Summer Movie Review: Get Smart

As my sweet Songbird has finally flown back to the wilds of deepest, darkest Africa, I decided to take my first day alone again to cross another of the big summer movie releases off my to-see list. Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, the partnership behind the recent film version of Speed Racer, have unleashed their next repurposed TV property: the big-screen adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's classic Cold War spy-farce, Get Smart. Steve Carell picks up the fallen mantle of the world's most inept secret agent, Maxwell Smart, left by the late Don Adams, with Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries I-II) taking over from Barbara Feldon as Max's lovely sidekick/paramour, Agent 99. Rounding out the cast are Alan Arkin as The Chief, Heroes' Masi Oka as a nerdy CONTROL techie and Dwayne Johnson (he apparently no longer wishes to be called by his old pro-wrestling moniker, "The Rock") as the super-suave Agent 23.

( Here be spoilers aplenty. Don't you dare say you weren't warned. )