Opening Today: Get Smart
GET SMART - the feature film version of the old TV spy comedy - hits screens today. The initial critical reaction is lukewarm. A survey of 72 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes yields a 53% rating (38 fresh reviews versus 24 rotten). Some typical responses
“Get Smart has it all - the Cone of Silence, the shoe phone, the familiar one-liners. But the re-imagined Maxwell Smart isn’t nearly as funny as the original.” - Washington Times
“Get Smartfeatures near-perfect casting with Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, and it largely captures the spirit of the original show. But it’s just not funny.” - Christianity Today
Roger Ebert, on the other hand, is quite enthusiastic for the film:
…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.
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