Television supplied it's fair share of super agents, but the one who may've left the deepest impression was Maxwell Smart. Get Smart was a sitcom, but one based around the exploits of the inept espionage agency CONTROL. A big screen update of the franchise hit theaters a few years ago, but it wasn't the first Smart feature film. Actually, one was planned when the show was still on (I believe during the second season). This didn't pan out and the script was re-worked into the three-part episode "A Man Called Smart." Come 1980 and Smart finally hit the big screen in THE NUDE BOMB (thus titled because Kaos had perfected an explosive that would destroy all fabric). Don Adams plays Max as if the series had never stopped, and the film captures perfectly the zany humor of the show. Weirdly, however, Max now works for an organization called THE PITTS, and no mention is ever made of 99. Otherwise, everything is as it should be. Fun picture mixes 60's and 80's aesthetics in complete recall of the spy craze that created the franchise to start with. Rapid fire gags like you remember from the show, so the plot really doesn't matter!
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