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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary When the headquarters of secret U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside his idol, stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent ...

Directed By: Peter Segal

Written By: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Mel Brooks, Buck Henry

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 50 m

Get Smart

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 176 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary When the headquarters of secret U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside his idol, stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent ...

Directed By: Peter Segal

Written By: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Mel Brooks, Buck Henry

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews
54
47% Positive
16 Reviews
47% Mixed
16 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews
54
47% Positive
16 Reviews
47% Mixed
16 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews

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  • Mixed Reviews
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88
It’s funny, exciting, preposterous, great to look at, and made with the same level of technical expertise we’d expect from a new Bond movie itself. And all of that is very nice, but nicer still is the perfect pitch of the casting.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
70
Get Smart the sitcom was a one-joke affair and got tedious fast, whereas Carell’s starry-eyed dweeb has room for nuance, for growth, for inspiration.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 176 User Ratings
6.4
49% Positive
86 Ratings
43% Mixed
75 Ratings
9% Negative
15 Ratings

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 176 User Ratings
6.4
49% Positive
86 Ratings
43% Mixed
75 Ratings
9% Negative
15 Ratings

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10
MattJacks2003
Apr 3, 2019
Get Smart is so funny, Steve Carell did a fantastic job working on this film, No matter how much we don't ****!
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10
Zak21
Jul 8, 2014
Get Smart was an absolutely fantastic movie! It is filled with action, a TON of comedy, and suspense that will leave you breathless. The visual and special effects on this movie is a definite crowd pleaser. The actors were superbly phenomenal and were well-suited for their parts. Great movie, great actors, great effects, great storyboard, and a great pleasure to watch!
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63
Mixes broad slapstick and off-hand one-liners in a sometimes surprisingly funny mixture.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
58
For the most part it's dull, bland and unsatisfying: a food-court version of home cooking.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
50
All that's missing is the spirit and the anarchic humor of the sitcom created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. The result is an overdressed, carefully stitched scarecrow of a comedy.
By David Hiltbrand FULL REVIEW
42
There are many stretches when it's easy to forget that Get Smart is a spoof; it's more like a third-rate James Bond with pratfalls.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
25
Remaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a REALLY bad idea.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
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10
Blitzcrag
Feb 11, 2011
The action was better than I expected. As far as the humor goes, all the scenarios that Max gets himself into are, for the most part, hilarious. Side characters supply great one-liners,too.
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6
Sosmooth1982
May 18, 2023
Kind of a weird type 007 like movie but really funny. Anne Hathaway is really hot in this movie too.
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6
diogomendes
Dec 19, 2014
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway's charm make "Get Smart" worth viewing, but the movie eventually collapses through predictable gags and uninspiring action.
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3
geewah
Jan 21, 2021
Trash. Seriously what an unfunny, disappointing re-make of one the funniest shows ever made.
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Broyax
May 26, 2023
Avertissement : vos quelques neurones restants sont menacés par cette merdasse amerlocaine d’une innommable débilité malgré le sympathique Steve Carell qui ne parvient jamais à atteindre le sous-niveau d’un Jim Carrey proclamé roi des cons depuis belle lurette. Un sourire nerveux -plutôt un tic involontaire- peut très rarement arriver quand Dwayne Connard Johnson parle de débourrer la photocopieuse (sic !) mais on stagne globalement dans un syndrome Bean-Nielsen permanent. Quoique Leslie Nielsen demeure dans ses désoeuvrements bien en dessous de la ceinture… et que Rowan Atkinson reste hors-catégorie, coincé dans la cuvette des chiottes. En tout cas, ce « film », cette espèce de « chose », ce produit chiatique de gogol-golio-mongolo-golito est une menace pour tout cerveau normalement constitué. Tous aux abris, donc !
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Production Company Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Mosaic, Mad Chance, Callahan Filmworks, Atlas Entertainment, Mel's Cite du Cinema, WV Films IV
Release Date Jun 20, 2008
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Saving The World. And Loving It.
Website https://www.facebook.com/GetSmartOfficialMovie
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Awards

MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 2 Nominations
BMI Film & TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Teen Choice Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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