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Get Smart

A limp, lumbering movie version of the 1960s television series. As Maxwell Smart, the bumbling secret agent originally played by Don Adams, Steve Carell is clumsy when a given scene needs him to be clumsy, suave when he’s needed to be suave and a martial arts expert when the movie requires it (and not in a funny way). The show at least had a silly logic to it; this picture has no idea what it wants to be.

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