The plot of this movie is pretty simple, there are good guys and bad guys and the good have to stop the bad guys from killing innocent people one of which includes the president. However this movie includes a not so normal lead analyst known as Maxwell Smart (Carell) who works for a counter terrorism agency and desperately wants to become a field agent. Even after passing the field agent test Max is not aloud to go out in the field as his boss (Arkin) tells him that he is the best analyst they have and that he needs him to keep put.
However Max is promoted to a field agent when the bad guys find out all of the names and locations of the current agents and start to kill them, with the help of agent 99 (Hathaway) and agent 23 (The Rock/Dwayne Johnson) smart is sent to take down the bad guys.
Get Smart has taken a realistic approach to a movie and sometimes feels as if you could be watching a bond movie due to feeling that some of the gadgets are right up Q’s street. However some of the scenes are not to realistic such as hanging on to a wire while flying in mid air but this does add some more laughs to the movie. Steve Carell is very likable in this movie like we have all come to expect and shares some great onscreen chemistry with co star Hathaway.
I enjoyed this movie due to many of the above points, from the great characters to the very nice looking eye candy that is Hathaway. Get Smart works simply because it does its own thing unlike many of the ‘comedies’ released in the last couple of years such as ‘disaster movie, date movie, meet the Spartans and many more unfunny movies’.
Get Smart achieves what a comedy should, it makes you laugh and for that reason Mytvtalk.com awards Get Smart with 4 out of 5 stars.