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Hitch (7/10)

July 3rd, 2005

Can you say “Romantic Comedy”? If you look it up in the dictionary, surely this movie would be mentioned, and I can’t think of a romantic comedy that I’ve liked this much in while. Hitch is about Alex ‘Hitch’ Hitchens (Will Smith) and how he has a job as a dating consultant, but falls in love with a gossip columnist, Sara (Eva Mendes), that threatens his business. His main client at the time is Albert (Kevin James), an accountant, who wants to date one of his company’s highest profile clients, Allegra Cole (Amber Valetta). Sara tries to get the scoop on the story and that is where she crosses paths with Hitch. Hitch tries to woo Sara, but all of the smooth dating advice he gives to his clients doesn’t seem to help, and he has one dating disaster after another.

This movie was not overly sweet and cute, and I really liked the way we had to follow two plots to the film. There was the plot of the accountant trying to date his client, who seemed to be out of his league, and there was the story of Hitch and Sara. I never got bored with the movie, and most of the funny moments were actually funny.

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