Early reviews are out for this weekend’s Get Smart. It was to offer the only competition to Mike Meyers’ Love Guru as a rival comedy, but its not looking positive. Guru itself has been met with skeptical eyes presuming it was just another over the top Meyer’s character, but with such scathing review of Get Smart, it might be looking like the lesser of two evils.
The overriding factor here is that the filmmakers — this would include ham-fisted director Peter Segal and the punchless writing team of Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember — don’t know what the joke is. Is this a spoof of an old TV series? Is this a spoof of Ian Fleming? Is this a Carell vehicle? No one seems to know, as familiar lines crop up in the wrong places and the timing of gags, so indelibly rendered in the series, misfires on nearly every occasion.
Ouch!
I was really looking forward to this. Forget that I am a big Carell fan. Or that I find Anne Hathaway irresistable both physically and in charm. But this series is a beloved part of my youth. This was the ONLY show I watched with my dad that wasn’t a Western or Song & Dance (or both). I was raised on the bumbling good natured witless Maxwell Smart and his dashingly capable sidekick beauty Agent 99.
Casting could not have been better for these roles. How could it fail?
I hope this reviewer just had a bad day. Or that at best it isn’t as bad as he is making this out to be.
I have such high hopes for this film.
“The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.”
NYTimes
LOL
This guy has seen The Love Guru and he agrees with Kristina 100%:
http://tan.gy/thoughts/a-movie-review-mike-myers-the-love-guru/
I read an interview with Mel Brooks who was obviously irritated by he people behind the movie not contacting him. I don’t know, I am a fan of Mr. Brooks, but I think the movie clearly has potential, with or without him. The casting is great, let’s see how it was put together.
@Kristina – LOL! I believe you and back you 100% ;)
theres only one maxwell smart and thats don adams.
i cant help feeling that they should have just created a new spy spoof world with new characters.
Who even cares about love guru. I’m totally done with Mike Myers. His comedy style dosnt work for me anymore.
Lol DON,!
Rodney I’m stunned on how you think the casting couldn’t be better on this…
Stamp is no Siegfried, he dosnt even have a funny german accent. (WTF?)
And Stalhker is some short fat guy? (Wth?) This is horrible.
The Rock? Come on? I don’t think “funny” when I see Dwanye Johnson.
The only casting I like was Patrick Warburton as Hymie.
(They nailed that one).
And Hathaway.
But that’s really it. Steve Corells execution of Maxwell Smart is HorriblE. I havnt seen such bad comedic timing in a long time. (IMO) He can’t carry the role doing the same character from “The Office”. Its a real trainwreck to behold.
The story they choose for the screenplay comes right out of a bad “Epic Movie” ,”Scary Movie” or “Meet the Spartans” treatment.
I really want to predict that this film will make about 5mil but it will prob break over 15mil and go down from there.
If Get Smart makes over 80 million I will completley loose hope for all mankind.
I’m a HUGE Get Smart fan, but when the take something I love and distort it like this, FU!
If the execution isn’t perfect in Star Trek 11, your gonna get the same thing. Bad timing bad movie.
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Haven’t seen Love Guru or Get Smart, but RT has 55% for Get Smart and 10% for Love Guru. Ouch!
@Mozzerino
I time-traveled and watched Love Guru. I’m telling ya, it’s a piece of shit:)
I saw the film Monday night and thought it was a blast. The entire theater was packed and everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Saw it last night and enjoyed it. Steve Carell, despite his arguably predictable idiosyncrasies, does a cracking job. He added warmth and great timing to a film that could have been very flat.
I think Yahoo review is way off mark. To call the writing team ‘punchless’ leads me to once again thinking that the Yahoo review staff are not punching their weight. Maybe I’m wrong, but tell that to the theater full of non industry goers last night who didn’t care if it was a “spoof of an old TV series? a spoof of Ian Fleming? a Carell vehicle?” and just laughed along.
Don’t give up the day job Yahoo, you’re still great when I need to find a nearby gas station….
The trailer didn’t do anything for me. If it gets bad to ok buzz I won’t see it.
Thanks Vic! I was hoping that at some point SOMETHING good would be said about it.
There’s no way Love Guru will be better than this.
I have no interest whatsoever to see Get Smart it simply looks awful and I can’t fathom sitting through another movie that fails to recreate any bit of charm of another favorite TV show I watched as a kid.
If I was forced to choose this Friday which awful looking comedy to see I’d pick Get Smart over The Love Guru, which looks even worse! I hope both these fail miserably at the box office.
I saw it on Monday and I couldn’t disagree more. I went in fully expecting it to be weak at best and I found it thoroughly enjoyable. It was funny, paid great tribute to the original AND had some killer action scenes.
My review will be out on Friday.
Vic
Well i remember the first reviews i read for Iron Man and for Prince Caspian pretty much condemned them to death so you never know. But i was never sure about this one anyway since the trailer made it look much more like an action film than a comedy. And i’m sure poor Terence Stamp gets totally wasted in it.
I have a feeling this reviewer didn’t ever see the original, which was in itself very goofy, but was such a great show… I think the casting couldn’t be better for this movie and my opinion is that if this movie doesn’t do well it is because not enough people remember the original..
Meh fuck this movie.
I want both this and love guru to kill each other at boxoffice. Destroy each other.
FUCK these two movies.
@Kristina
So you have already seen LOVE GURU then, making that bold statement?
It’s a shame that a funny man like Steve Carell can’t find himself a decent vehicle to finally take him to the Jim Carry/ Will Ferrell-level.
I doubt his career could survive another bomb of EVAN ALMIGHTY-proportions.
I don’t think GET SMART will do very well. The competition is just too strong that weekend. WALL-E will crush everything.
Even if it’s shit, it cannot be worse than Love Guru.