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Get Smart (2008) Film Rating and Review :
Rating :
Acting – 8/10
Direction – 7/10
Screenplay – 8/10
Music – 6/10
Technique – 7/10
Review :
Total control
In Hollywood’s summer season of superheroes and action-adventurers, Get Smart is the self-deprecating antidote to all the self-importance.
Steve Carell’s Maxwell Smart, with his ability to make the enemy cry and get a standing ovation despite being caught quite literally with his pants down, is a well-timed slap in the face of just about every too-smooth secret agent around — James Bond included.
Smart is an analyst in CONTROL, a covert US government agency whose main task it is to, well, control a Russian organization called, well, KAOS. He has spent years in the agency and has served it well, though he has never got the chance to leave the office. But now, having recently shed 150 pounds, he has ambitions of finally being promoted to the rank of field agent. However, once again, the chief (Alan Arkin) says he can’t spare Smart’s intelligence skills — which is what, he claims, really takes down the bad guys. If his key analyst hits the field, who will routinely write 100-page reports breaking down terrorist chatter about decaf-cappuccinos and full-fat muffins?
But Smart unexpectedly gets his chance for glory everlasting when the control room of CONTROL is breached and ransacked, and the identity of all active agents is compromised. He — now named Agent 86 — finally has his first mission: to track down the “hot” (radioactive) material that the agency fears is being made into bombs by KAOS.
And who is to accompany him? None other than Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), who is the only other unrecognizable operative left in CONTROL, having recently undergone enough plastic surgery to make her a stranger to her own mother.
What follows is a number of encounters with the villains — the kind you have seen in just about every secret agent film or TV show ever made. Except this is so much better. Instead of being dazzled by great gadgetry, cool fight sequences and heroes who escape the jaws of death without so much as a wrinkle to their Armani, you get to laugh at malfunctioning gizmos, fights which are won by making villains sob and a hero who is most likely to emerge from it all naked and/or maimed. And he still gets the girl.
Sounds cheesy to you? Of course it is. But so is every superhero or secret agent that takes himself too seriously. The beauty of Get Smart is that it makes you laugh without becoming a spoof on the genre. It does mock, but only gently, because it too is an action film: only one in which they have replaced the uber-male who can make women swoon at will with an average geek who tries really hard. But make no mistake, Smart is smart. Very smart.
The script is the real winner here. Every time the action gets a little intense and you run the risk of thinking that Smart has some actual machismo, it throws in a line to diffuse it. And without Carell’s deadpan face, it wouldn’t have worked. It is the same face from The Office yet it is so unique that you have to wonder how he does it, without pulling a single funny face and only under the most severe duress — such as spearing himself through the nose with a mini harpoon — grimacing in pain. Hathaway does a great job too, managing to keep up her end, even making the rather unlikely chemistry between them seem believable.
After Indy and Iron Man, and before the Hulk and Batman, get your dose of Get Smart.
Acting – 8/10
Direction – 7/10
Screenplay – 8/10
Music – 6/10
Technique – 7/10
Review :
Total control
In Hollywood’s summer season of superheroes and action-adventurers, Get Smart is the self-deprecating antidote to all the self-importance.
Steve Carell’s Maxwell Smart, with his ability to make the enemy cry and get a standing ovation despite being caught quite literally with his pants down, is a well-timed slap in the face of just about every too-smooth secret agent around — James Bond included.
Smart is an analyst in CONTROL, a covert US government agency whose main task it is to, well, control a Russian organization called, well, KAOS. He has spent years in the agency and has served it well, though he has never got the chance to leave the office. But now, having recently shed 150 pounds, he has ambitions of finally being promoted to the rank of field agent. However, once again, the chief (Alan Arkin) says he can’t spare Smart’s intelligence skills — which is what, he claims, really takes down the bad guys. If his key analyst hits the field, who will routinely write 100-page reports breaking down terrorist chatter about decaf-cappuccinos and full-fat muffins?
But Smart unexpectedly gets his chance for glory everlasting when the control room of CONTROL is breached and ransacked, and the identity of all active agents is compromised. He — now named Agent 86 — finally has his first mission: to track down the “hot” (radioactive) material that the agency fears is being made into bombs by KAOS.
And who is to accompany him? None other than Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), who is the only other unrecognizable operative left in CONTROL, having recently undergone enough plastic surgery to make her a stranger to her own mother.
What follows is a number of encounters with the villains — the kind you have seen in just about every secret agent film or TV show ever made. Except this is so much better. Instead of being dazzled by great gadgetry, cool fight sequences and heroes who escape the jaws of death without so much as a wrinkle to their Armani, you get to laugh at malfunctioning gizmos, fights which are won by making villains sob and a hero who is most likely to emerge from it all naked and/or maimed. And he still gets the girl.
Sounds cheesy to you? Of course it is. But so is every superhero or secret agent that takes himself too seriously. The beauty of Get Smart is that it makes you laugh without becoming a spoof on the genre. It does mock, but only gently, because it too is an action film: only one in which they have replaced the uber-male who can make women swoon at will with an average geek who tries really hard. But make no mistake, Smart is smart. Very smart.
The script is the real winner here. Every time the action gets a little intense and you run the risk of thinking that Smart has some actual machismo, it throws in a line to diffuse it. And without Carell’s deadpan face, it wouldn’t have worked. It is the same face from The Office yet it is so unique that you have to wonder how he does it, without pulling a single funny face and only under the most severe duress — such as spearing himself through the nose with a mini harpoon — grimacing in pain. Hathaway does a great job too, managing to keep up her end, even making the rather unlikely chemistry between them seem believable.
After Indy and Iron Man, and before the Hulk and Batman, get your dose of Get Smart.
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