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movie review - Get Smart

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2021.02.11

This is a luke-warm reboot of a TV show from the '60s that lacks a good deal of the charm of the original. I don't know what it is, but it felt like none of the cast were enjoying themselves as they do a paint-by-numbers bumbling lead male / smart secondary female thing.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell