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Shellshocked 'Letterman' Guest Steve Carell Sees Dead People
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:30 AM on June 19, 2008
Now that we've viewed Get Smart, we feel safe and more than a little sad to report that the sluggish advance word — i.e. "staggeringly bad" — overheard a few weeks ago wasn't too far from the truth. Worse yet, the contagion appeared to have reached Late Night with David Letterman on Tuesday, when the host noted a physical resemblance between star Steve Carell and the late Don Adams, the original Maxwell Smart whom Carell momentarily claimed to have met at this week's premiere. Honest mistake, apparently — he meant to say "Adams's widow"! Shortly after correcting Carell, Letterman proposed showing a clip; the star's deadpan gives way to a look of head-shaking terror we think he actually may have meant in earnest. Or perhaps it was just our post-Smart malaise messing with us. Judge for yourself after the jump, and let's all hope Carell has a less unnerving late-night act together by the time the inevitable Get Smart 2 comes around in a couple of years. [CBS]
Now that we've viewed Get Smart, we feel safe and more than a little sad to report that the sluggish advance word — i.e. "staggeringly bad" — overheard a few weeks ago wasn't too far from the truth. Worse yet, the contagion appeared to have reached Late Night with David Letterman on Tuesday, when the host noted a physical resemblance between star Steve Carell and the late Don Adams, the original Maxwell Smart whom Carell momentarily claimed to have met at this week's premiere. Honest mistake, apparently — he meant to say "Adams's widow"! Shortly after correcting Carell, Letterman proposed showing a clip; the star's deadpan gives way to a look of head-shaking terror we think he actually may have meant in earnest. Or perhaps it was just our post-Smart malaise messing with us. Judge for yourself after the jump, and let's all hope Carell has a less unnerving late-night act together by the time the inevitable Get Smart 2 comes around in a couple of years. [
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patrick
Posted July 9, 2008 9:10 AM
Get Smart looks okay over all though Steve Carell seems to be veering more and more toward not so funny slapstick humor
Losin_it
Posted 9:01 AM 19/6/08
I still can't figure out why anyone thought it was a good idea to re-do Get Smart. It was an awful, usually very unfunny TV show... but at least made sense at the time as a spoof on the roaring number of spy shows which were everywhere at the time.
Losin_it
Old No.7
Posted 8:47 AM 19/6/08
Still traumatized by Jared's special "touch".
Old No.7
CourageousCoward
Posted 7:56 AM 19/6/08
I thought he was shaking his head because he couldn't come up with anything better than "lucious" to describe the cameos in the film. But what do I know?
P.S. - They scoffed prior to the opening of "The Happening"...
CourageousCoward
raincoaster
Posted 11:57 AM 19/6/08
@Losin_it: Shut yo' mouth! T'was genius!
raincoaster
jimmyjamman
Posted 12:24 PM 19/6/08
>:
jimmyjamman
jimmyjamman
Posted 12:23 PM 19/6/08
There are no good movie, funny or otherwise. When the best reviewed film so far has been Ironman, I think we all need to admit that Hollywood is it's own worst cover band. Deep stuff.
jimmyjamman
Tiger_Tanaka
Posted 12:09 PM 19/6/08
@Losin_it: Get the hell out of here. You sound like Hymie the robot. Only not funny.
Tiger_Tanaka
bugupit
Posted 9:26 PM 19/6/08
Er, I meant "Feldon".
It's early here in the east.
bugupit
bugupit
Posted 9:24 PM 19/6/08
Anne Hathaway as 99? ALL wrong
Viva La Feldman!
bugupit
JohnKong
Posted 10:23 PM 19/6/08
what the? he didn't say he met don adams, david interrupted him before he could say 'widow'. way to mislead.
JohnKong
Losin_it
Posted 12:12 AM 20/6/08
@Tiger_Tanaka: Well, thank you for the negative feedback. I can't say I care very much about it, but any feedback, however clueless, has some use. So it's appreciated.
Losin_it
OldSpinDoc
Posted 2:34 AM 20/6/08
Hard to improve upon the perfection that was the original series (of which I have twin boxed dvd sets. One for home, and one for the office).
OldSpinDoc
NoGrumpys
Posted 3:08 AM 20/6/08
My review of the movie:
"Missed it by THAT much"
but better than that thing they called BEWITCHED (the movie)
NoGrumpys