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A 2008 Film adaptation of the '60s Television receiver series of the aforementioned name. Starring Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway every bit 99, Dwayne "The Stone" Johnson as beau operative Agent 23, and Alan Arkin equally the Chief.

In this version, Max is a brilliant Command annotator who failed the physical exam to be a field agent. After a year of difficult work to get in shape, he finally succeeds — simply even so doesn't get a promotion because he's besides valuable in his position. Then, due to a mole in the system, the secret identities of almost of its agents are leaked. This forces the Chief to send agents their enemies won't recognize — the newly-promoted Max equally Agent 86 and Agent 99, fresh from a round of drastic cosmetic surgery because her outset identity had been compromised. They venture to the Ukraine to observe some stolen radioactive materials that take fallen into the hands of their archenemies, KAOS. Hilarity (and Unresolved Sexual Tension) ensues.

Critical reaction was mixed, but audiences by and large institute information technology to be respectful and entertaining. Mel Brooks fifty-fifty praised Steve Carell's acting.

Aslope the film, a straight-to-DVD Spin-Off titled Get Smart'southward Bruce and Lloyd: Out of CONTROL was released, which follows the escapades of Those Two Guys during the events of the film.

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Tropes:

• The Ace: Amanuensis 23. He turns out to exist a double amanuensis.
• Activity Moving-picture show, Serenity Drama Scene: Tries this a couple of times, and really succeeds. Examples include Max'southward annotator briefing at the starting time, and some of Max and 99'south scenes in Russian federation.
• Action Daughter: Amanuensis 99. Coming fresh off a plastic surgery, she all the same kicks a lot of donkey, including walloping three mooks by herself while Max struggles with one.
• Activeness Wearing apparel Rip: 99 does one coming out of the sewers
• Adaptation Personality Change: Many characters act rather different from the series to the point of being extremely difficult to recognize:
  • Max in the serial was a Deject Cuckoo Lander who was withal (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially bad-mannered, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he'due south a very down-to-earth and intelligent man, just comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent feel equally well equally existence a little immature, is a pretty smooth social operator exterior of talking to 99, and is a definite Deadpan Snarker, which, because his actor, we wouldn't wait anything else.
  • 99 in the serial was a Overnice Girl who highly respected Max, got disappointed with him at worst, and was very willing to be his partner (and had an obvious crush on him ever since the pilot). In the movie, she's a Defrosting Ice Queen who has (understandably) very negative reactions to his incompetence, and seems to retain some annoyance even later they become together and he proves himself. She's also very snarky and irritable, even with other characters.
  • The Master in the series was the Only Sane Man who got quietly annoyed with Max'south incompetence at worst. In the movie, he almost seems to have a Hair-Trigger Temper. And is a very sarcastic grapheme.
  • Siegfried in the series was Affably Evil, because Max a Worthy Opponent and the 2 existence on very skilful terms, plus Siegfried in general was very hammy and a bit goofy. In the flick, he'south... most generic, with how serious and sinister he is, some viewers being reminded of one-shot villains from the original series rather than Siegfried himself. The closest he gets to being deliberately comedic is some snarky jabs.
  • Larabee in the series was The Ditz, even more than Max. In the moving-picture show, he's a Wiggle Jock.
  • Hymie in the series was (after his first episode) a pacifistic robot, who fought only when necessary. In the movie, he has a cameo appearance where he insults Larabee and staples a paper to his forehead in retaliation for a bit of Poke the Poodle.

• Adaptational Intelligence:
  • In the Telly series Get Smart Max was a full general-purpose bungling idiot who merely succeeds past luck and Amanuensis 99'south competence. In the film he's genuinely a clever guy and a great analyst, merely inexpirenced equally he's never been out in the field before the film, plus a little young. This was apparently done to make a romantic relationship with 99 more than believable equally modern audience would not accept someone as buffoonish as the original Max being bonny to a woman equally capable as 99.
  • Larabee in the original series is fifty-fifty more of a dunce than Max (he has been referred to as "Max's Max"), whereas in the film he's a jerkass but competent agent.
• Air-Vent Passageway: Agent 99 infiltrates the KAOS nuclear manufacturing plant through an air vent from the roof. It's done with "Ode to Joy" every bit the soundtrack, which reminds y'all of the first Die Hard film.
• Caused Poison Amnesty: Max has trained his body to exist impervious to knockout gas. Compassion information technology's the new stuff.
• Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking: "I don't know. Were you lot thinking, 'Holy shit! holy shit! A swordfish well-nigh went through my head!'? If so, then aye."
• Artistic License – Gun Prophylactic: 99 holds Max'south weapon on him and mimes shooting him. She'due south good to keep her finger off the trigger though, though the weapon too happens to be loaded.
• Bad Dominate: Siegfried constantly belittles his various mooks, thinking himself Surrounded by Idiots. They really aren't terribly stupid: Shtarker complains in one case that he'd like to quit, but Siegfried is his blood brother-in-police force, while Dalip fulfills his part of the programme to nuke Los Angeles, but also covertly alerts Max, giving Control enough time to foil the program. Then he punches Siegfried clean out of their getaway car when he insults Dalip's wife.

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Siegfried treats Dalip like Dumb Musculus; Max gives him advice on how to salvage his flagging marriage. Dalip becomes a Double Amanuensis.
• Berserk Button:
  • A fair discussion of warning: exercise not always question or mock the Principal'south credentials or Command itself's credentials, or yous should pray yous don't get a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in front of your young man chiffonier members. Than again, it'southward protrayed more as a The Final Straw bargain, as information technology's strongly implied the Vice President is a Jerkass towards the Chief, and the Main finally had enough.
  • Besides, never insult The Beast'south wife, which Siegfried learns when he insults Dalip's wife one time also many and ends up being punched out of his car hard enough to be knocked over a span for his trouble.
  • Agent 99's push, as shown when she's existence held hostage and handcuffed to the support handle in Agent 23'southward car. Later he fires at Max, and she kicks his gun out:

    Agent 23: Run into, this is your problem! Some men like women who are feminine!
    Agent 99: (disbelieving outrage) What, I'thou not feminine?!
    Agent 23: Nooo.
    Amanuensis 99: I'One thousand Non FEMININE?!?!?!
    (kicks him in the face, causing him to swerve and castor another car)

• Large Fun:
  • Max used to be an utter fatass before boot campsite. Nosotros even become a couple of flashbacks to it, of him trying and failing to climb a rope, then this scene where he weighs down the zipline significantly:

    Maxwell Smart: Personal best!

  • He also has a nightmare well-nigh it later when he's been detained for destroying what everyone else believes to be an ordinary baker: the guards shove a birthday cake through the food slot, which he rushes to devour when it smashes on the flooring, causing him to wake upwardly and scream "I'k Fat!".
  • At Krstic's political party, Max deliberately snubs a group of skinny Alpha Bowwow socialites and picks a very large woman to be his trip the light fantastic partner. They continue to steal the evidence.

    Maxwell Smart: I recently lost 150 pounds.
    Max's Trip the light fantastic Partner: So did I!

• Blackness-Tie Infiltration: Max and 99 gate-crash a party held at the mansion of a KAOS operative named Ladislav Krstic in order to steal computer records on the attack on Command headquarters. The sequence also features a tango dance-off scene between 99 and Krstic, and Max and a quite overweight immature lady.
• Bond I-Liner: Well, not done for a killing, but Agent 23 does ane when he breaks Larabee's telephone later on seeing Larabee texting during an important meeting: "Oh that's weird. You lot just lost your betoken."
• Staff of life, Eggs, Breaded Eggs:

  Maxwell Smart: You know, I never saw James Bond in rats or poop, allow lone rats *and* poop. Oh expect, there'due south a rat riding on a slice of poop.

• Pause Out the Museum Slice: When Max escapes from his prison cell, he passes a museum display of the old 1960s Command spy gear and chop-chop gain to gear up with it. Subverted with the car, at least, since that runs out of gas afterwards almost a few hundred feet and he'south forced to try and hitch a ride.
• Bring My Chocolate-brown Pants: Subsequently the attack on CONTROL. The "ungodly smell" that Lloyd can only depict as "fear". Yeah.
• The Beast: Dalip, Siegfried'south imposing right-paw man. Who turns out to be a Punch-Clock Villain who only wants the coin to look after his married woman.
• Butt-Monkey: Larabee tries to act badass but otherwise e'er ends up suffering grievous mishaps. Like having Agent 23 staple a document to his head every bit retribution for non unjamming the copier motorcar.
• The Cameo: Bill Murray equally Agent thirteen (the one in the tree who operates the Reflecting Pool entrance to the secure Control offices).
• Cars Without Tires Are Trains: 23 takes 99 hostage and flees in a vehicle. Afterwards a hunt, Max manages to rescue 99, just in the struggle, the car is set on fire and forced onto railroad tracks. The tires shred and become smaller railroad wheels. Max kisses 23 to distract him, a play tricks learned from 99. He and 99 are thrown off the vehicle before it collides with a freight railroad train, killing 23.

• Chekhov's Exhibit: The 1960s CONTROL gear in the museum seen in the opening scenes proves quite useful subsequently.
• Chekhov's Gun: Quite a lot of things in the motion-picture show. From Max'southward points about evil beingness what these guys do to Agent 23's knife wound that opens upwards when he gets stressed to Max being a crackshot.
  • There'due south a moment where Max mentions he likes the same radio bear witness every bit Daleep, which prompts Daleep to give the hint as to where the flop is on the radio show.
• Chekhov'due south Gunman: Max is speaking his troubles out to a pet store dog in the display window when a female jogger runs right into him. Said jogger turns out to be Amanuensis 99. Heck, even the dog makes a render when 99 adopts it.
• CIA Evil, FBI Skilful: This movie is the folio quote for the trope. In this case, it'south CIA Evil, Command Expert.

  Agent 23: If yous don't follow the rules here then what are we?
  The Main: I'm telling you what we're non. Nosotros're non people who jam staples into other people'south heads! That's CIA crap!

• *Click* Hi: Max has just found Bruce and Lloyd taking cover afterward CONTROL has been attacked. As he starts to check to come across if anyone else is around, he all of a sudden feels a pistol to his dorsum:

  Agent 99: Freeze!
  Maxwell Smart: Freeze.
  Agent 99: No, you freeze!
  Maxwell Smart: You freeze.
  Agent 99: I told you to freeze!
  Maxwell Smart: Freeze, times infinity.
  Agent 99: Oh, my god! (turns Max around so that he's facing her, and they recognize each other) You lot!
  Maxwell Smart: You.
  Agent 99: Are you CONTROL?
  Maxwell Smart: Yes I am. I'thou Maxwell Smart. I am a CONTROL analyst. Who are you?
  (trounce)
  Agent 99: I'chiliad Amanuensis 99.

• Comically Missing the Point: The homeland security council gets caught up on a threat by Kim Jong-Il to make a pudding from the bones of America.

  General: Doesn't he know bones are crunchy? Who'd want a crunchy pudding?

• Cool Car: Max goes through quite a lot of these.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Max and Agent 23. Agent 23 is one of the tiptop agents of Control and is liked by practically everyone. Max is a simple analyst who is not given nigh as much respect. Despite this, 23 is one of the only agents who doesn't belittle Max and is shown to actively support him. This is afterward subverted when 23 is revealed to exist The Mole.
• Cool Onetime Guy: The Chief. He'due south a former CONTROL agent, himself, and withal hasn't lost his touch, such as piloting a plane to trail an escaping car and punches a Secret Service amanuensis in the face who insulted his organization, not to mention his flying tackle to the vice president. Fifty-fifty the president is impressed.
• Crash-Into Hello: While Max is speaking his troubles out to a pet store window dog, Agent 99 plows into him while on her daily jog. They exchange a few words, and so she continues on her way. A moment later, some other human wheeling a dolly comes past, and one of his wheels runs over Max's foot, prompting him to enquire himself, "Am I invisible?"
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Max
• Cutaway Gag: When the meeting in the safety room occurs, the Chief says that their identities accept been compromised, and all across the globe, Command agents are under attack. Cuts to shots of Command agents dropping dead like flies past poisoned darts in Parisian cafes, ready to French music.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Max, again.
  • Agent 99 in some scenes.

    (when chewing out Max for being and then inexperienced)
    Amanuensis 99: Throw out your manual. Out hither in that location are no grades. There's only "dead" and "non dead".
    (later, in the Smolensk restaurant)
    Agent 99: You know, I honey bread, and I know staff of life has a few carbs, simply I've never been afraid of carbs, considering it seems like no affair how many I eat, I stay thinsk.

  • The Chief too manages to throw in a few neat ones.

  (after Max crashes a car into a giant sword fish that was inches abroad from impaling him through the face.)
  Max: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
  Primary: I don't know. Where you thinking, "Holy shit, holy shit, a swordfish virtually went through my head"? If so, yes.

• Section of Back-up Department:

  Amanuensis 23: I'll be taking that briefcase now.
  Maxwell Smart: If you lot want it; you'll have to take it.
  Amanuensis 23: That'due south what I just said.
  Maxwell Smart: I know. I'm just trying to annoy you.

• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • Amanuensis 23 is a paragon of what an amanuensis should exist, which is why Max admires him. And yet, he still walks straight into a support pole when Judy, the Sexy Secretary at the forepart desk-bound, smiles and flirts with him.
  • Also, the Bath Pause-Out scene. The air marshal does non notice Max'southward troubles with the escape system in the lavatory because he's busy flirting with the flight attendant. They're still flirting when the occupied light goes off a few minutes later, which signals for Amanuensis 99 to enter the lavatory that Max didn't walk out of before, and make her drop, unnoticed by the air marshal.
• Don't Explain the Joke: Max and 99 are in the Smolensk buffet, and this conversation:

  Agent 99: So, how do you know this identify?
  Maxwell Smart: Well, as an analyst, I like to go on my ears open. It's amazing what yous tin acquire listening to chatter. In fact, Ladislas Krstic loves this place, as do many KAOS agents. Cafe Minsk Pinsk in Smolensk — it doesn't go any better than thisk.
  (99 stares at him)
  Maxwell Smart: Encounter what I just did? I added an "insk" at the stop of the discussion. Made it audio Russian.
  Amanuensis 99: Should've smacked y'all harder.
  Maxwell Smart: Is that your default setting? Practise you simply dial people in the face, willy-nilly? "It's Tuesday, I'll dial Max in the face up." "Ooh, a box of kittens, time to dial Max in the face." "Oh, I'thousand having some bread, time to punch Max in the face!"
  Amanuensis 99: You know, I honey staff of life, and I know bread has a few carbs, but I've never been afraid of carbs, considering information technology seems like no affair how many I eat, I stay thinsk.

• Double Entendre: Ii instances.
  • When the Main says they demand someone not known to KAOS to observe Krstic, 99 lampshades it:

    Larabee: Permit me out there, sir! I have no problem exposing myself.
    Agent 99: Do you ever call back before you speak?
    Larabee: No, I just whip it out at that place. Seems to work all-time.

• Double Take: Amanuensis 99'due south reaction at the sight of Max dangling from a cable continued to a airplane to come and rescue her.
• Dye or Dice: 99 recently has had a plastic surgery, thus when a mole in CONTROL compromises most of its agents' identities, hers remained intact and thus is still qualified for active service.
• Eenie, Meenie, Miny Moai: Max remarks on an uncanny resemblance when seeing Dalip in the back of the airplane...

  Max: Whoa, that's a bad guy, that'due south a really bad guy! Did yous see his confront? His head looks like i of the Easter Island heads!

• Empty Quiver: KAOS gets a nuke and threatens to nuke Los Angeles at the cease of "Ode to Joy" in a concert in Disney Hall, which the President is attending.
• Establishing Character Moment: Siegfried establishes himself as a much more than serious villain with his first line. Instead of doing a bad impression of Shtarker, he says in a depression sinister vocalization, "This is KAOS. Nosotros don't Ka-fricking-smash hither." He also shoots a henchman who questions their demand to torch the building they are looting.
• Fanservice: A literal 2d of Amanuensis 99 in in her underwear. Plus a couple panty shots during the Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation Hallway scene.

• Flashback Cut: To Max's time in boot camp, multiple times.
• For Inconvenience, Press "1": When Siegfried calls the White Firm to extort a few billion dollars from the The states authorities in commutation for non releasing nuclear weapons' arming codes to several crazy dictators, he gets caught past i of these.

  Phone organization: Y'all have reached the Us Department of Homeland Security. For threats confronting the continental United States, press ane. For threats against Hawaii, press 2. For threats confronting Puerto Rico[...] If you're calling from a rotary...

• Fun with Acronyms: In the original series, Hymie was originally named after his creator's father (a embrace story he adopted later). In this movie it stands for "HYbrid Mechanical Intelligence Entity"
• Genius Ditz: Max is CONTROL'due south top analyst — too bad he wants to exist a field amanuensis...
• Gilligan Cut: When 99 and Max dump their motorcycle at a gas station. She says they demand to find a car that doesn't attract attention.

  Maxwell Smart: All right, well nosotros have a couple of Soviet-era sedans here. We take that tractor, that cart. And... (looks within a barn door and notices something) that'll work.
  Agent 99: No.
  Maxwell Smart: Yeah.
  Agent 99: (looks at him, bewildered) No!
  Maxwell Smart: (starts entering the garage) Yess....
  (cuts to Max and Agent 99 driving down a country route in a bright cherry, very conspicuous, Ferrari convertible that sticks out like a sore pollex)
  Agent 99: Oh yep, we are really nether the radar now.
  Maxwell Smart: Will y'all relax? Since the fall of Communism, everybody has one of these here.
  (they drive past a couple of farmers doing transmission labor)
  Russian Farmer: (subtitled) Holy shit, a Ferrari!
  (his married woman whips out a prison cell phone and promptly takes a picture of the automobile)

• Groin Attack:
  • One is actually delivered without physical contact:

    Amanuensis 99: Max has no experience, and I don't want him every bit my partner.
    Maxwell Smart: Well, that is a sucker punch to the gonads.

  • For the physical variety, before during the paintball exercise in the aforementioned movie, after a crack almost Max's mother, Max shoots the taunter in the crotch.
  • Agent 99 kicks a goon in the family unit jewels during the confrontation at the party.
  • Dalip, on the other hand, has Assurance of Steel and ignores Agent 99's low blows.
• Hand Signals: In the CONTROL infiltration scene, Max gives these to 99 to point that he is going to utilize the fire hose to distract the attackers, but she clearly is not able to interpret them right abroad.
• Heel–Confront Turn: Dalip, The Brute of CHAOS, ends up giving Max a tip on how to defuse the nuclear bomb Siegfried planted after Max offers him advice on how to ready his weakening spousal relationship.
• Hypocritical Humor: Later breaking out of jail, Max tries to flag down an Opel by standing in the centre of the road:

  Opel Commuter: What are you doing, dummkopf?! Running out in the heart of the route?! You could go hit by a car— (is immediately rear-ended by an SUV)
  Maxwell Smart: Well, that... was ironic.

• Idiot Brawl: Max isn't going to be accused of being a genius anytime before long, but the airplane scene was such a lack of common sense that it deserves mention. Afterwards being arrested past a federal marshal for making the whole plane think he was a terrorist by trying to scrape gum off his shoe, he is handcuffed with a set up of plastic band cuffs. When Max tries to cutting them off in the plane's bath, he uses a modified Swiss Army Pocket Knife (which has a flamethrower, a harpoon, and a mini dart gun) to try and get out of them. Instead of using any of the knifes or saws or can opener, or fifty-fifty the needle nose pliers to try and interruption the clip off the cuffs, he uses the harpoon. It doesn't piece of work. And when it finally does, the bolt from the harpoon hits an eject push, dropping him out of the plane at 35,000 feet. The fact that doing this almost kills him almost makes this Too Impaired to Alive, and 99 has enough frustration to insist on taking atomic number 82 one time they're on the ground.
  • That said, Agent 99 does make a mistake of her ain when she dives subsequently Max without taking the second parachute, which allows a tentatively-identified KAOS assassin to follow them out of the aeroplane.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: Played with when Max infiltrates the bakery.

  Siegfried: How do I know yous're not Command?
  Maxwell Smart: (haughtily) If I were Command, yous'd already be dead.
  Siegfried: If you were Control, you lot'd already be expressionless.
  Max: Well, neither of united states is dead, so I'm obviously not from CONTROL.
  (Beat)
  Shtarker: That actually makes sense.

• Improbable Aiming Skills: Every shot Max takes is a impale shot when information technology involves an bodily pistol or rifle equally opposed to a tranquilizer crossbow. Foreshadowed earlier with the paintball combat grade, where Max is able to shoot Larabee correct in his jewels.
• Ironic Echo: Max tells 99, "I am not completely incompetent without a gun" while they are walking to Smolensk. Later, when existence held up in Krstic'south place by one of the henchmen, Max is disarmed of his pistol, and says, "I'm not totally incompetent without a gun, you know."
• Jerkass Has a Point: Max and 99 are walking along a dirt road at sundown later on their fall from the plane, six miles exterior of Smolensk, at which point 99 decides to express her legitimate frustration over Max'southward incompetence:

  Maxwell Smart: Okay, non to keep abode on this, merely that was some osculation. How did you know that will work? Have you lot kissed other men who then plummeted to their deaths?
  Agent 99: Okay, okay! You know what, so far our entire "partnership" has consisted of me getting you out of trouble! Do yous know why?! It is because you continue leading!
  Maxwell Smart: Well—
  Agent 99: So here'south how we stop that: I lead now! I'yard the ane with field experience, and you know zero!
  Maxwell Smart: I beg to differ! (99 starts walking) I looked upwards your field agent test, and I scored—
  Agent 99: My what?!
  Maxwell Smart: Your field amanuensis exam! I scored eight points higher than you did! That is the difference between an A+ and an A-!
  Amanuensis 99: (simultaneously) This is not a classroom! This is existent! Y'all are really going to get yourself killed if you lot don't listen to me!
  Maxwell Smart: ....A-!
  (beat)
  Agent 99: Okay. Okay, you're faced with an assassin. What practice yous do?
  Maxwell Smart: I take out my gun (does so) and I would shoot— (99 grabs it from his mitt and she points information technology at his head)
  Agent 99: You don't have a gun.
  Maxwell Smart: I did until yous took it—
  Agent 99: "Bang!", you're dead!
  Maxwell Smart: No, I'one thousand not. (99 lowers it to his heart)
  Agent 99: "Bang!", you're dead!
  Maxwell Smart: Stop shooting me.
  Agent 99: You are dead! (starts pointing it to all over his upper body) Bang, bang, bang, blindside, bang, blindside blindside!
  Maxwell Smart: (equally she's maxim that) I don't similar information technology when y'all shoot me! Stop it! Cease shooting me! Y'all've already said I was (99 sticks Max's gun back into his pants, in the procedure making an almost sexual accelerate on him) Hey.
  Agent 99: (coldly and quietly) Throw out your manual. Out here there are no grades. At that place's only "dead" and "not dead".
  Maxwell Smart: You lot know, I am non completely incompetent without a gun. I am a master in the art of ­Choi Kwang-Do. [99 stops, glaring away from Max. He gets into a fighting stance, simply for her to slap him across the face] I was not fix!
  Agent 99: That's my signal.
  Maxwell Smart: You know what— (she slaps him again) Hey! What was that?!

• Wiggle Jock: Larabee and 91 take on the role of bullying "jock" agents to the "nerdy" analyst/tech support characters. They both receive comeuppances throughout the movie (Larabee's is to get a paper stapled to his head).
• Just Keep Driving:
  • The plane/automobile chase on the highway at the end. Angelinos are very used to seeing a guy dangling from a plane and hanging just three feet off the asphalt, flight between cars.
  • Then a kid looks out his machine window and sees him...

  Sean: [pointing out window] ''Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom!
  Female parent: Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean! You meet how annoying that is?

  What makes information technology better? For i affair, she's busy talking on her cell phone. Also, she manages to turn abroad at the exact moment that Max passes by her window, significant she didn't see a thing.

• Kiss of Lark: Agent 99 kisses Dalip to distract him when they and Max are all plummeting through the air. Max wold later use the same play a trick on on Agent 23.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Larabee and 91 get these repeatedly, and Siegfried gets one at the end while he's insulting Dalip subsequently realizing that the bomb never went off, even saying that killing his wife would be a favor to the world. He's and so tossed out of the car and into the river as they're driving over a bridge.
• Laser Hallway: Agent 99 has to navigate a laser web in Ladislas Krstic'south house. The lack of a Spy Catsuit in this example is more than than made upward for by the presence of a slinky silver dress with a squeamish high separate the side. And then Agent Smart navigates information technology likewise, though with a bit less dignity because the lasers also burn down, and he has a rat in his suit.
• Logical Fallacies: The commutation when Max offset encounters Siegfried. It's saved past Siegfried not really being fooled. Besides every bit the fact that it's a direct quote from the show. And the logic actually being right if both premises were right. Which neither is.

  Siegfried: How practise I know you're not Control?
  Max: If I were CONTROL, you'd already be dead.
  Siegfried: If you were CONTROL, you'd already be expressionless.
  Max: Well, neither of us is dead, so I'chiliad plainly not from CONTROL.
  (Beat)
  Shtarker: That actually makes sense.

• Meet Cute: Max is lamenting his failure to become a Control amanuensis to a dog in a pet shop window. Just by pure take a chance, as he'south backing away, Agent 99 plows right into him while jogging. They substitution a few words and appear to flirt, and then she continues on her jog.
• Modern Major General: Max, as he's the best analyst Command has but wants to be a field agent. When he gets promoted due to majority of the agents' identities nether compromise due to a mole, he's completely out of his depth, other than when he uses his annotator's skills and intel to mess with KAOS agents. In a contrast from the Boob tube series, nonetheless, Max is able to buckle down and be a decent field amanuensis. To his credit, Max's naive personality also makes him a decent human being, who shows compassion and kindness towards anyone from fat ladies ridiculed by anorexic harpies, to the massive KAOS agent who just needs the money to look after his wife.
• The Mole: The presence of one in CONTROL compromises the identities of all its agents salve Amanuensis 99. Afterward Max is accused of being the ane, but later convincing the Primary and Agent 99 that he's not the one, he gain to unwittingly uncover Amanuensis 23 as the existent mole.
• Musical Trigger: The final notes of the Ode to Joy are the signal for the electronic detonator.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The motion-picture show gives cursory glimpses at the one-time style cone-of-silence likewise as an updated version, Max's auto from the original series and of course, the Shoe Phone. The opening montage as well shows some of Max's notes, which include mention of The Craw The Claw. His fridge has a wanted ad for Mr. Large (Everett Horton) magneted to it.
  • The Running Gag of the Cone of Silence was that it never worked. The get-go thing it does in the motion picture? Information technology works... in the sense that everyone'southward in a cone of silence of their own, and they can't hear each other.

    Lloyd: Sad, Master, someone led me to believe the cone was ready.
    Bruce: For the record, I never actually used the word "gear up."

  • When Max is told about the suicide pill he asks "How exercise I get them to have it?" a directly quote from the series. Unlike the series here he's only making a joke.
  • Agent xiii and his improbable disguises.
  • A lot of the show'south myriad of Mad Lib Take hold of Phrases get to prove upwards. ^note Although Max's "That'southward the second biggest Ten I've always seen" does not.
  • The robotic spy fly appears and is once again swatted by an agent thinking it'southward an ordinary fly.
• Naked People Are Funny: Max continuing in forepart of the orchestra, with his donkey on full display.
• Neck Lift: During a fight with Dalip, The Animal lifts Agent 99 past the neck ane-handed.
• Nice Guy: Max once more. Likewise Amanuensis 23, who, despite being The Ace, is the merely agent who doesn't either at first dismiss Max or treat him similar dirt. Subverted when 23 is outed as The Mole and stops beingness anything resembling nice.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Information technology's never said what caused Agent 23's knife wound (which opens upward whenever his claret pressure rises).
  • We never go to see exactly what Max did to get to Los Angeles. Nosotros do know from a Cutaway Gag that he flew at least function of the way there in an fighter jet, and plainly he got pretty bad airsickness.
• The Nth Physician: 99's impressive cosmetic surgery. You might have idea this was leading to a moment showing that 99 used to be as fat and unattractive as Max — nope! Before, she was a gorgeous blonde, afterwards she's a gorgeous brunette.

  Amanuensis 99: I used to look similar my mother.

• Obfuscating Stupidity: At Krstic's party, Max is clandestine as a "retarded stable boy". To reinforce it, when 99 is telling this to Krstic, she instructs Max to go help himself to some punch, while drawing out every single syllable to emphasize his supposedly short attention bridge.
• Older Than They Expect: Agent 99 is the aforementioned age every bit Max. She had cosmetic surgery to modify her confront Besides existence a plot signal, it served as a practical reason to justify the pairing of Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, who are separated in age by 20 years.
• Omniglot: Max's old task requires him to listen in on conversations from worldwide sources in a dozen different languages.
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations: When Max speaks to the baker lady, he tries to drop hints that he'southward trying to locate the secret nuclear base. However, his choice of words leads her to call back that he's hitting on her. Max then comments, "I don't think we're on the same page. I am here considering Ladislas Krstic sent me."
• Ow, My Body Part!: "Sir, I believe y'all just shattered my coccyx!"

• The Peter Principle: Max proves himself capable as a field agent, but Da Master considered him more valuable as an annotator, trying non to evoke this trope. The events of the flick instead forcefulness Max into the field as the only ane qualified as a field agent and not compromised by the database theft of field agents.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: Weaponized twice in gild to plow the tide in an otherwise unwinnable battle.
• Dial-Clock Villain: Max notes that "Evil is not who these people are, it's what they do." This later comes in handy. One of the villains but continues to piece of work for the bad guy because he's his blood brother in law, while another one's married woman is being threatened by Siegfried.
• Punch! Dial! Punch! Uh Oh...: Dalip responds to about attacks on him (including a Groin Attack) with a dopey Evil Laugh.
• Punched Beyond the Room: After Siegfried calls Dalip'southward wife ugly, the camera cuts to the outside of the car, and Dalip punching him from the driver's seat then hard he'due south blown through the door (which is knocked off its hinges!) and goes flying over the causeway railing and into the water below.

  Shtarker: Wow! What expert hang time, huh!

• The Remake: Of Become Smart.
• Remake Cameo:
  • Bernie Kopell, who played Siegfried in the prove. Here, he's an Opel commuter who stops when Max flags him down, complaining to him that he could be hitting by a motorcar... at which indicate the commuter himself is rear-concluded by an SUV.

    Maxwell Smart: Well, that was ironic.

  • James Cann, here playing the President, played a swashbuckling villain in an episode of the Original Series.
• She-Fu: Though not technically combat, Agent 99 uses nimble backflips and other gymnastics moves to thread her way through a light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation spider web.
• She's Got Legs: Amanuensis 99 undoubtedly has a nice gear up of shapely legs, virtually notably seen during her laser spider web gymnastic routine at the political party.
• Shoe Telephone: A number of gadgets from the original prove are seen in the museum to a higher place CONTROL headquarters. And it introduces a number of new ones such as the Geiger counter watch. And Max gets to use the actual Shoe Phone.
• Shout-Out:
  • The scene where Max and the Chief crash into a swordfish sign, with the fish nearly spearing the Chief, is a nod to a similar scene in My Young man Americans. Both films were directed by Peter Segal.
  • 99 and the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation hallway to Entrapment.
  • The taunting and brawling in the Presidential War Room to Dr. Strangelove.
  • The outside of a plane flying in the air is shown. The airline'southward proper name is Yarmy Airlines...Don Adams's existent proper name was Donald Yarmy.
• Spy Drama: The film plays it somewhat straighter than the serial did. Also an example of how serious spy dramas have inverse. The original TV series parodied Tuxedo and Martini spy dramas like Goldfinger or The Man from U.N.C.L.East., whereas the movie is a cross of that and the slightly more than down-to-earthness of something similar Casino Royale (2006).
• Spy School: The training plan that Maxwell Smart goes through. Includes boot camp and a paintball firing gainsay course.
• Squirrels in My Pants: Maxwell ends upwardly having a sewer rat crawl down his shirt all the style to his pants in one scene. It doesn't pb to anything resembling dancing, just the scene in question does take place in a room full of deadly, peel-destroying lasers...
• Standard Female Take hold of Expanse: Twice justified in fights with Agent 99, as in both cases, the attacker is holding a gun on her.
• Steel Eardrums: Averted through an unusual method. In the paintball course, 23 fires a surprise shot at a target, his gun inches from Max's ear. In the next scene, every bit Max is talking to the chief, he still feels a ringing awareness in his ear.
• Super Toughness: Dalip'due south Establishing Character Moment is surviving falling out of a cruising aeroplane without a working parachute with no apparent ill effects.
• That Came Out Incorrect: When Max is sitting down with 99 later overhearing two henchmen talking about dynamite in the bath:

  Maxwell Smart: At that place was a guy in the bath who's actually hot.
  (beat; 99 looks at him, confused)
  Agent 99: OK. Well...
  Maxwell Smart: No, no, no, radioactive hot. Although, yes, he did accept a certain rugged quality that some find appealing.

• Those Two Guys: Larabee and 91 equally well as Max'southward friends Bruce and Lloyd, who get their own Spin-Off picture show.
• Toilet Humor: There's something to exist said for Max being able to turn his pee-stream on and off when eavesdropping on unsuspecting Russians.
• Tour Guide Gag: Played With — a bout guide is showing a group around the museum display of the Cold State of war era, defunct Command... which is live and well, and the entrance is correct beside the display.
• Ugly Slavic Women: Played with. One group of women at a fancy apparel party infiltrated by Max and 99 are your more typical Sensual Slavs (alpine, slim blondes), but come off every bit bitchy (i.eastward. ugly personality-wise), while Max does the tango with another one who is overweight. Subsequently, at the Moscow bakery serving as a front for KAOS, the female clerk, who is probably mid-50s and non very attractive, briefly gets the hots for Max.
• Undressing the Unconscious: While attempting to use a knockout dart on a guard then that they can infiltrate their target'southward mansion, Max accidentally sucks in the poisoned sprint, knocking himself out. When he wakes up, he finds that Agent 99 has changed his apparel for him, including his underwear.

  Max: Am I wearing boxers? Only then yous know, I prefer briefs. For their security, and peace of mind.

• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Only Agent 99 seems to evidence whatsoever reaction to all the noise Max makes in the lavatory when he's having trouble with the harpoon gun.
• Warrior Therapist: Endearingly enough, Max embodies this trope where he reaches out to the feelings of Dalip, empathizes with his troubled family life, hugs him and (possibly) turns him into a good guy.
• When Elders Attack: The war room conference. Gawd, just the dialogue.

  Chief: (takes his coat off) I've been waiting for this since Nixon!
  Vice-President: I got a new pacemaker, I can go all day!

• World of Snark: Characters good and bad make snarky comments throughout the picture.

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