I suppose that you could argue that when it comes to the summer blockbusters this year, it’s been about as exciting as listening an accountant talking about the colour grey. Can you name more than 3 films you’ve truly been excited about without being drugged by your supposed best friend and then dragged along so they don’t feel lonely?

So far, we’ve had the knight in dark clothing wooing us all with his magic abilities to talk funny and drive big things really fast, all in the vain attempt to keep us all safe from the dead guy. But aside from that, so far the only other film that even attracted my attention and possibly some other’s as well, was the load of Hancock with big Willy. And we all know how well that turned out don’t we?

So I guess when it came to the new remake of a TV series, Get Smart with Steve Carrot, the guy who actually did a really good film called the 4 year old virgin, which after complaints from parents was turned into the 40 year old virgin, the expectations were at an all time low.

It had won out for viewing against the Mummy goes to Iceland, in which the cast appear simply to try and keep their film careers going, and the other film which you may have had shoved down your throats with bizarre adverts: you don’t get mess all over Zorro with everyone’s favourite shouty man, Adam Sandal.

So after all that, the film just had to show up on the big screen and it was already better than you thought. So with that in mind, as the mind had ceased all other brain function, is it actually worth spending time in the dark to see?

Steve Carrot plays Max Smart, a bloke who’s handy with doing brainy things but desires to be a secret agent for the good guys, who for the purpose of this spy takeoff, is called CONTROL (ALT-DELETE) and all the people take the mick out him as he’s a nerd etc, blah blah blah. The stone plays an agent and so does the woman/bit of poon designed to want to do naughty with Max: Anne Hadawaywithwords.

Bad guys want money, they blow things up, and all the while you are wondering when the ride comes to a stop to allow you clear some of the drool that would have congealed around your mouth.

But fear not, for once this film did do exactly what it said on the tin. There were some funny moments in the film, such as Bill Murray getting upset about no-one wanting to visit him in his hollowed tree.

The gadgets were plentiful if only a bit of a waste of time when trying to break out of handcuffs, and of course the revelation that bad guys are human beings too was something that only Austin Powers talked about before. You will also find yourself wishing for a boss who just wants to beat the s**t out of anyone who disagrees, doesn’t anyone else think that this would actually be rather welcome in the real world?

Steve Carrot just had to repeat his previous roles and he did so with ease, so you couldn’t really fault him on that, except for perhaps, he’s done that all before, where’s the new stuff? OK, let’s through in the fact that for once he wasn’t playing someone who was completely useless, just didn’t know what to really do sometimes.

Strange as it sounds, this is new territory for American comedy, though short lived. We still have some of the good old staples designed to get the ultra cheap laughs, and the sh**y dialogue that people wouldn’t even find smeared on their toilet paper. So much of it, you will simply groan at.

The story was more ropey than a 10 year old tin of Spam, and the twist would you going “Oh. Carry on then.” But considering the fact that you expect the film to be utter rubbish all the way, you are surprised on occasion. Maybe. Ish….

The Stone or Rock or boulder, whatever his name was, is the same fella as always, delivered straight down the middle as the hard man who was what everyone wanted to be and all the ladies wanted to do naughty with, but the hidden gems came from the classic “geeks” coming up with new technology that fails miserably and then pretending to the cameras for a certain situation only to avoid getting fired if it all went tits up. Not bad at all fellas.

So let’s deal with one other issue which actually came into play while the eyes were glued to the screen with silly putty.

Anne Hadawaywithwords, despite the fact she causes my spider senses to tingle, had a lot to prove in my books for the simple reason that my opinion of her was pretty much destroyed by the film “The Devil wears Prada”.

This human rights violation of a book turned film, was basically one in which the fashion world is shown up as being a rather big load of bollocks and you hated every person in the film, hoping perhaps that a big fire would consume them all.

In this cinematic Ford Fiesta however, she looked extremely nice, as any bond type sexy lady should, and at one point, I swear she was actually convincing as an actress. High praise indeed considering she was swimming round the toilet bowl of opinion beforehand, with my hand ready placed over the flush.

Get Smart, as it stands, was an enjoyable experience, one where you don’t have care what’s really happening and one were you don’t feel cheated out of your money. Something other films out there at the moment are failing to achieve.