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Steve Carell’s “Get Smart” isn’t the first film to be based on the Sixties TV classic; that dubious honor goes to the much-maligned “The Nude Bomb,” with Don Adams reprising his role as bumbling Agent 86 Maxwell Smart. Universal has rescued the comedy from obscurity, and it’s now available on DVD.
“Bomb” doesn’t look or feel like “Smart.” Gone is the iconic theme song, replaced with a swingin’ disco tune. The industrial look of the series is refurbished with horrid Seventies d
This article appears in Jul 23-29, 2008.