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Get Smart [Blu-ray] by Peter Segal
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Alan Arkin, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Steve Carell, Terence Stamp Director: Peter Segal Brand: Warner Brothers Blu-ray: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 109 minutes Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-11-04 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Warner Home Video Product features: - In the world of covert intelligence, only one man is Smart. Steve Carell is in CONTROL as Maxwell Smart, the novice agent often out of his depths but never out of options in this action comedy pitting him against the nuclear scheme of the evil spy group KAOS. Anne Hathaway partners with Max as ever-capable Agent 99. And director Peter Segal (The Longest Yard ) guides his stars (including Dwayne Jo
Movie Reviews of Get Smart [Blu-ray]Movie Review: Fun from start to finish Summary: 5 Stars
Although Get Smart has plenty of easy laughs in it, there are many places where the laughs are rather subtle and you have to both be paying attention and get what they are spoofing. Those laughs are probably the biggest if you spot them.
What can you say about Steve Carell? In remakes of this type it is easy for the movie actor to come up short of the legend created out of the popular TV role. (Will Smith as James West anyone?) As much as I enjoyed Don Adams in the TV series, Steve Carell one up's him and is a better Maxwell Smart than Adams was.
Anne Hathaway obviously studied Barbara Feldon's Agent 99 quite a bit, because there are lines in the movie where you could swear that a younger Feldon had been plugged in. She's spot on in the role.
The movie pays homage to Don Adam's most famous repeat bits without overdoing it one bit. The story is engaging, and the action is very well done, although you'll struggle to recognize that because they don't let up on the comedy accelerator even in the middle of action scenes that would be the most tense in any other film.
The Blu-ray redition of the film is a delight to watch. I don't go through special features often, so I won't comment on those, altho we did watch the outtake/gag reel and it was worth the time spent to watch it ... twice.
We have now watched this film several times as we played it for ourselves, and then various sets of family and friends. We enjoy it just as much with each repeated viewing ... a solid accomplishment for any film, and even more so for a comedy.
Obviously, if you like comedies this is highly recommeneded. If you were a fan of the Get Smart TV series, its must see.
Summary of Get Smart [Blu-ray]GET SMART - Blu-Ray Movie
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