Box Office Preview
Published: June 19, 2008
Updated: December 11, 2008
It'll be dueling comedies opening this weekend in movie theaters.
Steve Carell and Mike Myers square off with “Get Smart” versus “The Love Guru."
Steve Carell gets out of the office to moonlight as super spy Maxwell Smart in the comedy "Get Smart".
This reworking of the 60's sitcom finds Smart as an analyst for the U.S. Spy agency known as Control.
He's pressed into field duty, alongside super Agent 99, played by Anne Hathaway.
Together, they've got to wreck a plan for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as Kaos.
"Get Smart" is rated pg-13.
Mike Myers returns with his first live action film in five years with "The Love Guru".
He plays, Pitka, an American orphaned on the steps of an Indian temple, who's raised by Gurus.
Eventually, Pitka returns to the U.S. An enlightened soul, ready to take the world of self help and spirituality by storm.
That includes healing a hockey player's troubled marriage to ensure his team's quest for the Stanley Cup.
"The Love Guru" is rated pg-13.





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