A lot of you probably don’t know this, but the Get Smart movie is based on a tv show from the 60s with the same name. Going into the Get Smart movie i had already seen almost the entire first season of the show(and had enjoyed it immensely). If you are going to go see this movie i recommend that you “obtain” a copy of the first season of the show, it makes the movie so much more enjoyable.

Coming into this movie i was scared for it and had absolutely no expectations. Steve Carrell has generally been terrible in movies except for a few exceptions(and The Office (US) is amazing of course). I was pleasantly surprised by how well he played Maxwell Smart because he didn’t seem like he would fit the part.

One thing they did a great job with was getting the standard “macho men” from our media to play the other agents. I recognized almost all of them and it just made the movie feel more realistic, because it’s those actors who we associate with being that time of man. I didn’t really think that the other agents would be macho men but it worked for the movie.

I don’t think someone who hadn’t seen the show would get a lot of jokes in this movie because they play on that a lot. The cone of silence from the original show is back but in a new form and so are a bunch of other awesome gadgets.

The Americans are going to HATE this movie i think. They are constantly mocked and made fun of. There is a great scene making fun of George Bush Jr. and how he responded to 9/11 which was absolutely hysterical.

This movie was a great pleasure to watch. I still found Wall-E, Hellboy II, Iron Man and especially Dark Knight to be more enjoyable but it was still very good. If you grew up watching the old tv show then you should definitely see this, it will bring back some good memories. I give this movie 7.8/10