Get Smart
 

Just saw it today. It is absolutely fantastic. Steve Carrel is great. All the jokes are funny, and hell, even if there were no jokes, itd actually still be a great spy film.

I'd strongly dispute the last part of that last sentence, as I just don't think Get Smart would have worked as a serious spy story at all. If you actually seriously analyze the nature of the conflict between CONTROL and CHAOS, let alone the plot that CHAOS' operation entails, it's extraordinarily cliche, unrealistic and not terribly thrilling.
I enjoyed the movie, but only because Steve Carrell was in it. Anne Hathaway was a horrific choice for the love interest. (Anyone who actually watched the original series would understand why.) I generally don't respect her much as an actress anyway, so it's doubly insulting to have her act in a movie like this, where nearly any other actress (hint: an older blonde) would have done the role far better justice.
There were also a few glaringly bad changes (for the worse) from the original Get Smart characterizations and I'm not sure why they made them. Though I am pretty certain that nearly every change to Mr. Smart's characterization was made in order to make the character some sort of spy-games doppleganger for Michael Scott. (However, I actually didn't mind that so much because I kept imagining, whenever Carrell was onscreen, that the movie was actually Michael Scott's hysterical ficticious spy-story screenplay from the Office put to life. It actually arguably makes more sense if you look at the movie that way.)
Nonetheless, I cannot by default dislike a movie with Steve in it, so I have to give this a thumbs-up regardless. It is hysterical. And I enjoyed most the rest of the casting, too. Just not Hathaway.

Get Smart was something before this?

It was a tv show in the 60s created by Mel Brooks and thus pretty funny.
The classic scene that is most famous is the opening credits where Maxwell Smart walks along a corridor and there are all these complicated mechanical doors opening and closing. It's been parodied a few times. I remember one of the openings to the Simpsons parodied it.

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With that out of the way, I'd really like to see this movie but the theater in my town is not showing it. All the movie theaters in this part of the state are owned by a single company, you see, and the one in my town only has two screens, so they aren't going to bother not showing WALL-E or Kung Fu Panda in favor of Get Smart if they can show it in the next county over.

I hate Ohio. So much.

I want to be upset at Joshel but instead I just pity him.

I don't think I've ever pitied someone as much as I pity him.

Hats off to Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson for not appearing in movies that are too good for him!

Have any of you seen the Bruce and Lloyd spin off movie? Its pretty funny too.

Get Smart was, no, is my all time favorite old TV show and the moment I get enough money I am buying the series on DVD. So if the movie doesn't live up to the shows greatness, even if its decent, I will probably react to it with rage and hate.

Sorry for not bein an old fart, unlike some of you...

I like Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson.

I went to see this with my best friend and his dad a couple nights ago, and I found it to be a delightful action comedy. It had quite a few laugh out loud moments and despite my inherent dislike of anything involving Steve Carell, I recommend this movie.

Oh no Joshel it is I who am sorry, for you.

So you just can't watch any comedies made between 2005 and around at least 2009?

I came from the age of beast wars, ninja turtles, and inspector gadget (kudos to those of you that notice the tie-in). However you have the internet, so find these things. Do it now, you will thank me later.

My mum was actually a little disappointed, she thought that some of it was overdone and some of it was underdone. She was one of the people who ran home when she was young and threw on Get Smart.

Fen, why do you hate Steve Carell? Hes in like, the best sitcom ever.

Holy crap. That thing's expensive!

Hmm. Apparently it's coming to retail in individual seasons, only they'll be four discs instead of five (for a total of 20)--so that means no bonus material. :/ Still... $25 a season instead of $40...

The office is not that great of a show IMO and I really fail to understand what everyone sees in it. It's like-

*Awkward social situation*
Character 1: "...."
Character 2: "..."
Dwight: "*Something disturbing*"

Or any varied order of that string of dialog and 'Bam!' Everyone loves it.

...I should write for TV, I'm awesome.

In addition, Steve Carell is as incapable of playing a charecter that is not Steve Carell as Hollywood is of making a distinction between someone who is fun to hang out with at a party/ good looking, and someone who has talent.

Did you see Dan in Real Life? Or Little Miss Sunshine? 'Cause I think his performances in both of those kinda prove you wrong on that point.

Ok, you might not like the guy, but why would you compare him to David Spade!?

You know, I haven't seen those, so I guess it's possible he is just in the same kind of role a lot. Still, his Office charecter is remarkably similar to how he acts in a lot of other media, not to mention interviews.

As far as the David Spade thing... well, I mean, there's 'typecasting' and then there's recreating the same damn movie. Although, I think he is capable of a bit more variety than he shows typically. (I'm thinking of 'Joe Dirt', which is a far cry from the perverted, scheming ninny he plays in Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Just Shoot Me, and some others I can't remember at the moment).

I enjoyed the Get Smart movie quite a bit. I hadn't seen the show in years (it used to be on in re-runs when I was a kid), so a lot of specific references went over my head, but it was a lot of fun. The references I got (the Cone of Silence, the doors, the shoe phone), I enjoyed quite a bit. Especially the Cone of Silene. I think Steve Carrell did a good job as Maxwell Smart, and can't really think of an actor that would have been better in the role.

Because The Office is goddamn terrible.

There, I said it.

True, but he was pretty great on The Daily Show.

I would not say he was in the best sitcom ever. But I would say he is in a movie based on the best sitcom ever

Steve Carell was on the Daily Show?

Yes

The Movie RULED i love the portable cone of silence refrence and The shoe phone but most of all i loved the entire thing...GOOD Get smart was great

Wait a minute... Steve Carell wasn't in Arrested Development! You're a liar!

And seriously, Joshel, being young is no damn excuse for not knowing about the Get Smart TV series.

Well then balme my parents. Seriously though, The Office is fantastic, your insane.

Matthew Broderick.

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment.

I do not envy you.

And now I drag Ricky Gervais into this. Because regardless of your opinions of the quality of The Office, be it American, English, or one of those other ones I haven't seen but I shall assume are kind of lame, Michael Scott will forever be nothing more than a weak shadow of Brent.

I don't know. The first two seasons of the American Office did feel a lot like a weak copy of the British one, but the third season they really hit their own stride and it was funny in a different way to the British one, such that I felt if anything the American office was funnier.

Season 1 and 2 basically just tried the be the British version but in America. Seasons 3 and 4 however, were completely original, and totally hilarious.

Exactly.