Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is one of the best analysts in the secret agency known as Control. The identities of all the Control agents have become compromised and they are attacked. With casualties high the agency decides to finally promote Max to full field agent, and pairs him up with Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) as they go on a mission to save the world from Kaos’ plot.

So yes the movie starts out with a lot of back story for Max, which we really don’t need, but thinking about it the whole movie is a back story to the 60s TV show. Everything about this movie is good. I loved the acting, the comedy, and the action. I think that’s what got me to say it’s such an enjoyable summer movie. I didn’t expect it to have such good action scenes. They aren’t enough to make this into a Wanted comedy, but there are enough that will give you a great side dish to the comedy scenes which definitely remind me of the original show.

Steve Carell got the role perfect for me. I loved the old TV show and used to watch it late at night when I was a child; and Carell finally got a role perfect. I’ve always had a problem with his acting, with belief that he could do the comedy role well, and here he finally accomplished that. Thumbs up to you Carell. Anne Hathaway definitely delivers as well here. She plays the experienced agent who is the straight “man” [not a sexist remark, just a term] in the duo which of course highlights Carell’s silly role. They both work off each other so well, makes you think back to those classic duos like Martin & Lewis.

Another thing that this movie does well is the smaller supporting roles are so well featured. I loved Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Masi Oka, James Caan and even Terry Crews & David Koechner [who I never really like in movies] here in this film. But my favourite has to be Bill Murray’s cameo, even though he doesn’t get more than five minutes on screen, and all you see is his face it definitely is branded into the back of your mind that this was amazing.

Thumbs up to Peter Segal for doing a great job directing this film. There are two times when you can tell a good director. One is when you forget that it’s a movie and just feel like you’re being told a competent story visually, and the other is when you get all the great cinematography with interesting camera angles and all that jazz. Even though Segal definitely falls into the former category rather than the later [which I tend to like more], it shows he knows what he’s doing.

The comedy is definitely amazing. Lots of hilarious gags to laugh at here. It ranges from straight up silly to completely physically funny. Like the scene with going through the lasers and the dance scene both hilarious.

Overall I recommend this movie to anyone. Especially to the fans of the show. However, one thing I must say, I think if you hold high expectations you may be disappointed because this movie is just one those enjoyable summer films you just sit down and enjoy rather than nitpick at the technical aspects or an amazing script. It is like a roller-coaster, you just sit down and enjoy each dip and curve that the story takes throughout the film and you surely will. I think this is definitely my guilty pleasure of the summer, something that will be underrated but fun to watch over and over.

IMDB says 7.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 52%

I say 7.5/10