Date: July 5
Location: Regal – The Falls
This is one of those movies that you forget almost immediately after seeing it. The jokes are funny enough, the action scenes are clever enough, but that’s about it. And don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that — sometimes a simple diversion is all you want.
Steve Carell does his usual solid deadpan work, delivering laughs and pathos in equal measure. I hope he someday gets a big screen role as good as The Office‘s Michael Scott. Little Miss Sunshine and Dan in Real Life were a good start. Get Smart is something he could do in his sleep, though to his credit he never treats it that way. Anne Hathaway is lovely as his partner, Agent 99 — she’s really quite gorgeous, either despite or because of her giant mouth (I can’t decide which).
And that is all I have to say.
Meet Me In Montauk 
It ranks higher than the latest installment of Indiana Jones, and you can’t even muster a bit of analysis about the repairing of Steve Carell and Alan Arkin 🙂
While I agree it’s a pure pop pleasure, I have reflected upon several moments/jokes from the film since I saw it. Therefore, I take mild offense at calling it forgettable. It achieves exactly what it sets out to do, and how many films these days can make that claim?
Get Smart looks okay over all, though Steve Carell seems to be veering more and more toward not so funny slapstick humor