Get Smart: The Complete Series

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This particular Get Smart is the Fox television network's 1995 revival of the CBS hit show that debuted 30 years earlier. A softer, less satirical and less worldly version of the original show that was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the new Get Smart nevertheless brings Don Adams back to the role of Maxwell Smart, agent 86 for counter-intelligence agency Control. Married to former agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), now a U.S. Congresswoman, Max is the new Chief of Control, bungling through his desk job yet somehow still managing to stymie the evil forces of Kaos. In a way, Get Smart isn't really Adams' or Feldon's show anymore. The two are seen frequently enough, but much of the comic action now belongs to Andy Dick as the Smarts' son Zach, who graduates to full agent in the series' premiere episode. A bumbler with an inflated sense of his expertise, Zach is very much Max's son. Continuing the parallel between generations, Zach is also paired with an attractive and more professional agent, 66 (Elaine Hendrix), who gradually warms to him over several episodes. Good thing, because that's all there is: after seven programs, Get Smart came to an end, and that's all this DVD has to offer. Even if it isn't brilliant, the family-friendly show has a lot of funny moments, particularly when Dick gets to engage his talent for physical comedy. His interactions with Hendrix occasionally border on classic screwball comedy, a nice balance with the obvious warmth between Adams and Feldon. --Tom Keogh

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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.

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MUY BUENA!!   August 29, 2008
Cesar Duran (San Salvador, El Salvador)
La produccion me hizo recordar buenos momentos que pase divirtiendome con la serie original, y aunque no es igual ya que los artistas ahora son mas viejos, la gracia se mantiene y los nuevos entrantes actores le dan una semblanza diferente y buena a los capitulos. Me parece una buena compra nostalgica y a la vez de un paso hacia el frente.


bad marketing   August 14, 2008
J. Leeuwen
Get Smart video was not original series, as I'd expected. Totally disapointed and a waste of money.


Thought it was the original series!   July 28, 2008
Dean Pfefferle (Trenton, TN. USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

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?   July 26, 2008
Alfred D. Cornell (Tucson, AZ 85705)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

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!   July 13, 2008
Randy E. Halford (Boise, ID)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

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.