Get Smart

Honestly, I don't feel like I have much to say about this movie. I saw it on the marathon movie day mostly out of convenience. It was campy and predictable. It was goofy and entertaining. Steve Carell is a funny guy. Anne Hathaway was hot and quirky and beautiful in her goofy way. She was not anorexically thin which was a nice relief. I was amused the whole time, but not particularly enraptured. It was just some fun fluff. It never transcended its silliness to say anything more deep about crime or villains and politics of fear or the world (despite the fact that we are at war). It did make fun of George W. with the inane president, but that is just standard anymore. They rationalized the Carell-Hathaway romance by saying she was older before her plastic surgery reconstructed her image. I'm not really sure how I feel about that, but nothing in this movie was serious so I'll let it slide. This movie just kind of invited you to let everything about it slide which can be dangerous, but most likely it too will slide right into obscurity, unless it made enough money to make a sequel which I have no interest in researching right now.