Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Hitch (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Funny, refreshing and oh so much fun, exactly what I've been waiting for...
Summary: 5 Stars
While `Hitch' may not be the most original romantic comedy to hit the big screen it's one of the most enjoyable. Will Smith is always entertaining and effortlessly captivating, but this time, with the pairing of the breathtaking beauty known as Eva Mendes and the hilarious Kevin James, Smith is brought to the top of his game. The script is sweet and refreshing, the dialog is smart and funny and the acting is top notch. Eva Mendes is not only beautiful but charming and funny. She keeps proving with each role no matter how thankless that she is more than a pretty face. This role is not thankless, thankfully, but just the same she's a star. The real standout though is Kevin James who outdoes himself. I've always loved James' standup and his show `The King of Queens' but here he really blows me away with his natural charm and humor.
Smith plays Alex `Hitch' Hitchens, a date doctor as it were, who helps coach men into successful relationships. His latest project is Albert, an overweight accountant who has fallen for the rich and beautiful Allegra Cole, a woman many may consider out of his league. With Hitch's help Albert begins to woo Allegra and a mutual attraction between the two is formed. In the meantime Hitch himself finds he's been struck by cupids arrow, falling for columnist Sara Meles, and soon we discover that Hitch is about as helpless as the men he coaches. Between the two couples hilarity ensues and the audience is never left bored or wanting.
As may well be expected events line themselves up to expose Hitch and his clientele and threaten to end both sets of blossoming relationships. All is good though and the ride is a fun and entertaining one. The chemistry between the entire cast is fantastic. James feeds Albert enough charm and tenderheartedness that the audience falls in love with him alongside Allegra and Mendes plays Sara with enough sass and smarts that we can easily understand why Hitch is so absorbed in her. Smith may be the star but with a cast this impressive he gladly shares the spotlight and the praise with his co-stars. It's fun and breezy entertainment suitable for the entire family and will go down as one of my favorite romantic comedies of late.
Movie Review: I almost didn't rent this!
Summary: 5 Stars
I looked at the cover and was not so impressed, but hey, it was Will Smith, so it would be worth a few laughs. It has been a hard week and my wife and I needed something light.
Wow! We just got done watching this movie and I laughed more than I have laughed at a movie in a while! It was funny. It was romantic!
Does it get predictable at parts? Yes. Does it cross into the "cute" realm a couple of times? Yes. It is not perfect, but it is a very good movie.
Will Smith does an awesome job in the character. Not many people can play the nerd-gone-player, but he pulls it off perfectly. Eva Mendes does an awesome job as the love interest playing a character with just enough complication to make you buy in. Kevin James is priceless and almost steals the show from Will Smith! He is the ultimate underdog that you can't help but to cheer for! Amber Valleta did a good job but she looks just enough like Cameron Diaz that you almost have Something About Mary flashbacks at some of the funny parts, but I mean that as a compliment. Julie Ann Emery played the female underdog that reminded me of "that single friend" that most young wives seem to have when they get married. We all knew someone like her character who just needed a chance with that one someone who was out there somewhere.
All in all, this movie is not meant to be anything other than a good laugh with just enough romantic twist to make you want to snuggle a little tighter between the laughs. If you are looking for that cute date movie, be it your third date or a date night at home while the kids are staying over with the grandparents, this is a perfect movie. You walk away holding hands with smiles on your faces.
Oh, and you guys on the third date ... rent this movie, sit close, play it cool, and only lean 90% when the movie is over. Don't know what I mean? Watch the movie ... you'll see!
Movie Review: Refreshing and funny!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has style and though the plot is predictable, the characters are engaging and believable. Will Smith is ultra-smooth as Alex Hitchens, a "date doctor" who mentors nerdy-type men into mastering their first 3 dates with the women of their dreams. He is coaching Al Breneman, a clumsy, kind, and completely desperate accountant who has fallen in love with New York's number one socialite, Allegra Cole.
Honestly, Kevin James is fabulous in this movie as Al. His relationship with Allegra is occassionally more engaging than even the feature romance between Hitch and Sara. Most of the funny parts in the movie belong to Al as whenever Hitch and Al are together, Hitch has to play the "straight-man". It's only when Hitch is around Sara (played by Eva Mendez) that he looses his cool.
The dialogue is well executed. There is a great scene when Hitch first meets Sara in a bar after Sara has dismissed a guy who tries to pick her up. Instantly, Hitch realizes that he must step up his game and approach Sara from an entirely different angle. Because the dialogue is so witty and fresh, the movie comes off easily.
This is not a hard movie to watch by any means. Instead of watching cookie cutter characters which are sometimes common in romantic comedies, we get real people who have different perspectives on love and relationships. While they ultimately must serve the overlying function of the romance, we never get the impression that Hitch, Sara, Al, and Allegra are acting the way that they are in order to get to the end of the movie.
All in all, this was funny, original, and great to watch. It's a good movie to add to your collection because you won't get bored watching it a second time.
Movie Review: The "Date Doctor's" Successes with Single Men, and Then the "Malpractice"
Summary: 5 Stars
In this comedy, Hitch, the "date doctor", helps discouraged single men connect with women. He doesn't just advise them--he hangs around and monitors their performance. He begins by saying that women don't really mean it when they say that they are just into their careers, etc. He coaches men according to the principle that most communication is through body language. For instance, he tells men that, when a woman wants no kiss at the end of the date, she just takes out her keys and opens the door. But when she does want a goodnight kiss, she fiddles around with her keys. That is the signal for men to watch for.
The "date doctor' succeeds with even seemingly-impossible cases. Albert, a taciturn, nerdy, heavyset, completely-bumbling fellow, gets dates with no less than Allegra, a popular beauty queen. Spectators can't believe it. In time, this makes it into the tabloids, provoking such a furious response in Albert that he trashes the store carrying the tabloids and gets himself arrested.
Hitch's own girlfriend is Sara, who is highly cynical of men in general. She reacts with contempt when she learns of the very existence of a "date doctor", and then is furious with Hitch when she learns that he is in fact the one. She even throws things at him. Sara and the other women feel manipulated at the thought of their men's actions having been coached come-ons, not genuine romantic expressions.
So Hitch's world seems to fall apart. The heartaches are unbearable. Can Hitch win back Sara? Will Albert get Allegra back? At the end of the movie, Hitch makes a statement that is very ironic in view of what he had been saying all along about men, dating, and women.
Movie Review: The love as the devil, is in the details!
Summary: 5 Stars
The famous Uruguayan poet August Benedetti, wrote sometime a poem named: "Tactic and strategy" in which he stated: "My tactic is to want you ; my strategy is to love you".
And that is, precisely what it happens in this clever comedy about the role of hitch; he is a love advisor but you must remind Goethe' s famous statement in Faust: "Grey my friend is all theory and green the golden tree of the life."
Hitch's mission is to support and essential information about the women's psychology, what they really want, wish and expect, the use of the body language, the importance of a look, and the adequate employment of a phrase in the right moment. He suggest them that under no circumstance they must allow his real will emerges, creating a stereotyped model without loosing spontaneity, but you know how it is; he will live in new flesh the sum of his contradictions, falling down twice in his raising date, and forgetting that the love is much wiser than we pretend to know because the imagination and the taste is such elusive and subjective matter that many successful accidents will work out as the real hook to find his expected love.
Funny, original and smart entertaining film that links with that Trufautt ' s lovely film "The man who loved women" and showing that the author cinema is coming back, fortunately in USA, because the creative process has been growing in the last decade, at short steps, if you want but that means something. From American Beauty to Madison Bridges, Magnolia and Mulholland drive, Matrix to Requiem for a dream, and As good as it gets to The notebook you will find there are not preconceived barriers when the creativity runs freely.