‘Get Smart’ is No. 1 at the Box Office, No. 2,789 with the Critics

A lot of you “Get Smart” are probably staring at the screen and going “Nyah-nyah-nyah” like little sugared up children because I put this film on last week’s “Sure to Suck” list. All it did was making the number one spot at the box office. If money proved that a film was good, “The Phantom Menace” would have won the Best Picture Oscar.

“Get Smart,” the TV adaptation starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway, took home the top spot at the box office this weekend, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Critically? Missed it by that much.

Sure there were some critics who thought it was funny, chief among them being TV talking head Richard Roeper who called it…

One of the more pleasant surprises of the year.

He would be referring to the fact he thought “Get Smart” was good, and not the fact that he gave a movie a good review.

The rest of the critique-o-sphere weren’t as amused. MTV’s Kurt Loder called it…

…an uneasy amalgam of slapstick comedy, half-hearted romance and, most desperately, rampaging action.

That’s pretty bad coming from a guy who got paid to report on Ugly Kid Joe’s upcoming video for a living.

Dan Lybarger at eFilmCritic.com gives it the worst review by comparing it to (drum roll)…

Along with ‘Speed Racer,’ ‘Get Smart’ is the movie adaptation of a TV-show that nobody was particularly waiting for.

Getting compared to the “Speed Racer” remake is just about as low as you can go, short of actually being part of the “Speed Racer” remake.

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