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| (01.24) | Walk the Line |
| (01.05) | Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  |
| (01.02) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| (12.30) | Jarhead |
| (12.27) | Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
| (12.05) | randy: Polar Express, The |
| (12.02) | Geoff: Polar Express, The |
| (07.27) | Jen: Lady in the Water |
| (07.27) | Justin: Lady in the Water |
| (07.12) | Sarah: Da Vinci Code, The |
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| (05.21) | Mr Plow: Da Vinci Code, The |
| (05.11) | Sarah: United 93 |
| (05.11) | Bread: United 93 |
Hitch manages the unusual feet of taking the tired romantic comedy genre and making it truly funny and entertaining, adding a couple of original twists, and maintaining everything that makes the genre endearing to its fans.
Will Smith plays Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens, the self-described "date doctor" who can take almost any guy and transform him into a confident romantic able to woo the woman of his dreams. The movie follows two intertwining plotlines. The first involves Hitch's toughest client to date: Albert (Kevin James), a clumsy and slightly overweight businessman lackey who's head-over-heels in love with wealthy Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), owner and director of the company he works for, yet who barely even knows he exists. The second involves Hitch's own love life, as he unwittingly falls in love Sara (Eva Mendes), a tabloid reporter trailing Allegra Cole, and also investigating the 'mystery' of the existence of the rumoured "date doctor".
It's not an overly deep story, but there are enough quirks and connections to make it all entertaining. What I found most appealing, however, was how sweet and sincere the two developing relationship stories are (especially the superficially- and economically-mismatched Albert and Allegra). Also fairly original was an interesting switch in the usual 'gender-role' of romantic comedies. Most 'rom-coms' derive their conflict from misunderstandings and misinterpreted intentions. The cliche is that these things usually the fault of the guys in the film, and their goal before the film ends is to patch things up with their respective ladies. In Hitch, the ladies are the guilty parties, and while the guys aren't necessarily completely innocent, they're the ones who get the short ends of the sticks.
When it was over, I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed Hitch. Will Smith is a funny guy, and this is a great kind of movie to take advantage of his style of humour. I freely admit, with just a small amount of embarrassment, that this is one romantic comedy that really worked for me.
I enjoyed this on a kind of "embarrassed" level too. The best term I can think of to describe this movie would be "cute", simply because it was fairly predictable and everyone more or less ends up happy. The scenarios and jokes within were pretty good and Will Smith fit the role really well (much better than he does recording another album. Crikey.) But here's a question: how come it's always the overweight/ugly/poor guy getting the babe and never the other way around?
Pete, that's because, as everyone else knows, behind every overweight/ugly/poor girl in movies is a stunningly beautiful babe. All you have to do is get her to take off her glasses and let her hair down.
Of course! How could I have forgotten that.
You've got it in one. Couldn't have put it bteter.
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