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Offline Aloysius J. Gleek

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Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« on: June 16, 2008, 09:01:59 am »

Well, I am nothing but loyal--I will go!




Maxwell Smart, as played by Mr. Carell, is as eager as a Labrador to get out of his cubicle and into the field. He gets a shot after the identities of almost all of Control’s agents are compromised and the chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to send out Smart next to the suave Agent 23, played by Dwayne Johnson, and the brutally beautiful Agent 99. (Anne Hathaway gets her vixen on to surprisingly convincing ends.) They are all, of course, working together to thwart world domination by the evildoers from KAOS.



Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell in “Get Smart,” based on the spy-spoof television series. Can the movie honor the past while bringing people who never saw the show into theaters?


Don Adams and Barbara Feldon in the “Get Smart” sitcom.

The New York Times article (via link) below:

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/movies/15carr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2008, 09:16:56 am »

Really, she is so pretty!



First Look at Get Smart!

Comingsoon.net

Inspired by characters from the classic television series "Get Smart," the film stars Steve Carell as secret agent Maxwell Smart; Anne Hathaway as his partner, Agent 99; Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Gridiron Gang) as Agent 23; Terence Stamp (The Limey) as Siegfried, a key KAOS operative; and Academy Award winner Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) as the Chief of CONTROL. The film also stars Ken Davitian ("Borat") as Shtarker; Masi Oka (TV's "Heroes") as Bruce; Nate Torrence (TV's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip") as Lloyd; David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) as Agent Larabee; and Terry Crews (TV's "Everybody Hates Chris") as Agent 91.

The film is directed by Peter Segal (The Longest Yard, Tommy Boy) from a screenplay by Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember (Failure to Launch). Andrew Lazar (Space Cowboys), Charles Roven (Batman Begins) and Alex Gartner (The Upside of Anger) are producing, with Michael Ewing (50 First Dates), Dana Goldberg (Happy Feet), Peter Segal, Jimmy Miller (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby), Steve Carell, Brent O'Connor (We Are Marshall) and Bruce Berman (Happy Feet) serving as executive producers.

Joining the director behind the scenes are Academy Award-winning director of photography Dean Semler (Dances with Wolves), production designer Wynn Thomas (A Beautiful Mind), Oscar-nominated editor Richard Pearson (United 93), Academy Award-winning costume designer Deborah Scott (Titanic) and Academy Award-winning special effects supervisor Michael Lantieri (Jurassic Park).

Filming began in Los Angeles on March 21, 2007, and will continue in and around Los Angeles, with future location filming taking place in Washington, D.C. and Montreal.

Get Smart opens in theaters on June 20, 2008.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19822
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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2008, 03:30:00 am »
I LOVED the original TV series, created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks (I didn't know who they were back then, but I sure know who they are now). 

I love Steve Carell.

I love our Anne.

And I will blushingly admit that I love The Rock. 

I can't wait to see this, even though the preview I saw the other night in a theater made it look D-U-M-B. 



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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 09:33:11 pm »
It looks like a doable summer film.  I did like the original series.  Given my disappointment with the new Indiana Jones movie and my mixed feelings about what else is coming out this summer, it might be nice to see something comedic. I can't imagine The Dark Knight having many funny moments.

Plus, I try to support Anne Hathaway after her performance in BBM and she recently gave a great and sincere sounding speech at the 2008 HRC dinner in Los Angeles.

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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 10:57:56 pm »
I LOVED the original TV series, created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks (I didn't know who they were back then, but I sure know who they are now). 

I love Steve Carell.

I love our Anne.

And I will blushingly admit that I love The Rock. 

I can't wait to see this, even though the preview I saw the other night in a theater made it look D-U-M-B. 

I am completely with you on everything you said, except:

1) I don't love The Rock, though my mind is still open about him.

2) I am extremely hopefully giving the previews the benefit of the doubt and finding them kind of funny. OK, so I wasn't ROTFLMFAO watching either the trailer or the NYT snippets. But I want so much -- for our Anne's sake, for Steve's sake, for Buck's and Mel's and Don Adams' and Barbara Feldon's sake, for myself as an 8-year-old's sake -- for it to be good.



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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2008, 11:46:30 pm »
I was just watching Anne Hathaway as a guest on The View,  promoting Get Smart.

She was asked "Do you prefer working with the women or the men?"

And her answer "well the men I mix with in real life a usually gay........."

I didnt really take any notice of the rest of her sentence.

I know her brother is gay, so she probably mixes with his friends.

Is she connected with any male herself, does anyone know??
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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2008, 01:39:13 am »
I am completely with you on everything you said, except:

1) I don't love The Rock, though my mind is still open about him.

2) I am extremely hopefully giving the previews the benefit of the doubt and finding them kind of funny. OK, so I wasn't ROTFLMFAO watching either the trailer or the NYT snippets. But I want so much -- for our Anne's sake, for Steve's sake, for Buck's and Mel's and Don Adams' and Barbara Feldon's sake, for myself as an 8-year-old's sake -- for it to be good.





Well, my love for the Rock is of a different nature.  I've never actually seen him in a movie, but he does something for me...  And I've seen him in a couple of interviews, and he seems plenty smart too, with a quick wit.  And we know how I like me some quick wit.

Who can tell us what the original Get Smart and That Girl had in common?  :)



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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2008, 01:47:36 am »
Looking on the IMDb page for the old show, I found this link where, apparently, you can watch all the episodes in Seasons 1-5.  I haven't gotten it to work yet, if you can, let me know:

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/Get_Smart.html

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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2008, 10:03:01 am »
Who can tell us what the original Get Smart and That Girl had in common?  :)

They both featured actresses with long, dark, sleek, perfect '60s hair? That's the main thing I would have noticed, because my own '60s hair was none of the above.


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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2008, 10:29:18 am »
Anne looks so beautiful in the movie poster picture!

That's sad that she and her long term boyfriend are breaking up and they share a dog. The article says they still love each other. Who knows -- maybe after a break, they will decide to get back together.

I watched the hilarious TV series -- if the movie is like that, then it's supposed to be dumb. LOL.

The Rock -- handsome guy; great body. Good taste, Elle.

All of our 4 loves from Brokeback Mountain continued making movies after their masterpiece. I am happy for Anne, Michelle, and Jake. I am anxious to see The Dark Knight. I read somewhere that the director had included a tribute to Heath at the end - I wonder if that means in the theater or on the DVD. I hope it's in theaters.

Was the man who played "Donald" in both shows, Elle? That's my guess.
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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2008, 10:41:59 pm »
Nice notice for Our Anne!

http://nymag.com/listings/movie/get-smart/

From New York Magazine:



Get Smart

Critics' Pick


Review

Get Smart is likable and very funny—at least a two-to-one ratio of excellent gags to clunkers—but it’s not, for better or worse, Get Smart. In spite of the ridiculous malfunctioning secret-agent gadgets, the sixties Mel BrooksBuck Henry sitcom wasn’t so much a James Bond parody as an American espionage reworking of Peter Sellers’s Inspector Clouseau. Agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) might have fancied himself 007, but he was a preening boob without a trace of self-awareness—which ironically ensured his triumph over his rational (and therefore easily flummoxed) foes. Peter Segal’s star-packed update is bursting with uproarious gadget shtick, but Steve Carell’s Max simply isn’t the idiot we knew and loved.

On his own terms, Carell is delightful. But he’s delightful as a mild-mannered know-it-all whose occasional flights of grandiosity can’t keep him from plummeting to Earth. He’s plucky but not impervious. He’s the hero of the deskbound techie nerds at headquarters, the geek who gets to move from his analyst job into the field and prove he has the wherewithal to think on his feet. (There’s a genius bit at a urinal.) It’s a valid question whether we’d want another obtuse, Don Adams–like Agent 86. Get Smart the sitcom was a one-joke affair and got tedious fast, whereas Carell’s starry-eyed dweeb has room for nuance, for growth, for inspiration. A case can be made for both Maxes. Me, I miss the thickie.

This Agent 99 is a more shrewdly updated model. She’s not the super-competent Barbara Feldon straight woman whose mushy subtext was to preserve Smart’s delusions of potency. Here, she’s a bratty show-off—a perfectly cast Anne Hathaway dressed to the 99s in Chanel. Like most young actresses, Hathaway has dropped too many pounds—in a couple of shots her cheeks have sunken so deep that they can barely hold her giant teeth. But the sleekness, the hard lines, the blacks and bright greens against that ivory skin—yowza. I also like the scene where she wears a tousled jacket and loosened tie: It says, “Okay, boys. Deal me in.” After this and The Devil Wears Prada, Hathaway must have designers camping out in front of her co-op.

As the Chief, the straight man, Alan Arkin gets to show off some of the best timing in movies. Watch how he expels a wordy one-liner involving a giant swordfish in one perfectly calibrated breath: A good bit becomes a haymaker. Too bad about Terence Stamp as the kaos kingpin Siegfried: The character is no longer an ethnic joke, but now he’s not much of anything. There’s a lot in the mix: Dwayne Johnson and his muscles as the agency stud; a giant killer (wrestler Dalip Singh) modeled on Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me; mild barbs at Bush and Cheney balanced by a yellowcake-uranium threat that turns out to be real (makes a change); and star cameos. To keep the groundlings happy, there are more spectacular chases and shoot-outs than in many genuine action movies.

The best scene, though, makes the case for elegance, even in broad comedy. It’s a bit at a hoity-toity Russian black-tie affair where 99—looking like the Mata Hari of our dreams in a jaw-dropping green gown slit in all the right places—waltzes off with the suave-baddie host, and jealous Max hits the floor with an obese young woman (Lindsay Hollister). It turns out that Hollister is enchantingly light on her feet, and Carell—this is his gift—makes his fatuousness seem like a state of grace.

— David Edelstein
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Re: Our Anne in a new movie: Get Smart!
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2008, 03:16:50 am »


Who can tell us what the original Get Smart and That Girl had in common?  :)




Bernie Kopell was on both shows at the same time.  He played Maxwell Smart's nemesis Siegfried, and Jerry Bauman on That Girl.