It's an obvious joke to say that Get Smart (2008) is dumb, but it really does get to the heart of what’s wrong with this movie. I wonder what they hoped to achieve by making a TV show that was already absurd even sillier? And not just sillier, but crude as well. The phrase “ungrateful whore” simply doesn't belong in a Get Smart story, even if it's meant to represent something people say without truly meaning it. It’s not like those words can’t be funny—the line from 500 Days of Summer, "roses are red, violets are blue, f*** you, whore," is genuinely hilarious. The key is context. The filmmakers behind this Get Smart adaptation seemed to think that updating the show's humor for the 21st century meant including language a 1960s network sitcom couldn’t have used. What they failed to consider is whether the original TV series would have even said those things, regardless of its ability to do so. I can’t help but feel that comedy from the early 2000s should be more refined than what came before it in the latter half of the 20th century, not less. Some movies expect you to find people who are overweight inherently funny; Get Smart expects us to laugh at the idea that someone used to be fat at some point before the movie’s events. Actually, Get Smart also wants us to find fat people funny when they're dancing with or being physically intimate with someone else who was once overweight, and so on. Even the special effects from the original show have aged better than those in this film. The cone of silence was amusing because it was a physical prop that looked as awkward as it was supposed to be, unlike the poorly created computer-generated effect added later. It’s clear the characters are surrounded by nothing but air, so why bother with any effects at all? The character development is just an afterthought. I know Steve Carell tends to play variations of the same role, but that becomes especially noticeable when he's relying on someone else's limited concept. He does resemble Don Adams superficially, but he’s no Maxwell Smart. Maxwell Smart wouldn’t kill people. It doesn’t matter if the villain is Hitler—that kind of thing isn’t acceptable. They might as well have cast Dwayne Johnson in the lead role — why not? They already had Anne Hathaway playing 99, and she's about as similar to Barbara Feldon as The Rock is to both Don Adams and Steve Carell.

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