It's just too bad that Smith wanted to play it so safe and so easy when Hitch could've benefited from a stronger vision and much bigger laughs.
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Hitch (2005)
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Reviews Counted:176
Fresh:120
Rotten:56
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Despite Hitch's predictability, Will Smith and Kevin James win praise for their solid, warmhearted performances.
Theatrical Release:Feb 11, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $177,575,142
Synopsis: In Andy Tennant's (SWEET HOME ALABAMA, ANNA AND THE KING) delightful romantic comedy HITCH, Will Smith stars as Alex Hitchens, an urban "date doctor" who helps the common man woo the woman of his... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta
Director: Andy Tennant
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Reviews for Hitch
A standard-issue rom-com in almost every respect, but the irresistible charm of its lead pushes it over the top.
02/10/05
Screenwriter Kevin Bisch emphasizes tired jokes and stock situations over anything resembling reality, something that's exacerbated by a seriously overlong running time.
02/10/05
Knows its formula well enough to run its finger along the grooves quick and smooth.
02/10/05
Director Andy Tennant is actor-friendly throughout, giving his performers (including a sweet turn by Julie Ann Emery as Mendes' best friend) a chance to breathe in their roles.
02/10/05
Top CriticSmith carries it off with his effortless charm and confidence, whether he's chatting up a woman, conspiring with the audience, or instructing a client, and director Andy Tennant gives it a light gloss and an easy lilt.
02/10/05
The film moves in fits and starts, and is way too long, but it may prove memorable, if only for the sweet, marvelously inventive performance of Kevin James.
02/10/05
A pleasant date movie with several laughs and a couple of smiles.
02/10/05
Smith is a gifted comic actor, and seeing him in a lighthearted comedy, his first romantic lead, is a pure pleasure.
02/10/05
Top CriticHow reassuring to realize that happy surprises are still possible. Hitch is one of the happiest.
02/10/05
Top CriticNot so much movie as antidote -- to the cynicism that's rampant in most Hollywood romantic comedies.
02/10/05
Top CriticToo many false endings and time issues aside, Hitch is difficult to discount when it handles the rom-com formula better than most of its insufferably dumbed-down ilk.
02/10/05
An average romantic comedy, starring Will Smith and Eva Mendes, that is as soft and sweet as a marshmallow, and about as interesting.
02/10/05
Top CriticYou know what's being fed to you and yet you slurp it down just the same.
02/10/05
Top CriticSmith and sexy Mendes spar nicely, but they don't spark. In movies, that's the kiss of death.
02/10/05
Top CriticThe sour subplot, in which Sara's dark side mistakes Hitch for a cad, staggers to a gummy resolution, throwing a wet-blanket reminder that romantic comedy -- indeed, romance itself -- isn't what it used to be.
02/10/05
Top CriticFor women, it purveys the dream that men really, really care about what they think. For men, it holds out the fantasy that babes are attracted to geeky men who really, really care about what they think. What's not to like?
02/10/05
Top CriticHitch suffers from a good-joke deficit that even Smith's charm has trouble balancing.
02/10/05
Andy Tennant, Will Smith and Kevin James have managed to deliver a decent comedy out of a one-note idea.
02/10/05
James and Smith are terrific together.
02/10/05
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