Can Dr love get a date?
Is there a ‘romantic-comedy’ film men like? One that they would go to watch, instead of being forced to go, or wanting to score points with whomever they are going with?
Film: Hitch
Stars: Will Smith, Eva Mendes
Director: Andy Tennant
Running time: 115 mins
Rating: PG-13 for language and strong sexual references
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from Friday
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
Is there a ‘romantic-comedy’ film men like? One that they would go to watch, instead of being forced to go, or wanting to score points with whomever they are going with?
For some reason, critics think this film, Hitch, is the one; the film that guys and gals will enjoy equally.
But maybe they are right, because Will Smith plays Alex ‘Hitch’ Hitchens, a kind of date doctor. His favourite phrase is “90% of what you’re saying isn’t coming out of your mouthâ€.
To this doctor, you communicate with your body language, your mood and your attitude about yourself. “Nothing a guy can say will impress a woman nearly as much as the non-verbal messages she receives,†he insists.
Before we go into the plot, is that enough to make guys go watch this movie? Hoping maybe this doctor could teach us a few tricks, even as we affirm we were coerced?
In the movie, Hitch is a dating consultant based in New York. He helps out guys that need to get attention from the females they like. No hit and runs only serious guys need apply. He understands women: how to get their attention, how to seem heroic to them, what to tell them and what not to tell them.
What he tells the guys to do is why this film is a comedy. Why it is a romance is what actually happens to him.
Hitch’s latest client is Albert (Kevin James), a fat and shy accountant that is in love with the rich, powerful, famous and beautiful Allegra (Amber Valetta). Hitch tries to smooth him out, clean him out and give him some class and maybe Allegra may notice he exists.
Problem is the date doctor is having problems with his romantic interest. Hitch has fallen in love with a beautiful but smart, cynical woman, Sara (Eva Mendes).
She is a gossip columnist and is not impressed by his attempts at wooing her. Apparently what he has been selling other people does not work for him. Or is he trying too hard?
Whatever, the critics mostly liked Will Smith’s incursion in the romance genre. “Smith is a gifted comic actor, and seeing him in a comedy, his first romantic lead, is a pure pleasure,†wrote Carina Chocano for the Los Angeles Times.
Stars: Will Smith, Eva Mendes
Director: Andy Tennant
Running time: 115 mins
Rating: PG-13 for language and strong sexual references
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from Friday
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
Is there a ‘romantic-comedy’ film men like? One that they would go to watch, instead of being forced to go, or wanting to score points with whomever they are going with?
For some reason, critics think this film, Hitch, is the one; the film that guys and gals will enjoy equally.
But maybe they are right, because Will Smith plays Alex ‘Hitch’ Hitchens, a kind of date doctor. His favourite phrase is “90% of what you’re saying isn’t coming out of your mouthâ€.
To this doctor, you communicate with your body language, your mood and your attitude about yourself. “Nothing a guy can say will impress a woman nearly as much as the non-verbal messages she receives,†he insists.
Before we go into the plot, is that enough to make guys go watch this movie? Hoping maybe this doctor could teach us a few tricks, even as we affirm we were coerced?
In the movie, Hitch is a dating consultant based in New York. He helps out guys that need to get attention from the females they like. No hit and runs only serious guys need apply. He understands women: how to get their attention, how to seem heroic to them, what to tell them and what not to tell them.
What he tells the guys to do is why this film is a comedy. Why it is a romance is what actually happens to him.
Hitch’s latest client is Albert (Kevin James), a fat and shy accountant that is in love with the rich, powerful, famous and beautiful Allegra (Amber Valetta). Hitch tries to smooth him out, clean him out and give him some class and maybe Allegra may notice he exists.
Problem is the date doctor is having problems with his romantic interest. Hitch has fallen in love with a beautiful but smart, cynical woman, Sara (Eva Mendes).
She is a gossip columnist and is not impressed by his attempts at wooing her. Apparently what he has been selling other people does not work for him. Or is he trying too hard?
Whatever, the critics mostly liked Will Smith’s incursion in the romance genre. “Smith is a gifted comic actor, and seeing him in a comedy, his first romantic lead, is a pure pleasure,†wrote Carina Chocano for the Los Angeles Times.