headquarters from a mission, while Max steps out, disappointed, and accidentally bumps into a woman jogger.

He returns to H.Q. only to discover that enemy agents, sent by KAOS operative Siegfried (played by Terence Stamp), have penetrated CONTROL and have destroyed its interior. He finds the woman that he had bumped into was actually Agent 99.

Unfortunately, when Max and Agent 99 encounter apparent intruders in the wrecked base, Max fails to recognize them as fellow CONTROL agents and inadvertently attacks the Chief.

Afterward, it is discovered that the perpetrators have stolen CONTROL's Agent files, thus exposing and assassinating many CONTROL agents around the world.

As a result of the unprecedented loss of agents, the Chief promotes Max to Field Operative and partners him with Agent 99.

Their mission: to find out who has been supplying nuclear weapons to KAOS.

Max and Agent 99 travel to Russia to take down the arms dealer who's in charge, and learn that a Moscow bakery is actually a front for a nuclear weapons factory.

Max goes in undercover to try and buy nuclear weapons from Siegfried.

Siegfried, however, is well aware that Max is from CONTROL and that Agent 99 is hiding in the air vents.

Siegfried orders his number-two man (and brother-in-law) Schtarker (played by Ken Davitian) to kill Max, but Max incapacitates Schtarker, and then places charges around the factory to bury the warheads under the rubble.

What happens next....? You will have to watch the film to find out.....

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Get Smart is Superb???Heh?!!!

A customer from SW London , 27/08/2008

I cannot believe a reviewer described this film as superb! Obviously this person is easily pleased!! This movie was a time filler, and nothing else. Anne Hathaway looked stunning at the ball but her main man didn't cut the mustard! He just seems to be too old to be acting silly as he does. I confess I do not always find him funny. There are some funny scenes but they are not what I would call laugh out loud funny. This is a good kiddies flick, but personally I was bored throughout and could't wait for it to finish .

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Insane, implausible.. and impossible not to laugh.

PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 26/08/2008

You know whether you like Steve Carrell or not, so know to stay away if you don't. If you do, you have an added bonus of Anne Hathaway who is able to seamlessly do funny adult (Devil Wears Prada), funny kids (Ella Enchanted) and serious (Becoming Jane) with ultimate ease and brilliance. This time Carell is the field agent that never was, stuck for years in an internal role in 'Control' he yearns to have the opportunity to be a field agent like Hathaway, but despite applying is constantly overlooked. That is until (ok its been done before) he is the only man left for the job, and has to try and save the day. This is a real romp, a completely insane and implausible film that I just loved from beginning to end. If you have a funny bone at all there will be something in this for you. Definately worth a watch.

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Get Smart

SFGoffical from Princes Risborough , 28/09/2008

This is the best film i've ever seen (MUST SEE)

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Insane, implausible.. and impossible not to laugh.

PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 26/08/2008

You know whether you like Steve Carrell or not, so know to stay away if you don't. If you do, you have an added bonus of Anne Hathaway who is able to seamlessly do funny adult (Devil Wears Prada), funny kids (Ella Enchanted) and serious (Becoming Jane) with ultimate ease and brilliance. This time Carell is the field agent that never was, stuck for years in an internal role in 'Control' he yearns to have the opportunity to be a field agent like Hathaway, but despite applying is constantly overlooked. That is until (ok its been done before) he is the only man left for the job, and has to try and save the day. This is a real romp, a completely insane and implausible film that I just loved from beginning to end. If you have a funny bone at all there will be something in this for you. Definately worth a watch.

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Hillarious

A customer from London , 25/10/2008

I loved every bit of this comedy and couldn't stop laughing. It is never vulgar and it even has Hiro in it! What more can you ask for?

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