Being a fan of the "Get Smart" TV show since I was a teen, I actively sought out this movie at the rental store. I was, needless to say, disappointed.

The plot revolves around a destructive weapon that would destroy all clothing, hence the title of the movie "The Nude Bomb." Now, I'm OK with an absurd plot, because it's supposed to be parody. The "Get Smart" TV series did a great job of poking fun at the James Bond mystique, long before Austin Powers.

There are several strikes against this movie. First, and most importantly, Barbara Feldon, the actress who played Agent 99 in the TV series is nowhere to be found. A huge part of the appeal of "Get Smart" was the chemistry between 86 and 99. None here.

Second, the movie came out ten full years after the TV show ended. What may have been funny in 1970 was not so much in 1980.

I expect more from Mel Brooks. Especially since this came out in the same year as "History of the World, Part 1," another Mel Brooks film For a better Maxwell Smart/Mel Brooks fix, go to the old series, see "History of the World Part I" or check out Inspector Gadget.

The temptation is too great to use at to describe the movie and ranked as one. Fortunately, there are enough laughs scattered throughout this mediocre film version of the famous 1960's spy sitcom to rank it as simply mediocre. Of course, the major complaint will be the lack of featured actors from the original sitcom, most notably Ed Platt and Barbara Feldon. the iconic music theme isn't even heard in the opening, filled instead with a James bond-like song that just doesn't cut it.

The story surrounds Maxwell Smart's attempt to unmask a spy ring which creates a weapon of all of a sudden making people completely naked, with the intention of stopping Wars because how could you tell what side other people fighting were on. similar comedy was done just several years before and much better with "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and this copies it by having scenes in the United Nations building. Smart gets himself involved in more than several bizarre Capers, having a Chase sequence that goes through the Universal Studios (obviously an advertisement) then barely wrapping up that sequence, ends up at the avalanche country home of the still gorgeous Rhonda Fleming which then dissolves into another action sequence.

There had already been plenty of James Bond spoofs and they were certainly much better than this one. Adams is still successful and portraying the character's monotone cynicism, but other than a few opportunities to really be funny, he is basically just a shell of the original character thanks to your original missing co-stars with whom he had terrific chemistry. Putting voluptuous Sylvia Kristel in the female lead does nothing to advance the film's story other than for a bit of eroticism, but the presence of some popular character actors of the time does up my rating. Still, it's insignificant as anything other then a standard popcorn movie that was pretty much forgotten as soon as the credits were over.