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Hitch

the verdict:

I love Will Smith, I really do. For a while he got a little ubiquitous and boring, and a little too predictable, but in films, I really like him. Bad Boys being awesome. Admittedly, I don't think he's all that great in real life, as a recent interview with Chris Moyles demonstrates. He didn't come off as being particularly funny, and almost a little too tryhard and a bit sad.

But by the by, Hitch is a good film. It's predictable, and sappy, and altogether too much of a romantic flick with some funny moments in it, but it's well worth a watch. It's very Bruce Almighty, in fact - Jim Carrey does his usual wacky comedy, but with a serious undertone. Same here - the film has a serious story to tell and a point and a moral to get across (that of love and so on), but it has Will Smith being funny, quirky, smooth and cool all rolled into one.

Amusingly, it actually defends the good guys, pointing out that not all men are scum. Which is nice.

But it's worth it, if only to see what happens when Will Smith eats seafood.