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Article: SMART MOVE; RUNNING GAG: Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell arent very original, but theyre still fun.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2008
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Byline: MATTHEW BOND
Get Smart
Director: Peter Segal Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp Certificate: 12A Time: 1hr 51mins ***
Somers Town
Director: Shane Meadows Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello Certificate: 12A Time: 1hr 22mins **
The spy thriller spoof is an exceptionally well travelled path, and in that context Get Smart breaks precious little in the way of new ground. Bond and Bourne are both predictably plundered, as are, astonishingly, Catherine Zeta- Jones's now iconic laser-avoiding contortions from Entrapment.
Well, that's only been done a couple of hundred times ...