Anne Hathaway Is In Many Ways The Lifeblood Of This Dvd
So I’m sitting there catching Get Smart and starting to actually think that the trailer made this dvd look a great deal more interesting. This thought vanished though about 10 minutes once we watch Max with Agent 99.
I’ve always thought Anne Hathaway to be one of the cutest Hollywood actresses and she did not fail me here either. Her somewhat revealing wardrobe kept the eye forever on the screen, which is how it should be.
Steve Carell has honest comic timing, he may now and then remind you of Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun and Spy Hard style, but outside of that he manages to make Max a truly likable and human persona, not just an animated cartoon.
Max and Agent 99 (Carell and Hathaway) never truly finish up ‘together’, but seem to finish more on a ‘best friend’ basis by the closing of the film.
The balance of the cast is mostly well-chosen (although I did not see the reason of Bill Murray’s 1-minute appearence); there is a massive plot spin that grants one cast member to play against character, and even Dalip Singh (also known as The Great Khali in WWF) plays out swell, playing a big indestructible henchman in the tradition of Jaws of The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker movies.
I always love a dvd video that can make me laugh and keep the action coming strong. Max and Agent 99 have some intense fight scenes, choreographed by fight scene Einstein James Lew. For a finale of action they let in a dramatic and chaotic chase sequence as well. By an action point of view I could say it easily surpasses that of last Bond films, though the comedy doesn’t make it near as serious.
The plot of this flick is rather vanilla, there are good guys and negative guys and the good get to stop the bad guys from killing innocent people one of which is the president. However this flick includes a not so normal lead analyst known as Maxwell Smart who works for a counter terrorism government agency and desperately wishes to become a field agent.
Even after passing the field agent exam Max is not allowed to go outside in the field of battle as his superior (Arkin) tells him that he is the strongest analyst they have and that he needs him to keep put. Notwithstanding Max is promoted to a field agent when the evil 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 posted to take down the bad guys.
Get Smart has taken a realistic approach to a flick and sometimes seems as if you could be watching a bond flick due to feeling that some of the gadgets are right up Q’s ally. However some of the aspects are not to realistic such as hanging on to a wire while flying in mid air but this does add some more jokes to the flick. Steve Carell is very appealing in this flick like we have all come to expect and shares some wonderful onscreen chemistry with co star Hathaway.
I really give this movie a thumbs up. Superb action, great acting, and a wonderful body (Hathaway), Get Smart is a success. It takes a unusual twist to comedies that represent more serious dvd movies and did it better.
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