With most TV series, it is just better never to look back. Again and again and again, TV movie reunion shows based on beloved TV series are in the end moribund messes that rarely reunite the cast, since so many of them are dead!! The worst of these awful TV movies that I have seen would have The Beverly Hillbillies (where almost all the cast was dead), Leave It To Beaver (where Ward was dead so June just talked to his tombstone) and Andy Griffith (where Otis was no longer a drunk and Barney was too pathetic to talk about further). While not AS bad as these movies, this GET SMART reunion movie isn't a whole lot better. At least it does have most of the original cast, though Ed Platt (the Chief) was too dead to appear--even with the assistance of Disney Animatronics or by way of a pact with Satan. Dick Gautier (Hymie), Barbara Feldon (99), Bernie Koppel (Ziegfried) and several other familiar faces from the original program do make appearances. The only problem is that although they did an impressive job as far as the cast goes, they gave them a terribly unfunny and uninvolving script. In the end, it's a time passer at best, and an insult to fans at worst.
Review of Get Smart, Again!
Get Smart, Again!
(1989 TV Movie)
Not as horrible as THE NUDE BOMB,...but that isn't saying much!
8 July 2006