Is ‘Get Smart’ A Smart Movie Choice?

If I wasn’t spending my entire day blogging for charity, I would be at a movie theater, or on my way to one, right about now to see Steve Carell in Get Smart. Since I’m stuck in front of my computer, though, I’ve had the chance to dawdle around at Metacritic to learn what the professional reviewers think, not that I usually care.

Surprisingly — or perhaps not if you think about it — they don’t seem generally enthusiastic about the big-screen adaptation. The movie’s average score among critics is currently an unimpressive 53, although users have given it a 7/10 thus far. That rating is based on just six votes, however.

I don’t get it; the trailers like the one below make the film seem a sure winner, especially as opposed to, say, Mike Myers’ The Love Guru, which just looks silly, okay, incredibly stupid to me (it has a metacritic pro-critic score of 23 and a user rating of 4.2, so it looks like I called it).

Maybe I’ll just wait until Get Smart comes out on DVD and pass over The Love Guru all together.