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Get Smart!

I will start by this movie, not because it is the most fabulous, although it is fabulous, but because it is the first time I saw a comedic action movie and loved it.
It was not silly and not deep but deep enough to believe. I have never seen this combination before, to have credible problems with credible solutions yet has the most hilarious ones too, I couldn't make up my mind, is this an action movie or a comedic one, yet it is better than both. Later this formula evaded to most of the Bond-like movies in different degrees!
As serious and excellent Max is in his job, the more we laugh and admire him. He doesn't think he is funny, he is persistently trying to accomplish his dreams!
Anne Hathaway- a real life fan of Steve- can't be more adorable as an efficient agent that changed her face to hide a blown up work relation with an agent who is working 10 feet away, just to avoid working behind a desk. 
On the other hand Max while very efficient in working behind the desk; he is even boring everyone in the office with his detailed work; it is this meticulousness and not his physical agent skills that saved the day!
There are more than one satirical parts in this movie too; the shoe phone which Steve said in one interview when they asked him; did the CIA complain that you revealed any secrets, he replied if we are talking in a shoe phone and this is a credible secret then we are screwed!!!. 
The other part about the cold war lords who still have this dream of controlling the word!!! 
Also, we have the office under the museum of the same agency!!! just too deep to be discovered!
The Rock was there! Alan Arkin was there, and the list is unbelievable!!
If you haven't seen this movie, you really need to Get smart and go watch it!!!





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