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Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell in “Get Smart.” 

Rating: 53

By veering away from the tone and style of the Mel Brooks/Buck Henry original series, Peter Segal’s “Get Smart” deprives its audience and its usually hilarious star, Steve Carell, of any real fun. Like Nora Ephron’s revision of “Bewitched,” this is a classic case of filmmakers not trusting good source material.

Carell plays Maxwell Smart as a meek and mildly klutzy intelligence analyst for CONTROL, the government agency entrusted with derailing KAOS, the Eastern Bloc terror group led by Siegfried (a bored-looking Terrence Stamp). Smart dreams of being a hands-on guy like Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson), but the Chief (Alan Arkin) doesn’t see Max that way.

 

Anne Hathaway in “Get Smart.” 

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