Get Smart (film)
Get Smart is a 2008 American action spy comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember and produced by Leonard B. Stern, who is also the producer of the original series. The film is based on Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's television series of the same name.
The film stars Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, and Alan Arkin, with Terence Stamp and James Caan in supporting roles. Bernie Kopell, who played Siegfried in the original series, also appeared in the film. The film centers on an analyst named Maxwell Smart (Carell) who dreams of becoming a real field agent and a better spy. The film was released in North America on June 20, 2008.
Get Smart received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, earning $230 million on an $80 million budget.

Plot
Maxwell Smart, analyst for CONTROL the top secret American intelligence agency, yearns to become a field agent like Agent 23. Invaluable as an analyst, his admittance tests top scores are disregarded. Their headquarters is attacked by the terrorist organization KAOS, so most agents' identities are exposed.
Recently undergoing extensive plastic surgery, only Agent 99 is viable. Smart is promoted to Agent 86, but 99 is concerned about his inexperience. On the first day on the job, he receives a special Swiss Army knife with a miniature flamethrower and crossbow.
On a plane to Moscow, Agent 99 spots a possible assassin, but Smart believes she's profiling him. As Max uses a matchstick to remove gum from his shoe, the Air Marshal is alerted for fear of a bomb. In the bathroom, after many attempts to break the zip tie on his wrists with the pocketknife crossbow, he's successful. However, one of the darts hits the "eject" button, expulsing Max without a parachute.
Agent 99 follows with a parachute, as does the assassin, who she distracts with a kiss, preventing him from killing them all. She deploys the parachute, the assassin crashes into a barn, and the agents assume he is dead.
They arrive at KAOS' chief bomb-maker Ladislas Krstic's mansion during a party. After an intense dance-off, they infiltrate his office and trace nuclear material to a KAOS nuclear weapons factory disguised as a Moscow bakery. Although caught by Krstic and his men, they eliminate everyone successfully. In the bakery, Smart meets with KAOS boss Siegfried and his second-in-command, Shtarker, but a double-agent compromises their identities.
Smart escapes and destroys the weapons factory, but he and Agent 99 are confronted by the assassin from the plane. All seems lost, but Smart recognizes him as Dalip, from a recording. He gives him advice on his failing marriage, so they are let go.
Agent 23 is sent to observe the factory cleanup, but KAOS sneaks the weapons out beforehand, leaving him convinced that only a bakery had been destroyed. As Smart was alone during his key discoveries, CONTROL believes he is double agent. Agent 99, who has gradually been developed feelings for Smart, is heartbroken but takes him into custody, just when he starts suspecting that she is the double agent. Meanwhile, conferring with Shtarker, Siegfried plans to detonate a nuclear bomb in LA while the POTUS is there.
Siegfried contacts the U.S. government during a meeting including the Chief and the VPOTUS and threatens to release nuclear weapon detonator codes to hostile countries unless given $200 billion. Noone at the meeting, especially the VP (who hates the Chief), take the call seriously, to the Chief's dismay.
While Smart is in a CONTROL holding cell, Dalip sends him a coded message via American Top 40, alerting him to Siegfried's plan. He escapes and arrives in LA to reunite with the Chief, and Agents 99 and 23, convincing them he is not the double agent.
Meanwhile, as the President arrives at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Siegfried, Shtarker and Dalip plant the bomb there. When Smart's Geiger counter-equipped watch picks up traces of radiation from Agent 23, they realize he is the double agent.
Agent 23 takes 99 hostage and flees. After a chase, Smart rescues her, but in the struggle, the car is set on fire and forced onto railroad tracks. Smart kisses Agent 23 to distract him, Agent 99's trick. He and she are thrown off the vehicle before it collides with a freight train, killing Agent 23.
Analyzing Agent 23's nuclear football, Smart realizes the final note of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" will trigger the bomb. Rushing to the Disney Hall, Smart tackles the elderly conductor just before the final note, saving everyone.
Siegfried, despite his plan failing, is satisfied with Dalip's performance and promises not to kill his wife as he would have had he failed, but implies she is extremely ugly. In response, Dalip throws him into the river, to Shtarker's delight.
In CONTROL headquarters, a party is held in Smart's honor and Agent 99 gives him a puppy. Receiving honors,  he becomes a real spy. While leaving, attempting to fix a jammed door, Smart gets stuck between the sliding doors, as he shouts "You gotta be kidding me!"

Cast
Bernie Kopell, who played Siegfried in the original TV series, has a cameo as a motorist. Ryan Seacrest made a voice cameo as himself, hosting American Top 40.

Soundtrack
This film's score was composed by former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin, who had previously scored films such as Armageddon, Enemy of the State and Deep Blue Sea.

Track listing
Marketing
In addition to traditional television advertisement and movie trailers, Warner Bros. commissioned Pepsi to produce a flavor of Sierra Mist soft drink dubbed "Undercover Orange" to help promote the film. In Latin America, Get Smart was shown in a Spanish language dubbed version, produced in Mexico. The theatrical posters had a sticker that highlighted the return of Jorge "El Tata" Arvizu, a highly regarded Mexican actor who was returning to the character after a 13-year hiatus, having dubbed Don Adams in the 1960s TV series and again in the short-lived 1990s Get Smart TV series starring Andy Dick.

Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 51% rating based on 223 reviews with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads "Get Smart rides Steve Carell's considerable charm for a few laughs, but ultimately proves to be a rather ordinary action comedy". Metacritic gave the film a score of 54 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".The film received positive reviews from Roger Ebert and Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film a thumbs up, saying that it was "one of the more pleasant surprises of the year". Critic James Berardinelli also gave it a positive review.Negative responses came from Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News calling it "staggeringly bad" and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle stating that "It couldn't buy a laugh in a nitrous oxide factory with a fistful of clown noses." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said "it neglects the laughs and amps up the action, resulting in a not very funny comedy joined at the hip to a not very exciting spy movie."It also received negative reviews from Richard Schickel from Time and David Ansen from Newsweek, with the latter stating, "it's not Maxwell who's clueless, but the filmmakers ... Director (Pete) Segal ... is a comedy specialist lacking any apparent sense of humor."

Box office
Get Smart grossed $130.3 million domestically and $100.3 million internationally, bringing its worldwide total to $230.7 million. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $38.6 million in 3,911 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #1 at the box office and averaging $9,891 per venue. The film was released in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2008, and opened on #3, behind Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Mamma Mia!.

Home media
Get Smart was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008 by Warner Home Video. Two versions of the film were released: the theatrical version and an enhanced version that allows viewers to view alternate takes and deleted scenes placed within the context of the film.
The film was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2009. Approximately 2,088,163 DVD units were sold, translating to revenue of $34,652,714 (Blu-ray sales/rentals not included).

Future
DVD spin-off
A spin-off film, Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control (featuring Oka, Torrence, Miller, Warburton, Crews and a cameo by Hathaway reprising their roles), was released on DVD on July 1, 2008, eleven days after the feature film's theatrical release. The film tells a standalone story that takes place concurrently with the events within the film (including a scene in which Agent 99 calls Lloyd and angrily berates him for the poor quality of her gadgets compared to Max's; that scene takes place immediately after Max accidentally renders himself unconscious with a blowgun during a stakeout in the main film).

Cancelled sequel
On October 7, 2008, it was reported that Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures were producing a sequel. Carell, Hathaway, and Arkin were set to return, but the status of other cast members had yet to be announced. In July 2010, Steve Carell stated that he had recently been given a potential script for the sequel to Get Smart, but had passed on it. He said that he was still very interested in eventually making a Get Smart sequel, but was willing to wait until a decent script was developed.In 2010, Carell said: "I took a pass at Get Smart 2, write a completely new story and we'll see what happens with that somewhere down the line perhaps... Anne Hathaway is definitely in and Alan Arkin, so at some point... we don't have any projected date and the script still needs some tweaking and some rewriting."During 2013, Carell stated that it was unlikely that there really would be a sequel. In December 2013, however, Peter Segal claimed a Get Smart 2 had been close to being made, with the "funny script" written by Carell himself.By 2019, Segal stated that too much time had passed for a Get Smart sequel to be viable.

Awards and nominations
References
External links

Official website 
Get Smart at IMDb 
Get Smart at AllMovie 
Get Smart at Box Office Mojo 
Get Smart at Metacritic 
Get Smart at Rotten Tomatoes 
Get Smart on Youtube