646f9e108c A spin-off of the Get Smart movie, centered on Bruce, a techie at CONTROL, and his nerdy analyst cohort, Lloyd. Both being national security agencies, the CIA and CONTROL have a sometimes friendly, sometimes not so friendly rivalry. CONTROL may now have the upper hand in the rivalry when Bruce and Lloyd, two of their nerdish inventors working in the gadgets laboratory, are close to perfecting their optical camouflage technology (OCT), aka an invisibility cloak. This is much to the chagrin of their counterparts at the CIA, Bob and Howard. The more personal rivalry between Bruce/Lloyd and Bob/Howard is fostered by their respective bosses, who happen to be competitive twin brothers. Bruce and Lloyd may be in deep trouble when their only prototype of the OCT goes missing. They initially believe that Bob and Howard may have it or worse that it has fallen into the hands on CONTROL&#39;s arch enemy, KAOS. But they discover that it was stolen by a beautiful woman named Isabella, working for her country, Maraguay. Bruce and Lloyd, with Bruce&#39;s girlfriend and fellow CONTROL technology geek Nina at their side, go on a mission to retrieve the OCT back from the Maraguayan government, who they learn has ties to KAOS. But they also learn that Bob and Howard are also trying to retrieve the OCT for the CIA&#39;s glory, and that Isabella is working on her own personal agenda. Warner Brothers&#39; &quot;Get Smart&#39;s Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control&quot; represents a shrewd marketing tie-in ploy with the studio&#39;s big-budget Steve Carell revival of the Don Adams classic sitcom to attract viewers. Bruce (Masi Oka of &quot;Heroes&quot;) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence of &quot;Marksman&quot;) serveCONTROL&#39;s equivalent of Q—the armor who furnishes gadgets to James Bond—in most of the 007 escapades. Bruce and Lloyd create gadgets for their field agents. Most of the time, these gadgets malfunctionexemplified by the &#39;cone of silence&#39; in &quot;Get Smart.&quot; Incidentally, Steve Carell doesn&#39;t appear in &quot;Out of Control,&quot; but Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway of &quot;Havoc&quot;) puts in a cameo and complains about these two geeks giving Max all the cool gadgets while she gets none.<br/><br/>This hare-brained 71 minute comedy with these two klutz-ups is sporadically funny, but never consistently hilarious. Bruce and Lloyd are sympathetic losers that we want to see win and they appear on the verge of their greatest triumph. They have developed what they call &#39;Optical Camouflage Technology&#39; or a cloak that makes the wearer invisible. Initially, the major problem is the short-life of the battery. The Underchief (Larry Miller of &quot;The Nutty Professor&quot;) is Bruce and Lloyd&#39;s boss. He is constantly breathing down their necks like a quasi-villain to goad them into perfecting the OCT. &quot;Failure to Launch&quot; scenarists Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember ramp up the suspense when somebody steals the invisibility cloak and our heroes run amok trying to retrieve it. A subplot about a man abducted by a ruthless dictator of a fictional nation, the Republic of Maraguay, a small angry nation sandwiched between Paraguay and Uruguary, complicates the issue. Meanwhile, although they aren&#39;t qualified for field work, Bruce and Lloyd tangle with the CIA and other henchmen to recover their greatest invention. One of the tiresome gags in this lame comedy is that everybody confuses Bruce for Lloyd and Lloyd for Bruce.<br/><br/>&quot;Get Smart&#39;s Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control&quot; is an outrageously priced DVD that contains few special features, and there is nothing special about the plot. Masi Oka and Nate Torrence are fun to watch, but they rarely blurt out sidesplitting dialogue and the plot is terminally predictable. Larry Miller gets the best line when he warns Lloyd about the repercussions should he fail to supply him with the OCT. &quot;There&#39;s an old Navy expression. If I go down, you go down on me.&quot; The malapropism here is perfect and Miller delivers it without a self-conscious wink! Presumably, when Warner Brothers made &quot;Get Smart,&quot; they must have filmed too much footage and had to decide what to do with the surfeit. The unfortunate thing about &quot;Get Smart&#39;s Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control&quot; is that a lot of people are going to buy this substandard movie with the mistaken assumption that it boasts additional footage of Steve Carell. Again, Steve Carell doesn&#39;t appear in this spin-off spoof. Perhaps the ultimate insult is the movie ticket that comes packaged in &quot;Get Smart&#39;s Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control.&quot; The ticket carries a value of only $7.00 making it useful only for a matinée, talk about cheap! Altogether, this item works on the level of an inferior National Lampoon video. 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.<br/><br/>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&#39;t feel like doing anything and just need to be spoon-fed some entertainment.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>6/10
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