The temptation is too great to use at to describe the movie and ranked as one. Fortunately, there are enough laughs scattered throughout this mediocre film version of the famous 1960's spy sitcom to rank it as simply mediocre. Of course, the major complaint will be the lack of featured actors from the original sitcom, most notably Ed Platt and Barbara Feldon. the iconic music theme isn't even heard in the opening, filled instead with a James bond-like song that just doesn't cut it.
The story surrounds Maxwell Smart's attempt to unmask a spy ring which creates a weapon of all of a sudden making people completely naked, with the intention of stopping Wars because how could you tell what side other people fighting were on. similar comedy was done just several years before and much better with "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and this copies it by having scenes in the United Nations building. Smart gets himself involved in more than several bizarre Capers, having a Chase sequence that goes through the Universal Studios (obviously an advertisement) then barely wrapping up that sequence, ends up at the avalanche country home of the still gorgeous Rhonda Fleming which then dissolves into another action sequence.
There had already been plenty of James Bond spoofs and they were certainly much better than this one. Adams is still successful and portraying the character's monotone cynicism, but other than a few opportunities to really be funny, he is basically just a shell of the original character thanks to your original missing co-stars with whom he had terrific chemistry. Putting voluptuous Sylvia Kristel in the female lead does nothing to advance the film's story other than for a bit of eroticism, but the presence of some popular character actors of the time does up my rating. Still, it's insignificant as anything other then a standard popcorn movie that was pretty much forgotten as soon as the credits were over.
The story surrounds Maxwell Smart's attempt to unmask a spy ring which creates a weapon of all of a sudden making people completely naked, with the intention of stopping Wars because how could you tell what side other people fighting were on. similar comedy was done just several years before and much better with "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and this copies it by having scenes in the United Nations building. Smart gets himself involved in more than several bizarre Capers, having a Chase sequence that goes through the Universal Studios (obviously an advertisement) then barely wrapping up that sequence, ends up at the avalanche country home of the still gorgeous Rhonda Fleming which then dissolves into another action sequence.
There had already been plenty of James Bond spoofs and they were certainly much better than this one. Adams is still successful and portraying the character's monotone cynicism, but other than a few opportunities to really be funny, he is basically just a shell of the original character thanks to your original missing co-stars with whom he had terrific chemistry. Putting voluptuous Sylvia Kristel in the female lead does nothing to advance the film's story other than for a bit of eroticism, but the presence of some popular character actors of the time does up my rating. Still, it's insignificant as anything other then a standard popcorn movie that was pretty much forgotten as soon as the credits were over.