| Get Smart | |
|---|---|
 "Saving the World ... and Loving It." | |
| Directed By | Peter Segal |
| Written By | Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember |
| Cast | Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin |
| Produced By | Alex Gartner, Charles Roven, Andrew Lazar, Michael Ewing |
| Cinematography By | Dean Semler |
| Film Editing By | Richard Pearson |
| Music By | Trevor Rabin |
| Studio | Village Roadshow Pictures, Mosaic Media Group, Mad Chance, Callahan Filmworks |
| Distributed By | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Franchise | Get Smart Franchise |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | June 20, 2008 |
| Runtime | 110 Minutes |
| Rating | PG-13 |
| Budget | $80,000,000 |
| Gross | $264,370,531 |
Overview[]
Get Smart is a 2008 American produced action-comedy espionage film starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Dwayne Johnson, and Terence Stamp. It was directed by Peter Segal and is an modernized updated version of Mel Brook's original spy satire Get Smart TV series that ran from 1965 to 1970 and launched the Get Smart Franchise. The 2008 Get Smart film also had a spin-off special short Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control that featured several of the supporting characters of the film itself with clips of the movie itself.
Agent Maxwell Smart is a top rated analyst for the super-secret intelligence agency known as CONTROL. But Smart longs to be a real field agent instead of stuck behind a desk. He finally gets his chance when the terrorist organization KAOS steals CONTROL's agents files. With their regular field agents exposed and compromised, only one lone CONTROL asset, Agent 99 remains. But she's going to need help. Desperate and without any one else to turn to, CONTROL has no other choice ... but to Get Smart!
Selected to become Agent 99's partner and to save the world from KAOS; Maxwell Smart is living his dream ... and loving every single minute of it. But with CONTROL and Agent 99 handicapped with Smart's blundering clumsiness, who is going save the world from Max?
Plot[]
Cast[]
- Steve Carell as Maxwell "Max" Smart
- Anne Hathaway as Agent 99
- Dwayne Johnson as Agent 23
- Alan Arkin as The Chief
- Terence Stamp as Siegfried
- Masi Oka as Bruce
- Nate Torrence as Lloyd
- Dalip Singh as Dalip
- Ken Davitian as Shtarker
- Terry Crews as Agent 91
- David Koechner as Larabee
- James Caan as the President of the United States
- David S. Lee as Ladislas Krstic
- Bill Murray as Agent 13
- Patrick Warburton as Hymie
- Phoebe Price as Window Shopper
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Trivia[]
- A number of props based on the original Get Smart TV series was shown and were even used in the movie such as the Cone of Silence, the shoe phone, and Maxwell Smart's various cars used in the opening title sequences including a Sunbeam Tiger, the Opel GT, and the VW Karmann Ghia. There was even a photograph of Mr. Big, the first villain faced in the Get Smart series decorating Maxwell's refrigerator.
- The airline that Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 used to travel to Russia was named Yarmy International which was used in tribute to the late Don Adams, the original Maxwell Smart who had been born Donald Yarmy.