This was a solid rom-com, and a fairly clean at that, without any blatant sex scenes. Alex Hitchens (Will Smith) is a matchmaker, of sorts. He takes ordinary men and gives them the confidence for things to work out with their dream girl, who is certainly way out of their league.
Currently, his current client is boring, awkward accountant, Albert Brennaman (Kevin James) whose in love with Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta) who is rich and famous, though it never specifies what for.
While she falls for him, Hitch also unexpectedly falls in love with gossip columnist and romantic cynic, Sara Melas (Eva Mendes). Both are great love stories and both have tons of ups and downs, including some of the worst dates, including Hitch having an allergic reaction to some food, which causes his face to swell up.
Naturally, his profession is outed, but everything works out in the end, both couples end up together and happy though know what Hitch is doing now.
There are plenty of good lines and funny moments and the acting is superb, which is always refreshing to see. This is not a romantic comedy to be dismissed. That all being said, it is also unrealistic, people don't fall in love that quickly, but wouldn't be nice if they did. Grade: B
Side Notes:
-Pay attention to cameos from Joe Lo Truglio and Kevin Sussman.
-Hitch's greatest line is "Don't count your breaths but rather the moments that take your breath away."
-Eight of ten women know how a relationship will work after the first kiss. I guess that's true for me.
-Hitch has standards and his goal is get two people to fall in love, not get the guy into the woman's pants. Which adds to the unrealisticness of film, sadly.
-If you can't drive stick, don't drive stick.
-I feel bad for Hitch's shirt, it goes through a lot.
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