This article is about the 2008 remake film. For the 1989 reunion movie, see Get Smart, Again!
Get Smart is a
2008 film adaptation of
Mel Brooks and
Buck Henry's 1960s spy parody television series,
Get Smart. The film stars
Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and
Anne Hathaway as Agent 99.
Alan Arkin plays the Chief.
Dwayne Johnson,
Terence Stamp,
Terry Crews,
David Koechner,
Masi Oka,
Ken Davitian,
Larry Miller,
Patrick Warburton and
Dalip "The Great Khali" Singh also star.
Bernie Kopell, who played Siegfried in the original series, makes a cameo appearance.
Bill Murray also appears as Agent 13 hidden in an empty tree trunk.
Synopsis
Maxwell Smart (
Steve Carell), the top analyst of the top secret American intelligence agency CONTROL, hopes to become a field agent like his idol, Agent 23 (
Dwayne Johnson), but despite scoring extremely well in the acceptance tests Max is denied the promotion because the Chief of CONTROL (
Alan Arkin) thinks Max is too valuable as an analyst. This changes when CONTROL headquarters is attacked by their arch-enemy, the terrorist organization KAOS, led by a man known only as Siegfried (
Terence Stamp). As a result, almost all of CONTROL's agents are exposed and killed. Max becomes Agent 86 and is partnered with Agent 99 (
Anne Hathaway), whose recent plastic surgery has protected her identity, while former field operatives like 23 are demoted to desk jobs.
