Get Smart

[Watashi]

Full trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/getsmart/trailer2/large.html)

My God, Anne Hathaway is so hot.

[Teecee]

Looks funnier with every trailer.

[Dukefrukem]

yeh saw this up on the Playstation Network.

[Skitch]

Finally get to see a bit of Nate in action...I went school with that guy...the one that says "You didn't push the button hard enough." I just talked to his dad last week. :D

[Ezee E]

This actually looks good. A summer action comedy that may actually be funny? About time.

[MadMan]

I will see this, no question. The cast fits the characters perfectly and the trailer made me laugh. I loved the old show.

[Sycophant]

This trailer does little for me. But I'll see it because I want it to be good oh, so badly.

[Henry Gale]

Finally get to see a bit of Nate in action...I went school with that guy...the one that says "You didn't push the button hard enough." I just talked to his dad last week. :D

I think anyone here who watched Studio 60 would recognize him too, seeing as he was a regular on it and a pretty good one at that.


And this trailer wasn't half bad. The stuff in the earlier trailers just felt a bit like only early completed clips, but here we have some pretty solid stuff. I just hope we didn't already get too much of it.

I have to admit thought that I enjoyed today's trailers for Step Brothers, Iron Man and even The Love Guru (despite that being mostly rehashed stuff) a lot more.

[Skitch]

I think anyone here who watched Studio 60 would recognize him too, seeing as he was a regular on it and a pretty good one at that.

Yeah, I heard he was in that...though I never saw an episode. I don't watch tv...at all.

EDIT: He's also married to my cousin. :|

[Morris Schæffer]

Looks like a fun diversion and that's a fairly cool cast. Still, there's something tiresome about spy spoofs while characters bumping into walls and, uhm, more walls isn't my idea of inspired comedy, but again, it does look like rather charming and unpretentious summer fun. And Hathaway is indeed smoking!

[D_Davis]

That was awesome when the Rock stapled that dude's forehead.

:lol:

[Sycophant]

I like how the MPAA doesn't allow guns to point at people in the Indy trailer, while in the Get Smart trailer, people can get shot (with squibs!), hit by buses, and stapled, all with a green band.

[Watashi]

If I ever did a list of my 50 favorite people, The Rock would definitely be high up there. Just a class act all around and a good actor too. The future is going to be big for him. Now if only he can get some better roles...

[Wryan]

"Sean! Sean! Sean! Sean! See how annoying that is?"

Fuck that looks actually GOOD.

[MadMan]

If I ever did a list of my 50 favorite people, The Rock would definitely be high up there. Just a class act all around and a good actor too. The future is going to be big for him. Now if only he can get some better roles...I happen to be a big fan of the Rock as well. Anyone who questions him should see The Rundown to see his charsma in full force.

[Spinal]

The previews for this have been cracking me up. I'm very much looking forward to seeing this. Hopefully they are able to sustain the comedy throughout.

[Sycophant]

The other day I came across a still from this movie and actually thought for a moment it was of Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. Yes, I do want to see this.

[Grouchy]

The other day I came across a still from this movie and actually thought for a moment it was of Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. Yes, I do want to see this.
Huh, not even joking.

I imagine it will be a mixture of the classic comedy with typical Steve Carrell antics. Although the bit with "the element of SURPRISE!" is definitively something Mel Brooks would do.

Funny how the original title was a spoof of movie titles like Get Carter or Our Man Flint, but now it's completely lost its spoofness.

[Spinal]

Score one for the guys who make film trailers. This was a fairly substantial disappointment. Not near the kind of hilarity I was hoping for. Some good moments (most of which were featured in the previews for the film), but most of it is not so much funny as it is funny-ish. It's hard to actively dislike it because the cast has charisma, but the writing is just not strong enough. Passable entertainment if you are in a particularly generous mood, but I would suggest dialing down your expectations.

[DavidSeven]

Yeah, I can't believe I was more impressed by than action sequences than anything else. The humor was on autopilot. Let me be the first to say, Meht Smart.

[Rowland]

I'm seeing this at the drive-in tomorrow, hopefully that atmosphere will work to the film's benefit.

[Watashi]

I'm seeing this just for Anne Hathaway in tight leather.

[Derek]

I'm seeing this just for Anne Hathaway in tight leather.

Correct.

[Spinal]

I'm seeing this just for Anne Hathaway in tight leather.

This aspect is not disappointing.

[Ezee E]

This aspect is not disappointing.
There is a scene that I'm fairly sure was cut down, that could've made the movie a full point better.

Anyways, talking about it being on autopilot is exactly what it was. Jees, the only ones trying here are Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. The action sequences have no substance to it. The story seems thought up on as it goes along. When there's a possible plothole, it's easily fixed by a simple line.

But it features Anne Hathaway at her hottest. If her other movies weren't so chic, I'd probably seek them out.

[MadMan]

This movie was hilarious. I enjoyed it to the fullest. I'm kind of not surprised I'm alone in thinking this :P

Most of the gags and jokes worked extremely well, although that is a testment to the fact that Steve Carrell is one of the most talented comedians in the business today. Anne Hathaway really didn't get to do much else except be hot, but she was a solid foil for Carrell, and they played off each other quite well.

As for the action sequences, I loved all of them. Most of them would have been at home in a James Bond flick, and some of them played out better than the ones often featured in your typical Bond flick anyways.

Overall, I don't think I'll see a film this year that will make me laugh harder than I did. And my favorite part was when Carrell was shooting multiple darts into himself by accident. I pretty much lost it.

[Spinal]

Regarding the action sequences ...

I agree that they were mostly good, but the parachute sequence was ludicrous even for a broad comedy. A plane is going to be traveling at 500+ MPH. Even if there was only a delay of a minute between Max and 99, they would have been miles apart.

[Watashi]

Sweet Lord, Anne Hathaway was mega-hot in this.

The film, however, was not.

[Benny Profane]

This thread is useless without Hathaway pics.

[Skitch]

Hate to sound like a broken record, whiny little ass, but how was Nate in it? I won't be able to see it till this weekend...

[Spinal]

Hate to sound like a broken record, whiny little ass, but how was Nate in it? I won't be able to see it till this weekend...

Who's Nate?

[Skitch]

Who's Nate?

Torrence...the non-Heroes non-Japanese nerdling.

[Spinal]

Torrence...the non-Heroes non-Japanese nerdling.

He's all right, I suppose. Wasn't really crazy about those characters.

[Ezee E]

They were both funny initially but basically did the same jokes over and over.

[megladon8]

I thought it was great fun.

A few bits of humor that had be a little skeptical towards the beginning - the fat jokes got old fast, and the thing on the plane where they basically recognize a bad guy as "bad" because he's wearing a turban seemed a little offensive.

But...

On the whole it was a great, fun time, and it was nice to go out to a movie just my dad and I, and he was laughing a lot which made it enjoyable for me, too.

Alan Arkin was probably my favorite part of the movie.

[Sycophant]

Except for a couple of clunky and redundant montage sequences, I loved pretty much every minute of this movie. It was hilarious, it proved a pretty good spy action film in its own right, and it provided a sincere human warmth that I wasn't really expecting.

The cast is really phenomenal, too. I need more Dwayne Johnson in more movies.

[DavidSeven]

Get Smart (Segal, 2008) 85

Wow. Really? I can understand the film being more funny to some than others, but this seems like an awfully high score under any circumstance. I mean, it didn't even seem like anyone really wanted to hit out of the park on this one.

[megladon8]

Wow. Really? I can understand the film being more funny to some than others, but this seems like an awfully high score under any circumstance. I mean, it didn't even seem like anyone really wanted to hit out of the park on this one.


I thought it was fantastic.

It may very well make my end-of-year list, as well.

Very funny, and some surprisingly good action sequences.

[Sycophant]

It wasn't a wacky, laugh-a-minute gagfest, but I think that's part of what I liked about it. There was a compelling humanity and humility in the proceedings, particularly reflected in the way Carrell played Smart, but reflected throughout the film.

Also, I appreciated that when it was time for the spies to do their jobs, they performed their spy tasks in ways that didn't seem contrived around making them into comedy scenes, even when there were (pretty good) jokes worked in.

[Qrazy]

I found it to be fairly poor, about a 15-25 percent laugh to joke ratio. The entire experience felt rote and the filmmaking uninteresting. The direction was serviceable but pedestrian and unfortunately it was servicing a below average script. I love that it had Bill Murray, Caan, Arkin and Stamp but they were all pretty much wasted.

[Rowland]

I found it to be fairly poor, about a 15-25 percent laugh to joke ratio. The entire experience felt rote and the filmmaking uninteresting. The direction was serviceable but pedestrian and unfortunately it was servicing a below average script. I love that it had Bill Murray, Caan, Arkin and Stamp but they were all pretty much wasted.Indeed. Entire sequences just fell flat (that scene with the conference where they are all in bubbles for instance), and the stuff that did work didn't elicit much more than a chuckle. The pacing was off too, I couldn't wait for the movie to end during that action sequence with the cars and the helicopter.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Yeah, this was just okay. It had some decent laughs, and Anne Hathaway is gorgeous, but I thought too much was wasted (as Qrazy said, Murray, Arkin, and Caan all could have been utilized much better than they were). I'd give it a passing grade, but just barely.

[Morris Schæffer]

Quite amusing at times. I really didn't care about the action to be honest, find the moderate praise for it odd, and some of the references - the huge guy is Jaws from Moonraker for instance - just struck me as incredibly lazy, but a fun enough time at the theater with an enjoyable cast. Lord knows it's been ages since I actually had a few laughs at a movie theater. One of the funniest scenes in the movie was when Smart was dancing with the rotund lady and especially the final shot with Smart holding her right above the ground and the movie cuts to Smart's pained and contorted face.