🎬 Movie Review: Get Smart (2024) – The Spy Game Just Got Stupider (and Better)
Starring Steve Carell, Dwayne Johnson, Anne Hathaway, John Cena
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
He’s back. Smarter than ever? Not quite. But definitely funnier.
Get Smart (2024) is a wildly entertaining return to the world of CONTROL, KAOS, exploding pens, and painfully awkward misunderstandings. It’s been 16 years since Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) accidentally saved the world, and in this riotous sequel, he’s older, none the wiser, and still determined to make espionage look like slapstick performance art.
Carell slips back into Max’s loafers with ease — bumbling through high-tech missions, confusing enemy codenames, and mistaking shampoo bottles for surveillance gear. Dwayne Johnson returns as the musclebound (and strangely emotional) Agent 23, now promoted and reluctantly paired with Max again after a security breach links back to an old KAOS mole… within CONTROL.
Anne Hathaway’s Agent 99 is now Director 99 — sharp, elegant, and visibly exhausted by Max’s ongoing incompetence. Their chemistry remains electric, blending flirtation, frustration, and fondness in all the right ways.
Newcomer John Cena joins the chaos as an ultra-serious rogue agent with a surprisingly delicate hobby (birdwatching, anyone?), and the jokes fly faster than the bullets — although Max still manages to accidentally fire most of them backwards.
From a hoverboard chase through a Berlin museum to a face-swap gone hilariously wrong during a gala mission, Get Smart (2024) delivers both spy thrills and gut-busting gags. It balances physical comedy with clever nods to modern surveillance culture, proving that even the dumbest spy can still outwit a smart villain… eventually.
Final Verdict:
Get Smart (2024) is everything you’d want in a sequel: bigger stunts, dumber plans, and Steve Carell punching himself in the face with a malfunctioning gadget. It’s joyful, ridiculous, and exactly the kind of comedy the spy genre secretly needs.
Missed it by that much? Nope — they nailed it.
