After seeing the ads for this movie, I didn’t think I’d like it. But a friend loaned it to me, and I found it was quite enjoyable.

I really can’t find it in myself to have much of an opinion on this either way. It just… didn’t actually make the points it thought it did, it started and then changed its mind. Although it did have Will Smith and others dancing really really stupidily for a really long time at the end. Meh.

I agree that this movie is fluff, and it is entertaining enough to sit down for a couple hours and watch it.

I wish I could leave it there, but I just can’t. At least a few people were involved with creating this story and then deciding if the movie should have been made. They decided what the movie should be about. Seriously, what were they thinking?

Actually, the movie starts out wonderfully. There are men that don’t quite get how to act around the women that they are attracted to. Our boy Hitch does a great job of coaching them to have confidence and to get noticed by the ladies.

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But the movie ends by completely dismissing that these men needed help. “Just be yourself, and that’s OK. No need for improvement. The improvement has actually gotten in the way. Be a groveling, whiny bitch, and it’ll work out!”

Bah-low-nee! There is some truth to the “be yourself” part, but you are not helping yourself if you don’t have the confidence to stand out and get your potential mate’s attention.

So watch it for entertainment and amusement. And take advice from the story when it’s not advocating that you rid yourself of your masculinity. But mostly watch it for entertainment and amusement.

I definitely thought it was a cute movie!

The last week we’ve been watching a bunch of ‘guilty pleasure’ type movies, ones we wouldn’t normally consume but needed to give some candy to the brain.

Hitch is one of these, and I’d recommend it as a good date movie as it does raise some topics that would be good post date discussion items.

There was a line of dialogue near the begining that I think is quote worthy as well: “Life is not the number of breaths you takes. It is the number of moments that take your breath away.”

kevin james makes me laugh. good fluff movie. don’t have to pay attention.

I wouldn’t watch it again (I used a free rental card on it) but it was a good movie. Will Smith and Kevin James are great together.

i thought it was hilarious!