TWO HEADS: Should be better than one, but with the bumbling, stumbling of Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), one might have to rely on Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) to save the day in Get Smart, which plays at the Fairmount Cinema 6.
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SEBRING, June 27, 2008 – It is hard to find a person Steve Carell cannot make laugh. So it is with his portrayal of Maxwell Smart in the big screen version of the 60s TV comedy Get Smart.
Carell delivers again with his mugging, his voice pitch, his timing, his deadpanning, his comebacks. In fact, if anything, the script and direction may have held him back and allowed too much action to interfere with his comedy.
Otherwise, this is a comedy the whole family can enjoy – unlike Zohan and Love Guru – with good support from Dwayne Johnson (the former pro wrestler) and Alan Arkin.
Anne Hathaway is a good actress and attractive, but for whatever reason the director toned down the sultriness of the original Agent 99, Barbara Feldon. That did not seem necessary, since the TV standards of the time were much stricter than just about any standard today. Perhaps the reason is just today’s idea of what a sexy woman is.
Get Smart is rated PG-13, mostly for “action violence.”
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Get Smart looks pretty good over all though it seems like Steve Carell is veering toward an excess of slapstick humor