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Get Smart (2008)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Ty Burr "...fun, but lacks zany intelligence of TV series." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...made with the same level of technical expertise we’d expect from a new Bond movie itself." more... A- Chicago Tribune Matt Pais "TV adaptation takes its shoe phone and stomps all over the series' charm." more... C   E! Online Matt Stevens "...mediocre ..." more... C   Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...the unexpected star is Hathaway..." more... B+ filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "Clever casting extends to the film's numerous cameos." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Not nearly smart enough." more... C- Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "Action is emphasized over laughs and the job gets bungled." more... C- New York Post Lou Lumenick "...it's actually pretty funny..." more... B- New York Times Manohla Dargis "Mr. Carell’s deadpan and implied decency go a long way toward making Get Smart work as well as it does." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "...delightfully silly and at times very funny." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "No knockout, but Carell wins on a rock-solid technicality – he's funny. " more... B- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...a really bad idea." more... D   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Andy Spletzer "...a harmlessly entertaining picture." more... B+ USA Today Claudia Puig "...bright enough, but stops short of being clever." more... B- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)