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80Immensely likable, and allows Mr. Smith to fulfill his manifest destiny -- as an urbane comedian who is also, shades of Cary Grant, a romantic hero.
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75Smith is an endearing, driving comedic force, one who makes the buoyant Hitch more enjoyable than it has any reason to be.
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75Smith turns it on with co-star Eva Mendes in a manner that will have George Clooney taking notes.
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75Like most great comedies, Hitch confects a sweetly appealing fantasy.
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75The less in control Smith and his co- stars Eva Mendes and Kevin James appear, the better Hitch becomes, until it's rather delightful.
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75For much of its length, the premise seems less wilted than you'd guess. This is because, for one thing, Mendes gives as good as she gets.
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75Hitch is 2005's lone legitimate contender for a Valentine's Day movie date.
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70Smith deserves a better romantic comedy than Hitch, but at least he somehow manages to improve the material around him.
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70A slick new meta-romantic comedy selling a transparent yet strangely irresistible fantasy of upscale romance among the beautiful but guarded.
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70While far from perfect, Hitch is a rare studio product that earns the goodwill it smugly demands.
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70Romantic comedies have become so cannibalistic lately that Hitch stands out for what seem like major innovations by comparison.
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70Sometimes big-time studio entertainment is done so well, you simply have to salute its corporate effectiveness.
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Hitch works best when it's a buddy comedy, with Smith and James having a blast as smooth Yoda and jiggly Jedi.
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70But with all due respect to Smith, the movie--a performance piece with an unbelievable bare-bones plot--belongs to Kevin James.
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67A date film with a hook for men.
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63The premise is intriguing, and for a time it seems that the Date Doctor may indeed know things about women that most men in the movies are not allowed to know, but the third act goes on autopilot just when the Doctor should be in.
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63James has the forward drive of a trash-compacted Ralph Kramden with some of Ed Norton's random gentility and, here at least, he has a knack for fine-tuned physical comedy that gets you laughing even when the script's not there.
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63The movie's last two minutes, in which they all do goofy dances and have no dialogue or script to get in their way, is easily the highlight. It's the previous 113 minutes of plot that cause problems.
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63Multiple lobotomies. That's the only way to explain what happens in the middle of Hitch, whose first hour sets up one of the brightest romantic comedies in months and whose second hour tears it down.
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60But when it's funny, it's truly funny and the featured couples all have an easy and believable chemistry.
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60The movie slides into slapstick at times, but it never overpowers the story.
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60An average romantic comedy put together with enough professionalism to keep your cynicism momentarily at bay, featuring good-looking actors who also, in this case, seem like pretty nice people.
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60Andy Tennant's flimsy but generally likeable comedy is tailor-made for Smith's cheerfully suave comic style, and the movie goes out of its way to avoid any hint of sleaziness.
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58For all its flaws, Hitch largely comes off as a light romp.
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50Will Smith has an easy charm, and this labored romantic farce works it hard. Too hard.
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50The movie, like Hitch, tries to be cool, funny and sweet but falls on its face without generating any real sympathy, smarts or humor.
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50Along with its try-anything-for-a-yuk screenplay, the worst thing about Hitch is its running time of almost two hours. Did the studio forget to edit this flimsy thing down?
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50To enjoy this film, it helps to check your brain at the box office.
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50As the phrase turns, it's better when things come off WITHOUT a hitch.
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50Yet [Smith] can't keep the movie from stopping cold with another hour left to go.
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50Will Smith, taking a break from summer sci-fi smashfests, certainly shows a gift for modulation. Far from coasting, he plays a world expert at romance by ratcheting his charm up and down in supple, exacting degrees.
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50The 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.
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50Buried somewhere in here, about 6 feet deep, is an intriguing premise.
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50Considerably heavier on romance than comedy, Hitch stitches together relatively few laughs but generates enough goodwill and energy.
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40An unwieldy, excessively talky affair, unintentionally exhibiting all the clunky stops and starts and self-conscious ramblings of a particularly awkward first date.
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40In the end, while both of these performers look great together, they really don't seem to belong together. And that's the biggest hitch in Hitch.
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