Get Smart, Again! (1989 TV Movie)
6/10
This is an amusing Maxwell Smart movie with lot of laughs , sympathetic acting, mayhem and silly messes.
14 July 2021
A gem of comedy with laughs , thrills , emotion , messes , lots of face-twitching , grunting , entertainment and amusement . Smart (Dom Adams) is back again as CONTROL's most incompetent agent causing trouble again .Maxwell Smart is a bumbling secret agent, assigned by his "Chief" to foil KAOS' latest plans for taking over the world . Equally , Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon) as his sidekick and wife , a highly intellectual agent working for the CONTROL agency, and robot Hymie (Dick Gautier) and those no-goodnicks at KAOS , including a traitor that they have to discover . Smart is called back to line of duty , while KAOS is back causing trouble again with a weather machine . Although instructed to keep his mission secret from his wife, 99, Max can't keep hiding from her forever, and soon the two battle the evil forces of rival spy agency . Along the way they are working together again in twisted cases . Agent 86 in his second full length feature . . . In action with agent 99 , the Smart girl who'll measure up to anything!

Nice TV film with the classic roles of the unforgettable and similar plot with a lot of fun .Seldom a hilarious jigsaw has so many amusingly fitting pieces .This is second reunion film following ¨The Nude Bomb¨ from the 60s TV show highlights all the wacky gadgetry , including the shoe phone , but falls to find the show's outlandishness . Splendid and attractive cast delivers a solid comedy , but silly at times , being a really nostalgic reunion , Dom Adams plays in his usual style as botcher, bungler or clumsy agent 86 called back to duty as KAOS is back , this time with a 'weather machine'. Helped of his competent partner Agent , a very faithful assistant well played by Barbara Feldon . Cued by engaging and likeable portrayals from a motley support cast , such as : Dick Gautier as Hymie, Bernie Kopell as Siegfried , King Moody , Harold Gould , Kenneth Mars , John de Lancie , among others . It contains a lively and moving musical score , including the classic leitmotif as well as appropriate and colorful cinematography , though a perfect remasttering being necessary . The picture was professionally directed by Gary Nelson who already made a lot of TV episodes .

The Maxwell Smart story based on characters created by Mel Brooks , Buck Henry , Leonard Stern has been developed in the following series and films : Get Smart series (1965-1970) in 138 episodes . The Nude Bomb movie1980 by Clive Donner with Sylvia Kristel , Rhonda Fleming , Dana Elcar , Pamela Hensley. Get Smart (1995-1995) in five episodes . A spin-off : Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control 2008 by Junger with Masi Oka , Nace Torrence. And Get Smart the movie 2008 by B Peter Segal with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart , Anne Hattaway as Agent 99 , Dwayne Johnson as Agent 23 , Alan Arkin as The Chief and Terence Stamp, as Siegfried.
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