{"id":2202,"date":"2009-01-25T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2202.html"},"modified":"2009-01-25T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T09:48:40","slug":"get-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2009\/01\/25\/get-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Get Smart<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between <i>Get Smart<\/i> and many other spy comedy films such as <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/quickreviews\/001185.html\">Johnny English<\/a><\/i> is that the main character Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is not <em>incompetent<\/em>.  The film doesn&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to tortuously explain why an imbecile is placed in charge of saving the world. Instead it <em>chooses<\/em> to create an unlikely situation that grants CONTROL analyst Smart his dearest wish of becoming a field agent.  Smart&#8217;s inevitable pratfalls are the result of inexperience rather than inability. This makes it easier to sympathise and identify with him, and makes the film&#8217;s humour feel very comfortable \u2014 like you&#8217;re laughing at a friend.<\/p>\n<p>And Anne Hathaway looks nice, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between Get Smart and many other spy comedy films such as Johnny English is that the main character Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is not incompetent. The film doesn&#8217;t have to tortuously explain why an imbecile is placed in charge of saving the world. Instead it chooses to create an unlikely situation that grants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1477,1255,1629,1631],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-annehathaway","tag-comedy","tag-spy","tag-stevecarell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}