Chief (Alan Arkin) promotes his eager agent Maxwell Smart and is partnered with the very attractive Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) although he had always dreamt to work with superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart has to nullify the plans of KAOS head Siegfried (Terence Stamp) who is said to be behind the attack on U.S. spy agency Control thus compromising the identities of various agents.

Armed with low experience, no time, and a couple of spy-tech gadgets, Smart has to complete the task with the same enthusiasm with which he is starting. Get Smart fails to live up to the expectations which it had created although it has some highly experienced people behind it.