GET SMART Film Review - 15/9/08

Every now and again I like a laugh and no one is better than playing the straight roles than Steve Carell in this film version of the old TV series "Get Smart". Nice to see Alan Arkin back on the big screen as well, as I haven't seen him in anything for awhile. Terence Stamp does his obligatory bad guy role and Dwayne Johnson riffs (Ably!) on his own persona and with typically Hollywood fashion Anne Hathaway ends up as eye-candy! With a massive pile of well-known bit part characters included and a couple of short cameos from others this likably daft story lurches around from scene to scene with a certain amount of humour and good comedy value - At times it can feel laboured - But still I enjoyed it and was fairly entertained from start to finish. Desperate to leave his desk job and go out into the field as an agent; Maxwell Smart gets promoted after the KAOS group attack CONTROL headquarters, with a sinister plan to attack L.A. with a hidden bomb in a piano. Smart now assigned as Agent 86 ends up working with Agent 99 and hindered by Agent 23, as they attempt to foil the nefarious plans of the KAOS group.