{"id":180,"date":"2016-08-29T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:28:24","slug":"movie-get-smart-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/29\/movie-get-smart-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Get Smart (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/88\/Getsmart08.png\/220px-Getsmart08.png\" alt=\"Get Smart\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Get Smart<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYear: 2008<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 110 minutes \/ 1.83 hours<\/p>\n<p>While film adaptations of television shows aren&#8217;t new, <em>Get Smart<\/em> (2008) was certainly in the era when the idea to do so had become\u00a0popular (even if we&#8217;re still trying to forget <em>Bewitched<\/em> (2005)). What&#8217;s nice about <em>Get Smart<\/em> is that it falls into that &#8220;self-aware&#8221; category, mainly because the source material (i.e. the 1960&#8217;s TV show of the same name) was already self-aware when it came to the &#8220;spy&#8221; genre made popular by James Bond. Of course, it&#8217;s no wonder that the king of parody, Mel Brooks was involved in both the TV show and this film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, while the humor was more bathroom-oriented than witty, many of Carell&#8217;s lines\u00a0played off of the amusing nature of taking everything literally. Also,\u00a0the bumbling nature of his new field agent character, Maxwell Smart, was certainly entertaining (as it is clearly Carell&#8217;s fort\u00e9), even if it was abandoned at times to advance the plot through action. In fact, it did its best to not try and fall into the same old &#8220;action movie&#8221; genre, even if the end sequence certainly fits that bill. Sometimes the fight scenes seem out of place considering the frequency of Smart&#8217;s goof-ups, but they do help keep the character at least <em>somewhat<\/em> realistic.<\/p>\n<p>Younger audiences will likely not understand some of the nods to the source material. I&#8217;ve only seen part of one episode of the original TV show, but even from that limited knowledge, I&#8217;d have to say that this film was a close proximity to the original. While it follows almost every one of the tropes of the spy genre (including the attractive woman, of which Anne Hathaway definitely fits the bill), <em>Get Smart<\/em> doesn&#8217;t stand out much more than any other spy parody like <em>The Naked Gun<\/em> (1988) or <em>Johnny English<\/em> (2003). At least, as far as TV adaptations go, it wasn&#8217;t <em>Bewitched<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>No really big laughs, but continuous chuckling throughout, I give <em>Get Smart<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Smart Year: 2008 Rating: PG-13 Length: 110 minutes \/ 1.83 hours While film adaptations of television shows aren&#8217;t new, Get Smart (2008) was certainly in the era when the idea to do so had become\u00a0popular (even if we&#8217;re still trying to forget Bewitched (2005)). What&#8217;s nice about Get Smart is that it falls into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[126,131,104,128,129,13,127,130],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-movie","tag-126","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-comedy","tag-get-smart","tag-mel-brooks","tag-movie","tag-rating","tag-steve-carell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}