Missed It By THAT Much

I can’t believe it’s back. All of it. The telephone booth, the red sports car, the theme song, the cone of silence, CONTROL, KAOS, the shoe phone and the sexy never-identified-by-name Agent 99. The phrases that became part of normal conversation, like “missed it by that much” and “would you belieeeve …?”

And of course, the greatest secret agent to ever foil an enemy plot: Maxwell Smart!

Get Smart is back as a movie this time, based on the TV show that ran from 1965 to 1970. Do you remember it? Did you watch it? Did you think it was funny then and you wonder why when you see it now on TV Land?

It stars the ubiquitous Steve Carell (The Forty Year Old Virgin, The Office, Bruce Almighty, Dan In Real Life), who seems to be in front of a camera almost as much as Ryan Seacrest and Rachel Ray.

I wonder of this silly, but memorable and legendary television program has been brought to the big screen by Boomers trying to capitalize on Boomer nostalgia or by Gen-Xers who think Boomers will actually pay money to sit through 100 minutes of Boomer nostalgia. Either way, it’ll probably work. This could be one of those rare movies that actually draws people over 40. I can name at least one fifty-something who will see it.

Then:


Now: