History Film / GetSmart

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Max

-->'''Agent 99:''' You know, I never saw James Bond in rats or poop, let alone rats *and* poop. Oh look, there's a rat riding on a piece of poop.

** A fair word of warning: do not ''ever'' question or mock the Chief's credentials or CONTROL itself's credentials, or you should pray you don't get a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in front of your fellow cabinet members. Than again the Vice President is implied to a jerkass to the Chief anyway, and this just happens to be the time Chief finally had enough.

** In the TV series ''Series/GetSmart'' Max was a general-purpose bungling idiot who only succeeds by [[TheFool luck]] and Agent 99's competence. In the film he's genuinely a clever guy and a ''great'' analyst, just a klutz who isn't well suited to field work. This was apparently done to make a romantic relationship with 99 more believable as modern audience would not accept someone as buffoonish as the original Max being attractive to a woman as capable as 99.

** The Chief in the series was the OnlySaneMan who got quietly annoyed with Max's incompetence at worst. In the movie, he almost seems to have a HairTriggerTemper. And is very sarcastic character.

** A lot of the shows myriad of MadLibCatchPhrase get to show up. [[note]]Although Max's "That's the second biggest X I've ever seen" does not[[/note]]

%%* ShesGotLegs: Agent 99

** Hymie in the series was (after his first episode) as a pacifistic robot, who fought only when necessary. In the movie, he has a cameo appearance where he insults Larrabee and staples a paper to his forehead in retaliation for a bit of PokeThePoodle.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Sigfried treats [[TheBigGuy Dalip]] like DumbMuscle; Max gives him advice on how to salvage his flagging marriage. [[HeelFaceTurn Dalip becomes a]] DoubleAgent.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sigfried establishes himself as a much more serious villain with his first line. Instead of doing a bad impression of Shtarker, he says in a low sinister voice, "This is KAOS. We don't Ka-fricking-boom here." He also shoots a henchman who questions their need to torch the building they are looting.

* HeelFaceTurn: Dalip, TheBrute of CHAOS, ends up giving Max a tip on how to defuse the nuclear bomb Sigfried planted after Max offers him advice on how to fix his weakening marriage.

* PunchClockVillain: Max notes that "Evil is not who these people are, it's what they do." [[ChekhovsGun This later comes in handy]]. One of the villains only continues to work for the bad guy because ''he's his brother in law'', while another one's [[ForcedIntoEvil wife is being threatened by Seigfried]].

** A lot of the shows myriad of AdLibCatchPhrase get to show up. [[note]]Although Max's "That's the second biggest X I've ever seen" does not[[/note]]

A 2008 [[TheMovie Film adaptation]] of the '60s [[Series/GetSmart TV series of the same name]]. Starring Creator/SteveCarell as Maxwell Smart, Creator/AnneHathaway as 99, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] as fellow operative Agent 23, and Alan Arkin as the Chief.

* AdaptationalBadass: Max. Even Chief gets in on the action.

* {{Adorkable}}: Max

* BattleCouple: Max and 99.

* CatapultNightmare: "I'M FAAAT!!"

** Agent 23 is a paragon of what an agent should be, which is why Max admires him. And yet, he ''still'' walks straight into a support pole when Judy, the sexy secretary at the front desk, smiles and flirts with him.

* {{Fanservice}}: A literal ''second'' of Anne Hathaway in her underwear. Plus a couple [[PantyShot panty shots]] during the scene with the room with lasers.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Agent 99

* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: [[spoiler:Agent 23]].

* ShesGotLegs: Agent 99

* CoolOldGuy: The Chief. Pilots a plane to trail an escaping car and punches a Secret Service agent in the face who insulted his organization, not to mention his flying tackle to the vice president. Even the president is impressed.

* PunchClockVillain: Max notes that "Evil is not who these people are, it's what they do." [[ChekhovsGun This later comes in handy]]. One of the villains only continues to work for the bad guy because ''he's his brother in law''.

** A fair word of warning: do not ''ever'' question or mock the Chief's credentials or CONTROL itself's credentials, or you should pray you don't get a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in front of your fellow cabinet members. The Vice President doesn't know this.. Than again, they seemed to be ''already'' at odds with each other, this just being the last straw.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth and intelligent man, but comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience and being a little immature, is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker, which, considering his actor, we wouldn't expect anything else.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth and intelligent man, but comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience ''(and even then he still does fairly decent at times)'', is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker, which, considering his actor, we wouldn't expect anything else.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth, comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience ''(and even then he still does fairly decent at times)'', is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker, which, considering his actor, we wouldn't expect anything else.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth, comes off as slightly incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience ''(and even then he still does fairly decent at times)'', is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker due to being played Steve Carell.

** The Chief in the series was the OnlySaneMan who got quietly annoyed with Max's incompetence at worst. In the movie, he almost seems to have a HairTriggerTemper.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Max has trained his body to be impervious to knockout gas. Pity [[SubvertedTrope is the new stuff]].

** A fair word of warning: do not ''ever'' question or mock the Chief's credentials or CONTROL itself's credentials, or you should pray you don't get a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in front of your fellow cabinet members. The Vice President doesn't know this.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth, comes off as slightly incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience and even then he still does fairly decent at times, is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker due to being played Steve Carell.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth, comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience (but serprisingly capable in combat), is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker due to being played Steve Carell.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth, comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience (but serprisingly capable in combat), is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker.

** Max in the series was a CloudCuckooLander who was still (usually) competent enough at his job, a bit socially awkward, and occasionally busted out some snark. In the movie, this is pretty much all reversed - he's very down-to-earth, comes off as incompetent due to a lack of field agent experience, is a pretty smooth social operator outside of talking to 99, and is a definite DeadpanSnarker.

(''his wife whips out a cell phone and promptly [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments takes a picture]] of the car'')

** Then [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a kid looks out his car window and sees him...]]

* WarriorTherapist: Endearingly enough, Max embodies this trope in a simultaneous SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, {{SugarWiki/Funny|Moments}}, and {{SugarWiki/Heartwarming|Moments}} where he [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath reaches out to the feelings]] of [[TheBrute Dalip]], empathizes with his troubled family life, [[CoolDownHug hugs him]] and [[HeelFaceTurn (possibly) turns him into a good guy.]]

* NoOneIsIndispensable: Siegfried tells Dalip, "And don't you forget it: everybody here can be replaced. I even have backup for you! It's called a ''rhinoceros''."

A 2008 [[TheMovie Film adaptation]] of the '60s [[Series/GetSmart TV series of the same name]]. Starring Creator/SteveCarell as Max, Creator/AnneHathaway as 99, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] as fellow operative Agent 23, and Alan Arkin as the Chief.

-->'''Phone system:''' You have reached the United States Department of Homeland Security. For threats against the continental United States, press 1. For threats against Hawaii, press 2. For threats against Puerto Rico...

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Sigfreid treats [[TheBigGuy Dalip]] like DumbMuscle; Max gives him advice on how to salvage his flagging marriage. [[HeelFaceTurn Dalip becomes a]] DoubleAgent.

* BlackTieInfiltration: 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 CONTROL headquarters. The sequence also features a hilarious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wopDh8EMqI4 tango dance-off scene]] between 99 and Krstic, and Max and a quite overweight young lady.

* CarsWithoutTiresAreTrains: 23 takes 99 hostage and flees in a vehicle. After a chase, Max manages to rescue 99, but in the struggle, the car is set on fire and forced onto railroad tracks. Max kisses 23 to distract him, a trick learned from 99. He and 99 are thrown off the vehicle before it collides with a freight train, killing 23.

** When Max is sitting down with 99 after overhearing two henchmen talking in the bathroom:
--->'''Maxwell Smart:''' There was a guy in the bathroom who's really hot.\\
(''beat; 99 looks at him, confused'')\\
'''Agent 99:''' OK. Well...\\
'''Maxwell Smart:''' No, no, no, ''radioactive'' hot. Although, yes, he did have a certain rugged quality that some find appealing.

* IdiotBall: Max isn't going to be accused of being a genius anytime soon, but the airplane scene was such a lack of common sense that it deserves mention. After being arrested by 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 of plastic band cuffs. When Max tries to cut them off in the plane's bathroom, 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 even the needle nose pliers to try and break the clip off the cuffs, he uses the ''harpoon''. It doesn't work. And when it finally does, the bolt from the harpoon hits an eject button, dropping him out of the plane at 35,000 feet. The fact that doing this almost kills him almost makes this TooDumbToLive.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Max and 99 are walking along a dirt road at sundown (roughly around 7:30 PM local time) after their fall from the plane, six miles outside of Smolensk:

* LogicalFallacies: The following exchange (which can only be saved by RuleOfFunny). It's also saved by [[spoiler:Siegfried not actually being fooled]]. As well as the fact that it's a direct quote from the TV series, and the logic actually being correct IF both premises were correct, which neither is.

* GoodBadTranslation: The Latino American edition replaced most of Max's jokes with ones that made cultural references which this audience would get.