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Get Smart

Overview


Genre :

Action, Comedy

Release Date :

June 20, 2008

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Peter Segal

Starring :

Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, The Rock, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Bill Murray, Ken Davitian, Nate Torrence, David Koechner, Masi Oka, Terry Crews, Craig Susser

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  5 of 5 [Rate It]

Review rate : B+

“..Ultimately, "Get Smart" succeeds as a tribute to the original series and as a funny movie in its own right..”
by Andy Spletzer [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
3 of 5

“..has a very funny leading man, a charming and engaging leading lady, and enough good jokes to pass the time..”
by David Mercier [FilmJudge]
2.5 of 4

“..breezily entertaining..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
1.5 of 4

“..an unwieldy spoof-thriller of clashing styles..”
by Bill Weber [Slant Magazine]
2 of 4

“..an overdressed, carefully stitched scarecrow of a comedy..”
by David Hiltbrand [Philadelphia Inquirer]
3 of 4

“..an enjoyable mid-summer night's comedy..”
by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]
2.5 of 4

“..actually pretty funny (if overlong and overproduced)..”
by Lou Lumenick [New York Post]
“..a not very funny comedy joined at the hip to a not very exciting spy movie..”
by Kenneth Turan [LA Times]
3 of 4

“..a much more entertaining movie than its tedious trailers suggest..”
by Connie Ogle [Miami Herald]
1 of 4

“..a movie that spoofs intelligence in the most unintelligent way possible..”
by Glenn Whipp [LA Daily News]
2.5 of 4

“..a fresh, imaginative take on spy comedy..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Michael Machosky [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]

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