the new "Get Smart"? Don't bother...
by
Trainspotter type
06/28/2008, 5:26 AM
Nah -- it's okay and has a few laughs, but it's not a patch on the TV series. It's trying more to be an action movie than a comedy spoof. In fact, it's a flim-flam bc anyone expecting to see Get Smart beyond a few chatchphrases and character profiles may feel cheated.
That loveable old ham Stamp (just rent Far from the Madding Crowd if anyone doesn't understand his long-lost magnetic screen personality, tho The Limey was fun) is not Siegfried's bootlace, tho Bernie Kopell's brief cameo is a highlight.
Smart: Chief, I want that assignment.
Chief: It's extremely dangerous, Max.
Smart: I laff in the face of danger!
Chief: They may kill you.
Smart: (beat) Well, you laff a little, you cry a little.
also
Female Villian: (incredulous) I kissed you! You're supposed to be dead! What saved you?
Smart: (ripping sound) Plastic lips! Thanks to the boys in the lab I can kiss and tell.
*sigh*
Mel Brooks (also Buck Henry) -- you are a God to me.