One of the Best Romantic Comedies in Years

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2019)

20 February 2005. Warning: Spoilers. Hitch is one of the funniest movies since There's Something About Mary (1998). While I wasn't eager to see this Wil Smith movie, fifteen minutes into the movie I was convinced otherwise. This Mel Gibson's "What Women Want" 2000 and the more recent Jude Law's Alfie (2004) combo-like movie, Hitch presents a more comic narrative than the more darker Jude Law's Alfie, with the more family, date-crowd atmospherics of Mel Gibson's "What Women Want." The slap stick humor, the stereotypical dumpy looking guy getting the hots for the gorgeous girl and the more suave man falling for the less than model, stellar woman has elements both men and women will be able to appreciate. The laughs in the theater will loud and repeating throughout the movie. This is a great date movie with plenty of smiles and the requisite temporary dramatic roller coaster ending. Mostly predictable as most romantic comedies are required to be, this movie is no rehashing of old material, but a delightful, refreshing examination of what makes men and women different and the foibles of meeting people of the opposite sex. Eight of Ten Stars (as a romantic comedy genre).