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Movie Review Get Smart got Smarter

p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
I laughed my * off! [:D]

If you watched it on TV back in the sixties, you will get a major kick out of this movie. I haven't laughed so hard at a movie in years. I must admit I like Barbara Felton better than Anne Hathaway though but she does pretty good. Steve Carell could be Don Adam's clone with that nose and manner. The biggest surprise of the movie to me was Alan Arkin as the Chief. He was GREAT! Easily better than the original! James Caan as president is a riot too.
This movie is a must see if you watched the original TV show, you won't be disappointed!
[:o)][:o)][:o)][:I]
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  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thx,
    JM
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    classic slapstick.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fox News reported that "Get Smart" and "The Love Guru" are tied for "Worst movie of the Year" but it still looks funny to me.
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  • iluvgunsiluvguns Member Posts: 5,351
    edited November -1
    Strange how it works, but the movies the reviewers call "the worst of...", I always seem to like better than the award winners.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On a given Tuesday night, in 1966, 100 per cent of the American public was watching Get Smart.

    Would you believe 50 per cent?
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  • peonpeon Member Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Think I'll pass until I hear more positive reviews.

    I've always been disappointed 99.9% of the time with remakes of the TV classics.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    I loved the old get smart, Cant wait to see the movie. does he have a shoe phone?
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    I loved the old get smart, Cant wait to see the movie. does he have a shoe phone?


    He aquires one. With cell phones in common use, the writers were very creative is blending 60's technology. Some of the gags are very subtle so you need to be watching and not grabassing. Hymie shows up also and unless you saw the TV show, you won't know who he is. Walking back to the car I was still laughing at the movie.[:p]
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  • nomadictaonomadictao Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It was alot like the TV show, except I liked the original Zigfreid better. DUMKOPF!!
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [8D]Would you believe

    "On a given Tuesday night, in 1966, 100 per cent of the American public was watching Get Smart."

    Would you believe
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'll take Sandy as soon as she's up to it. We both need a good laugh![;)]
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dheffley
    I'll take Sandy as soon as she's up to it. We both need a good laugh![;)]


    Danny, this is one movie you can take your grandkids to and not be worried about. I don't know what it's rated, but it's a "G" for sure.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought the original show obvious and sophomoric. I just can't wait to miss the new one.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's hard for me to imagine anybody other than Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, or Barbara Feldon as 99. Don Adams was Maxwell Smart. I had just assumed nobody else could pull it off, but based on your recommendation I'll get the DVD when it comes out.

    Thanks for the review.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • scrumpyjackscrumpyjack Member Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    +1 coming from p3skyking, I'll take the recommendation and see it soon.
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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do they have the Cone of Silence?
    Pete
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw a biography of Don Adams a few weeks back.
    He was 52 years old, Get Smart had been off the air for years. He was having a midlife crisis.
    He was on vacation in Italy with his wife of 25 years, a good looking gal.
    He called his girlfriend in California, she said she missed him. He hitchiked and rode motorcycles all across Europe to England, he caught a flight to LA to be with his girlfriend.
    His wife was wondering, "Where is Don?"

    A few months later he was married to his 25 year old girlfriend.
    They were still married in 2003. Don Adams died, I think it was 2005.
    Seemed to be a really nice guy.
    He was good friends with Hugh Hefner and went to the Playboy Mansion once a week for poker games.
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by PJ
    Do they have the Cone of Silence?
    Pete


    Yeah, [:p] and it works as good as it used to. This won't spoil anyone's fun, but his best new gimick is a Swiss army knife with a crossbow built in. The airliner head scene will leave you in the aisle (it did me at least).[:o)]
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    quote:Originally posted by dheffley
    I'll take Sandy as soon as she's up to it. We both need a good laugh![;)]


    Danny, this is one movie you can take your grandkids to and not be worried about. I don't know what it's rated, but it's a "G" for sure.


    Thanks Mike! I'll do just that![^]
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think one of the funniest things I ever saw in a movie, I don't remember the name of the movie or the British spy but I think it was the guy who used to be Mr. Bean, was fiddling with a ballpoint pen weapon and accidentally killed his boss's secretary and never noticed it.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    quote:Originally posted by PJ
    Do they have the Cone of Silence?
    Pete


    Yeah, [:p] and it works as good as it used to. This won't spoil anyone's fun, but his best new gimick is a Swiss army knife with a crossbow built in. The airliner head scene will leave you in the aisle (it did me at least).[:o)]


    That one had me really wondering, cause what about just usig the knife part of it.

    Rest of the film was great, I have not laughed at many films lately but did with this one. Ann Hathaway is no Barbra Felton but thats already been said. But she does have a nice set of legs.[:p]
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