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 GET SMART

According to yahoo movies, “Maxwell Smart is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99. As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS’ master plan–and each other–they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried and his sidekick Shtarker are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart–armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm–must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day”.

Steve Carell, stars as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Other characters include Dwayne ” The Rock” Johnson as Agent 23 and Alan Arkin as The Chief. It is based on the 1960’s American comedy spy show of the same name created by Mel Brooks and Ben Henry.

 So far on yahoo movies the critics are giving the movie a C+ while the yahoo users are giving it a B. Rotten Tamatoes gives the movie a 50% positive rating out of 112 reviews.

 THE Love Guru

According to yahoo movies, “Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams’ owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup”.

The movie stars Mike Myers as the Guru. It co-stars Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.

On yahoo movies it has received a D+ from critics and a C- from yahoo users. It has received a 16% positive rating out of 98 reviews.

Apparently, some Hindus are not to happy about this movie because they feel it mocks them. Over 5,000 people signed an online petition to protest the release of the film.  I guess it did not work since it came out today.I can see their point of view.As far as I know Mike Myers is not Hindu. By Christianity being the dominant religion here it’s hard as it is for minority religions. I believe churches would protest if the Hindus got together and made a comedy about Jesus. I have not seen the movie so I can not really say much. I wish Mike Myers would have responded so that he could at least reaasure them that he was not trying to make fun.

In the Washington Post, Hindu Chaplan Rajan Zedi wrote,” In order to have more information, I urged Paramount Pictures to pre-screen the movie for us and they promised in March, “ Other religions also joined him. But, when it was time for the movie to be finished Paramount started ignoring them. This even got the other religion leaders to support them. They even “signed a appeal titled Clergy’s Appeal to Paramount Pictures”.

The person Mike Myers character is kind of based on does not have a problem with the movie. Check it out

I think Get Smart is going to win. Plus I really like Anne Hathaway so I have to see it her movie. The Love Guru just did not catch my attention.

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