There's a whiff of putrefied, petrified wackiness about this pointless remake of a knockabout 1979 comedy which originally featured Peter Falk as an undercover CIA man whose son is marrying the daughter of an uptight dentist, Alan Arkin; Falk no sooner meets him but genially drags the protesting Arkin into wildly dangerous situations. This time it's Michael Douglas ...

Get Smart (2 stars) Steve Carell , Anne Hathaway , Dwayne Johnson , Alan Arkin Directed by Peter Segal Rated PG-13 Opens Friday The 1960s spy-parody TV show Get Smart was, contrary to its title, often very silly, and certainly not the most sophisticated bit of satire ever to hit the air-waves. But it was at least more concerned with cracking jokes at ...