Nah, but the big screen version of Get Smart is pretty damn funny and, more importantly, manages to update the camp classic without pissing all over what made the TV show so much damn fun. And, hey …considering that the original creators and star couldn’t manage to successfully bring the franchise to the big screen themselves – 1980’s big screen foray The Nude Bomb is pretty wretched – that’s got to count for something.

Now, if you don’t know what this is about already then you must have been living under a rock somewhere for the past twenty or thirty years and I suggest you wriggle back under it because I’m not about to recap a load of common knowledge. But here’s what I will say: though I haven’t watched the original show for ages now there were a few formative years of my life wherein it was absolutely compulsory viewing, an after school staple. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every episode at least a couple of times so, yeah, I’m a fan though not a compulsive one. And while this isn’t the knock out some may have hoped for it’s certainly no Pink Panther travesty, either.

Other than a handful of stellar lines the writing is really only a shade above average. Same thing with the direction: not embarrassing but nothing really stands out on that front and it could probably stand to be trimmed down a bit with a subplot or two tightened up and clarified. This one’s all about the cast, kids, and it’s got a great one. Steve Carrell is probably the only man who could step into these shoes and he manages to retain the key tics that Adams brought to the role while also adding his own spin. But everyone expected Carrell to be at least okay, I mean the guy could read the phone book and make it funny.

The surprise perk is the support cast, which has been largely neglected in the marketing. Anne Hathaway is one of the better comic actors of her generation, Alan Arkin is his normal dryly hysterical himself, Dwayne Johnson is one incredibly charismatic man in everything he does and really needs to stop slumming it in mainstream pap and indulge his quirkier urges more often, Masi Oka (you know him from Heroes) makes for a quality side man, and Terence Stamp is a perfect choice as the lead villain.

So there you have it, a sure recipe for box office success. Take a known property, don’t fuck it up, and include just enough high points to give people something to talk about on their way out of the theatre. And that’s Get Smart. Fluff but amusing fluff.