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Show Mdnday • June 30, 2008 # I M O V I E R E V I E W S Luke Hickman j Life writer • Get Smart # # Monday, June 30, 2008 Events will take place in and around the Brent Brown B allpark and new library m f UVU will kickoff university status June 30 with a huge celebration for the community, including a concert with country stars Josh Gracin, Collin Raye and Joe Nichols, fireworks! a free family fun fest and a Library Showcase, giving people a sneak peak at Utah Valley University's library before it officials opens July 1. 1-1 ;30 ,m, - Fire-knif© and Tahitian Dancers 2-2;30 ,m, - Amanda Dickson .m, - UVU Ballroom Dance Team p,m, - Farley Family Reunion 1:30-2 p.m. -Karate 2-2:30 p.m. - Cheerleading 2:30-3 p.m. - Tiny Tots Dancers 2:30-3 p.m. - Losee Band Warner Bros, Hathaway and Carell try to keep alive Get Smart. Not as intelligent as the original When I was a child growing up in California, every morning, while eating a bowl or two of Cookie Crisp, my brothers and I had a great routine: first we'd watch The Price Is Right, then a rerun of Get Smart. Nowadays, most college age students don't know Agent Maxwell Smart or the fictional secret government agency Control. However, one thing they are familiar with is Steve Carell. Get Smart is not a Get Smart movie. And while it does include many running Get Smart lines and gags, it is a Steve Carell movie. Audiences unfamiliar with the original television series will be entertained nonetheless. But those who adored the classic will find it lacking in comparison. In Get Smart, Carell plays the intelligent, not-sosmooth Agent 86, Maxwell Smart. After Control headquarters are broken into, Smart and Agent 99 (played by the gorgeous Anne Hathaway) are sent undercover deep into the land of their nemesis organization, KAOS. The plot of Get Smart doesnit make much sense. The story somehow takes you from Control's break-in to Europe looking for a bad guy, then to Moscow looking for a nuke factory, then back to the states to foil a terrorist attack. Carell fans, get ready to be purely entertained. Get Smart fans, think twice. It's not what you've been waiting for. The Love Guru Authors 2-2:30 p.m. 3-3:30 p.m. 4-4:30 p.m. 4:30-5 p.m. Corinne Huphrey Kim Justensen Ginger Churchhill Patti Sherlock Tlmberlake confronts The Love Guru Myers is back and unapologetic i-classes & interactive demonstrations 1-3 p.m. - Stand Up Comedy with Jenni Lou Oakes Baby Sign Language with Sarah Asay Guitar with Rog^r Archibald Whimsical Sculpture with Jean Clay 3-5 p.m. - Feed Your Brain • * Gardening with Vanessa Richins y Photography with Brad Sharp Drawing with Lisa Gardner Watercolor Painting with Randy Blackburn 4-5 p.m. - Belly Dancing # Paramount Pictures 7 p.m. - Five years after appearing on the big screen (not including voice work), Mike Myers is back and better than ever as Guru Pitka an American orphan raised to become a world-famous guru. As an adult, Pitka is only the number two guru, next to his former classmate, real-life guru Deepak Chopra. In order to out-do Chopra, Pitka decides he needs to get on the Oprah Winfrey show, and the only way to get on Oprah is to cure a train-wreck celebrity marriage. The costars of The Love Guru add to the "big brother" charm that Myers possesses. The list includes Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, Ben Kingsley, Stephen Col- bert, Romany Malco, Verne Troyer, Jim Gaffigan and many great cameos. If you do not like Myers' style of humor (a la Austin Powers and Wayne's World), then you'll probably hate The Love Guru. The laughs in The Ijove Guru come from Myers' usual tap of comedy - plays on words, acronyms, visual and verbal innuendo and, of course, midget jokes. The same types of jokes are used relentlessly so many times throughout the movie that you think you'd get tired of them, but because of how funny they really are, you don't. If you're a Myers fan, then do not miss The Love Guru — easily one of the funniest movies of the year. See REVIEWS* B3 Concert in the Ballpark featuring Johnny B as the emcee, performances by UVU's Got Talent contestants and country stars Josh Gracin, Collin Raye and Joe Nichols 10:30 p.m. - Fireworks I 10:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.Dance on the tennis courts just north of the Ballpark LOSEE Jewelers Only in COTTONTRBE SQUARE • (£01) 373-1000 wvm,toMtjaw«fara.mt •ft Bniuwmr- 35 |