TV or not TV? That is the question.
"Get Smart" is based on the '60s sitcom, but it's a movie. "Get Smart: The Complete Series Gift Set," on the other hand, is the TV series – all 138 episodes on 25 discs. Both will be released Tuesday. "Get Smart," the movie, stars Steve Carell as Agent Maxwell Smart, probably the dumbest spy ever. Anne Hathaway plays Agent 99, a super-sleuth, especially compared with her partner. They step into the shoe phone and pumps of Don Adams and Barbara Feldon from the series.
Would you believe "Get Smart: The Complete Series Gift Set" is digitally restored? It is, and you shouldn't be sorry about that, chief.
Also scheduled for release – on Sunday, not Tuesday – is "Kung Fu Panda," the animated film that features the voices of Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman. Black plays Po, a lazy panda who dreams of kung-fu excellence, and Hoffman plays Shifu, a martial-arts master.
You might also look for:
"A Christmas Story (Ultimate Collector's Edition)," which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the film's release. The set comes in a collectible retro Christmas cookie tin and includes – in addition to the film – a cookbook with recipes inspired by the movie, photos and quotes from it ("You'll shoot your eye out") and five cookie cutters in shapes that suggest items in the movie (a leg lamp, Ralphie in his bunny suit, etc.).
"Barbie in A Christmas Carol"
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure"
"Planet of the Apes: 40th Anniversary Collection"
"Shrek the Halls"
"Star Wars Prequel Trilogy" ("The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith")
"The Wild Wild West: The Complete Series"
– Jim Carnes
