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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BaftaBaby[/i] [br][url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425061/"]Get Smart[/url] Well, I was all set to hate this, but it soon won me over. Well, the comedy part did anyway. And, of course, I realized the bedrock of the film, as the tv series of yesteryear, is that funteam known as Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. Now Brooks does dry up from time to time, I admit, but in the co-creation of Maxwell Smart, the fuck-up agent of Control who manages to come up trumps, well, that's a classic. And then there's Steve Carell, who really shows his comic potential here via a series of understated reactions and the kind of bravery otherwise described as foolhardy. Both Dwayne Johnson and Anne Hathaway, as fellow agents, prove good foils as rival and partner respectively. But Carell really meets his comic match with Alan Arkin as Control's Chief. But it's Arkin's character which also points up the film's weaknesses, the major one of which is dimension. None of the characters is allowed to have a real off-screen life, though we are treated to illustrated snippets of recounted incidents. We never really get to know them as people. And that makes the central relationship between Smart Agent 86 and pert partner Agent 99 completely unbelievable. There's no onscreen chemistry - though I have to say the tv ads for the film prove in 30 seconds that the two have a good rapport. So, if we're not rooting for the couple to go from cold rejection to final curtain goo-goo eyes, we're left with the comedy and comic actioin. 'Cause the plot ain't nothing to write home about either. Typical Control versus KAOS stuff that doesn't bear too much analysis. But action is certainly there, some of it quite clever indeed. And the comedy's never in doubt. [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.