The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt on "Get Smart":
"This is a slap-dash effort whose producers threw money and stunts onscreen instead of the satirical gags and one-liners that made the old spy spoof so memorable... the overriding factor here is that the filmmakers -- this would include ham-fisted director Peter Segal and the punchless writing team of Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember -- don't know what the joke is. Is this a spoof of an old TV series. Is this a spoof of Ian Fleming? Is this a Carell vehicle? No one seems to know as familiar lines crop up in the wrong places and the timing of gags, so indelibly rendered in the series, misfires on nearly every occasion."I saw this last night and it was pretty bad. None of the jokes really worked, and just about every major action set piece was stolen from another, better movie. Remember Catherine Zeta-Jones' ass ducking under those laser beams in "Entrapment"? Hope you liked it, because Anne Hathaway re-enacts the scene here almost word-for-word and motion-for-motion.
The one and only reason to root for this movie to succeed is that it could potentially lead to a sequel/remake of "The Nude Bomb" and Anne Hathaway would be in it.