Official Synopsis:
Max is back in control…and loving it! Three-time Emmy-Award-winner Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprise their roles as Maxwell Smart and Agent 99, but this time they have a little help from their son and newly-minted spy, Zach (Andy Dick), and his brilliant, sexy partner Agent 66 (Elaine Hendrix), Max is now the Chief of CONTROL and 99 is now a Congresswoman in charge of CONTROL’s budget.  Together, they must struggle to keep archival KAOS from gaining world domination.
  
Our Take:
With a series run of only seven episodes, it’s easy to see how I completely missed this show when it first aired on FOX back in 1995.  And frankly, I’m glad I did.  The original Get Smart was a fun parody of spy films, but unfortunately, the remake is ruined by a heavy dose of clear nostalgia about the original series and, quite simply, Andy Dick.  Andy Dick was minted from that 90’s MTV mold of annoying, whiny, man-baby style of comedic actor best exemplified by him and Pauley Shore.  In fact, if either of those actors (and I use the term lightly) names’ appear on a DVD box cover, it is generally an automatic pass for me.  In Get Smart (1995), Dick is supposedly the son of Maxwell Smart and Agent 99, but does not seem to possess any qualities similar to either of them and is instead a broad, whiny, annoying kid.  This is probably why Don Adams and Barbara Feldon are featured primarily on the DVD cover art and Andy Dick is banished to a little bubble in the top right corner.  Now, if only the show’s screen time-shared this original cast-to-new cast ratio; but the series is focused primarily on Andy Dick and his partner, Elaine Hendrix.  I think FOX executive are under the notion that they can put an attractive blonde woman in any series and it will make everything better.  Sometimes it works for them, (Married with Children and V.I.P. come to mind) and other times it fails miserably, such as here and the short-lived series Stacked (which actually lasted a whole season longer than Get Smart). 

There are no special features contained on this one-disc release pertinent to the actual show.  However, Sony does package in one episode from both NewsRadio (because we all need more Andy Dick in our lives) and T.J. Hooker.  Get Smart (1995): The Complete Series is for only the hardest of hardcore Get Smart fans that will enjoy seeing Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprise their classic roles enough to ignore the other 90% of the time when Andy “No Talent” Dick is on screen.  Casual viewers are best served to get smart and let this sub-par show pass them by just like viewers did in 1995.

Overall Picture:
Movie: D
DVD: C+

- Matthew Orlando
Staff Writer