SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

wes-connors Zany research and development duo Nate Torrence (as Lloyd) and Masi Oka (as Bruce) head up a hilarious "Get Smart" movie off-shoot about the "KAOS" ensuing over an invisibility cloak. Not convinced? Well... Would you believe Warner Brothers spins-off a couple of funny lines and situations leftover from their almost simultaneously released "Get Smart" movie re-make? No? Okay... How about "Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control" was accidentally green-lighted as a TV series pilot for the now defunct WB during a writer's strike? So, when the strike was over, they didn't know where to put it. Not buying it? I suggest we file this one under the "Cone of Silence" …^…^… ** Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control (7/1/08) Gil Junger ~ Nate Torrence, Masi Oka, Jayma Mays, Larry Miller

Enchorde Recap: Bruce and Lloyd are the science geeks at CONTROL, the secret spy organization. Now their latest invention, the Optical Camouflage Device – a blanket that makes you invisible has gotten some attention. Mostly from the CIA where a couple of agents want to steal the credit from themselves and their organization. But a dictator from Maraguay thinks that being invisible is a nice treat too, and manages to steal the blanket. Now Bruce and Lloyd must go out on in the field, because all the other agents are exposed, and recover the blanket before anyone else does. Oh, and get some dates too.Comments: A rather silly and harmless (and short) comedy about two of the supporting characters from Get Smart. Not a masterwork of any kind, it still is good fun and perfect if you have one of those afternoons when you don't feel like doing anything and just need to be spoon-fed some entertainment.My extra credit goes to Jayma Mays that in some peculiar way manages to give her character some extra depth. There is something a little extra about Nina, the coroner that Bruce has a crush on. Mays shows some good comic talent with her total innocence and emphasized moods. She actually brings the entire movie up a notch.6/10

Robert W. First let me say that everyone should see Get Smart. Both the original series because it is a stone cold classic and the new remake with Steve Carell because it really is a terrific, fun action comedy with a great cast. Sadly somehow the film makers thought it would be a good idea to take the two worst supporting characters from the film and make some sort of promotional rip off film to whet your whistle for the movie but all it does is leave a sour taste and if anyone sees this before the Get Smart remake you won't want to even bother with Get Smart and that is a disappointment in itself. The idea of making this is not bad, it's just the execution of making it. I think it's a great idea to make a little sub movie for DVD that follows up or follows during the film with some cast cameos from the film. But unfortunately they took the two worst cast members from the series. When I did the review for Get Smart I didn't even discuss the two characters that play Bruce and Lloyd because thankfully they were hardly in it and I thought they were kind of boring and had no character arc to them and were just there for the sake of being there...extras almost. But apparently someone thought different and wasted their time making this.Masi Oka is no stranger to acting. He's been on Television and film for the better part of 10 years on various shows and films and most recently found fame as everyone's favorite hero with the ironic name Hiro Nakamura on NBC's Heroes. I've always thought he's done a great job on that show and now that I've seen him in something else I pray he sticks to his day job. Oka plays Bruce, a highly intelligent tech for Control who creates an invisible cloak that everyone wants including the CIA and KAOS. He has no depth to the character at all although his character is slightly better than his sidekick/co-star. I think maybe he might have been a little better had he had a better cast around him but still the film should never have focused on him. Nate Torrence...loved him in the small role on Studio 60 (sadly canceled long before it's time) absolute disaster in this role in this film. He plays Lloyd, Bruce's supposedly intellectual equal and partner but Lloyd comes across as an utter doofus and is simply there so they can make numerous fat jokes and have the ugly dude get the hot girl. Torrence and Oka have NO chemistry together and that is really what this film should be about. Jayma Mays is the almost one redeemable performance as the lovely and quiet Nina who smells of dead flesh (she's a coroner of sorts.) Her and Oka have a little chemistry, far more than Oka and Torrence certainly. I would have rather had her in the entire film than the two of them. Marika Dominczyk is also half decent as the sexy spy who steals the cloak. She would have been good in the actual Get Smart film as opposed to wasting her in this garbage. Larry Miller's dry, comedic talent is wasted and makes him look annoying and angry in the role as Bruce and Lloyd's supervisor. The only high point in the film was a brief cameo by 99 herself Anne Hathaway (which directly tied into a scene in the actual film,) a clever little easter egg for fans. I had also hoped after the disappointing briefness of Patrick Warburton's performance as Hymie in the film that he would play a bigger role in this...which would have completely made this worthwhile but the role is even smaller. Ironically and smart on his part he is not listed in the cast for the film.This isn't really a movie at all. It's an episode of some kind...an elongated promo that doesn't promo anything really. The 'movie' clocks in at just over an hour and will leave the bitter taste of stupidity in your mouth. And it's not even the kind of stupidity you can laugh at. It's the kind of stupidity that comes with a straight to video National Lampoon's movie. They handed over the directing rights to this sub story to Gil Junger who has done plenty of Television but really nothing of substance which is again another mistake on their part. Truth be told they slapped this together to try to cash in. I don't think they even tried. So unless you're a HUGE fan of Get Smart and even then I wouldn't bother. This one is a stone cold dud to say the least. Let's pray they're not thinking TV Series. 4/10

andrew-552 This spin-off from the new, "Get Smart," movie more closely resembles one of those episodes of shows like, "CSI," where they focus on the secondary, or even lesser,characters, with the producers harping on about how these are, "wonderful actors," with, "great characters," that need to be given the chance to, "shine," when in fact we all know it's because the real stars wanted a week off. There's a reason those actors and characters aren't the leads, and the same goes for this movie.Although, I think you'd be hard pressed calling it a, "movie," considering the run time is listed as 72 minutes when, in fact, the actual movie itself barely lasts an hour (another way it's like a TV episode) with the end credits being stretched out ever.... so.... slowly and various average outtakes and scenes not actually in the movie, but obviously intended to be, spliced into them. If the scenes are, "funny," enough to go in the end credits why the heck are't they IN the movie? Having said that, it's mildly amusing without ever being hilarious but hardly worthy of it's own release onto DVD. Unless you're a movie studio looking to suck every last dollar out of your new Summer Blockbuster. Stand up Warner Bros! The best thing in it is Larry Miller, who has the best lines in the film (which might be damning him with faint praise but at least they made me laugh). And I'm including the end credits in that. That way I can sell this review as, "Feature Length."