Get Smart: The Complete Series
Starring: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Andy DickStudio: Sony Pictures
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Running Time: 158 minutes
DVD Release: June 3rd 2008
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DVD Review
Join Agents 86 and 99 years later as they struggle to keep arch-rival KAOS from gaining world domination. This time they get a little help from their son and newly-minted spy, Zack, and Max, now the Chief of Control.
User Reviews
bad marketing - Rating: 1/5
Get Smart video was not original series, as I'd expected. Totally disapointed and a waste of money.
Thought it was the original series! - Rating: 2/5
I didn't even know there was a sequel series where Don Adams had a son following in his footprints. Surprise; that's what this DVD is.
Would ya believe, it's a complete cash-in on the real series? - Rating: 2/5
It promises to have the laughs you expected from the original series, but it falls dead with very little to laugh at. The best thespian in the whole thing is the busty blonde who teams up with Max and 99's son, and that's just wrong. Don Adams made the first one hilarious, with copious help from Mel Brooks, the king of parody, but he's actually NOT funny this time. Do yourself a favor and just pretend this series doesn't exist. Buy the original five-season series instead. Sure, it's pricey, but unlike this pile, it's funny.
Missed it by THAT much! - Rating: 4/5
The main problem in following up a classic series is that fans who love the original---and thus, make up the bulk of TV viewership---can make or break a new series. After all, the name of the game among networks is the Ratings Game---if you don't have the high numbers, then it's bye-bye.
This is what seemed to have happened with "The New Get Smart", which never made it beyond its first seven episodes.
It's too bad that TNGS didn't catch on, because it held promise. Don Adams (who looked more fit & healthy here than five years earlier in the "Get Smart Again" TV-movie) and Barbara Feldon reprise their roles as Max & 99. Except this time around, things have changed: Max is the chief of CONTROL (Lord help us!) and 99 is a congresswoman with budget ties to her old organization. Actually, they are more of supporting characters for the newly-promoted antics of their son, Zachary Smart (a typically nerdy but likeable Andy Dick). Of course, Zach is just as bumbling as his Dad, but in Dick's own comic stylings. As history repeats itself, he is partnered with a beautiful, skilled & intelligent blond partner, Agent 66 (99 turned upside down..get it?), played by Elaine Hendrix.
Some new supporting players are included: Trudy, a ditzy secretary hired as a temp who thinks CONTROL is a talent agency (!!), a faceless femme-fatale now running the evil organization KAOS, Agent Zero (a master of disguise), and Agent 9 (who is really IS nine years old).
Even some old familiar faces pop up: Dave Ketchum reprises his role as Agent 13 (hiding in a bowl of cole slaw in one episode) and even Bernie Kopell guest stars as the nefarious Siegfried, unemployed by KAOS and exacting revenge on both Max & Zach.
I loved the hilarious opening credits for this series, a new variation on the old access-to-CONTROL theme, by using a car wash as cover. This series lacks the satirical zing of the old series, but it has its moments of loopy verbal comedy & goofy gadgets, 1990's style.
Who knows what this series could have accomplished if it continued? They were barely scratching the surface of Zach & 66's partnership-relationship.
TNGS is probably too obscure for the casual viewer, but definitely of interest to lovers of Get Smart.
Not a family-friendly series - Rating: 1/5
If you're getting this because you have fond memories of Maxwell Smart, bumbling agent and you want to share his zaniness with your children, don't! This is NOT a family-friendly series. The first time you see the agent paired with Maxwell's Smart's klutzy son, she is clothed in pants and a metal bra/camisole with prominent nipple guns. There are sexual innuendos galore. If that's your thing, by all means, buy it. But it was not what I was expecting.
And Maxwell Smart and 99 play second-fiddle to their son and his partner, so there's not much Don Adams zing there either.
