HeroesMaxi-padMaxine 1 star out of 4 111 minutes/Rated PG-13 Kyle Smith review of “Get Smart” Get Smart hits so many wrong comedic notes it’s as if it’s playing the piano in boxing gloves. A few minutes into the movie, when (a version of) that briskly sinister title theme kicks in and Maxwell Smart heads for the sliding doors you’ll be happily ensconced, thinking: why mess with the classics? But shredding a classic is exactly what the filmmakers set about doing. The latest big-screen adaptation of the 1960s TV spy comedy, originally conceived as a mashup of James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, completely misunderstands Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), who in the original was arrogant but childlike, incompetent but unerring. He would say something utterly absurd with...
