Get Smart (2008)

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Movie
German title Get Smart
Original title Get Smart
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Peter Segal
script Tom J. Astle ,
Matt Ember
production Michael Ewing ,
Alex Gartner ,
Andrew Lazar ,
Charles Roven
music Trevor Rabin
camera Dean Semler
cut Richard Pearson
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Get Smart (German cross-reference: Get Smart - We love to save the world!) Is an American action comedy from 2008 . Directed by Peter Segal and written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember . The film is based on the agent satire Mini-Max (original title: Get Smart; 1965 to 1970) by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry .

action

Maxwell Smart is an analyst with the US secret service CONTROL, which fights the criminal syndicate KAOS . Smart dreams of being promoted to field service agent like his idol Agent 23 . But even though he passed the exam with flying colors, his boss told him he couldn't afford to let his best analyst go and refused his promotion. When Smart returned to the headquarters after lunch, it was as if it had been devastated after an attack. After the initial confusion, a meeting takes place in a security room at which the boss explains that CONTROL has smuggled an agent into KAOS to find out something about the increased activities of KAOS in connection with nuclear weapons . However, the agent was blown, whereupon KAOS, as a counter-attack, attacked CONTROL headquarters . During the attack, KAOS was also able to hack into CONTROL's computer system and reveal the identity of all agents.

Given the circumstances, Smart is promoted to Agent 86 after all , as KAOS does not know his face, nor does that of Agent 99, who recently had facial plastic surgery . Together they are supposed to track down the Bosnian bomb maker Ladislas Kristíc, who is in Russia . He works for Siegfried, the head of KAOS and mastermind behind it all. The two agents find Kristíc in Smolensk , where they discover information on his computer about the delivery of parts for atomic bombs to a Moscow bakery. In the subsequent firefight, Kristíc is killed. Smart and 99 travel on to Moscow, where Smart pretends to be Kristíc's envoy at the bakery, while 99 tries to track down nuclear weapons production. During the action, the two are blown up, but Smart is able to stop the production of nuclear weapons by applying explosive devices and escape the building at 99. In doing so, he manages to pull the gigantic Dalip, Siegfried's executor, to his side. The next day, Agent 23 is in charge of cleaning up the bakery. He informs the boss that he had not found any nuclear weapons, only the remains of a bakery. Smart is then suspected of being a double agent and locked in a custody cell at CONTROL headquarters in Washington, DC . Meanwhile, Siegfried informed the Ministry of Internal Security that he had distributed nuclear weapons to all the "particularly unstable" dictators in the world and was only holding back the release codes. He is demanding US $ 200 billion for the destruction of the codes. When his threat is dismissed as a bluff and ignored, Siegfried wants to detonate a bomb in the Disney Hall in Los Angeles , where the US President is attending a concert.

At the same time, the boss of CONTROL flew to Los Angeles with agents 23 and 99 to convince the president of the authenticity of the threat, which however does not succeed. Shortly before, Smart had received an encrypted message from Dalip on the radio confirming the existence of the bomb in Los Angeles. He is able to break free from his cell, flies to the west coast and manages to convince the boss and 99 of his innocence. However, the Secret Service entrusted with securing the Disney Hall does not want to believe the CONTROL people's story with the bomb. Finally, Smart notices that 23 must be the double agent and has the activation code for the bomb in the concert hall with him. When 23 is confronted with this, he takes Agent 99 hostage and flees. He arm the bomb and inform Siegfried of this. After a long chase, the boss and smart agent can save 99. Not only is 23 fatally injured, the laptop that could have sent the deactivation code is also destroyed. Smart remembers his conversation with Siegfried in the bakery and suspects that the last notes of Beethoven's 9th Symphony , which is currently being played in the concert hall, trigger the bomb to explode. The three storm into the hall, where Smart outlines the conductor just before the final chord sounds, so that the orchestra stops playing and the bomb doesn't explode. Last but not least, Siegfried is thrown from a bridge into the water by Dalip, tired of the constant humiliation of his boss.

Reviews

"[...] one of the challenges for the authors was to combine comedic timing with action timing" with precision and style "[...]"

- Emanuel Levy

“Cinema remake of the television agent parody popular in the 1960s, which, although dusted off a bit, still faithfully demystifies old genre stereotypes in an anarchic way. It is mainly thanks to the coherent cast that the lengthy, not exactly original story carries and provides solid popcorn entertainment. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Successful agent parody that is exciting, action-packed, fast-paced, romantic and extremely funny."

- Cinema

“In the theatrical version of the cult TV series“ Mini-Max ”, the ambitious but idiot analyst Maxwell Smart is finally promoted to a foreign agent and is immediately sent to Eastern Europe with a very dangerous assignment. He is accompanied by the cold and beautiful colleague 99 (Anne Hathaway). The only thing worth seeing about this routine staged parody of agents, whose gags are almost nothing to do with deadlocks, is only the main actor Steve Carell, who, with his seriousness, helplessness and struggle for dignity in eternal failure, seems hilarious and touching at the same time. "

- Knut Elstermann, radioeins

Awards

  • The film won the Teen Choice Award in 2009 in the "Choice Summer Movie: Comedy" category

backgrounds

The film characters come from the agent satire Mini-Max (original title: Get Smart) by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry from the years 1965 to 1970. Peter Segal said in an interview that the aim of the film authors was to capture the spirit of Mel Brooks and those of Bringing Buck Henry closer to the younger generation.

The film was in Montreal , Harrington (Québec) , Washington, DC , and at a studio in Burbank ( California turned). Originally, filming was also planned in Los Angeles and Moscow . Production costs were estimated at $ 80 million. The box office results are around 230 million US dollars worldwide.

The cinema release in the USA was on June 20, 2008, in Germany on July 17, 2008.

Also in 2008, Get Smart - Bruce and Lloyd completely crazy, a film was produced for the video and DVD market, the plot of which runs parallel to the movie. Masi Oka and Nate Torrence can be seen in the leading roles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Get Smart . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ a b Review by Emanuel Levy
  3. ↑ Get Smart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Cinema
  5. ↑ Discussion by Knut Elstermann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radioeins.de  
  6. ↑ a b The Rock, Stamp get 'Smart' ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Variety on January 16, 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  7. ^ Filming locations for Get Smart
  8. ↑ Box office / business for Get Smart
  9. ↑ Get Smart on boxofficemojo.com, accessed October 30, 2018
  10. ↑ Release dates for Get Smart