Warner Premiere describes “Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control” as “an industry first, offering consumers and fans of the theatrical release of ‘Get Smart’ the opportunity to enjoy parallel content, an original side story featuring characters from the film, just days after the film’s theatrical release,” but let’s call a spade a spade: even with a token scene or two to indicate that it’s taking place simultaneous to the real film, it’s still just another glorified straight-to-video sequel. Bruce (Masi Oka, “Heroes”) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence, “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”), two of CONTROL’s tech guys, find themselves on assignment to retrieve a missing piece of camouflage technology, getting into lots of wacky and zany misadventures along the way. “Heroes” fans will be psyched to see Jayma Mays playing Bruce’s love interest (Hiro and Charlie, together again!), Larry Miller gets to play identical twins (one of them is evil, naturally), and there are entertaining cameos by a couple of characters from “Get Smart” (Terry Crews as Agent 91, Patrick Warburton as Hymie), but while Oka and Torrence are both funny guys, the level of humor rarely rises about slapstick shenanigans and a running gag about how nobody can remember which one is Bruce and which one is Lloyd. Granted, it was a clever, cost-saving maneuver to film “Bruce and Lloyd” simultaneous to ‘Get Smart,’ utilizing many of the same sets, but no one’s going to mistake this for anything that’d ever be released theatrically.
