Hitch - 2005

I liked this, it was fun, it was much nicer than its trailer led me to believe. First of all Will Smith's character Alex Hitch is really a nice guy, a sweet puppy, and not a total jerk. The story is pretty simple: Hitch helps uncool guys have a shot with the woman of their dreams who usually doesn't even know they exist. He creates the right opportunity, teaches them how to behave on the first date, until the couple kisses for the first time, then they're on their own. He calls himself "the date doctor" and last he helps chubby, messy Albert (Kevin James) have a chance with rich, famous and beautiful Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta). Meanwhile, unknown of his real job, Sara (Eva Mendes) goes out with him a couple of times, all of which are a complete disaster, but leave an unforgettable sign on her :lol: She has a gossip column on a paper, and as she herself puts it she deals with gossip, not facts, still I think she got away with what she did too easily. She was a real bitch, if you pardon my language, she really was. Thing is, a shit guy wanted to hire Alex to help him "bang" a woman (disgusting guy), but Alex refuses because Alex deals with "love" and the guy's just a pig (I apologize to the pigs).
The woman he was talking about is Sara's best friend who is hurt by him, and Sara thinks Alex helped him hurt her, but she doesn't put that man on the front page of her paper, no, she puts Albert's relationship with Allegra, because she wouldn't do that to her dear friend, because Allegra is famous and because frankly she doesn't care one bit to destroy her happiness (she herself, watching the unusual couple, marveled at how happy Allegra seemed to be). I think nothing justifies what she did. Had she talked only of Alex it would have been more acceptable, she was clearly a broken heart looking for revenge behind the useful cover of her friend's story, but if someone hurts you this doesn't give you the right to involve other people you know nothing about.
Alex goes to talk to Allegra to explain to her he only provided Albert with a chance to be noticed, and she has to admit she probably wouldn't have , otherwise. She asks him if all the things she liked about Albert were researched by Alex, but no, she came to like Albert because he was sweet and funny and made her feel good with herself.
Sara apologizes to Alex (and only to him). Thanks to Albert, Alex realizes he must stop running away from love just because he was once hurt, so he goes to Sara to confess his love. He's now no more the self-confident professional, just a blubbering-guy who can't even talk to her if she looks at him. So he speaks to her through her closed door: "what do you want Alex?" "you". That was good, because it is always a good one and because he said it well.
So, happy ending all over, with Albert marrying Allegra :-)
I'm not a fan of Eva Mendes, but here she was ok (I'm not saying she can only play the heartless bitch, but simply that here she was ok). On the other hand I do like Will Smith and I did like him here. It was much much nicer than I had prognosticated, it was lots of fun, and it was sweet and romantic. Albert and Allegra were well casted, she was perfect in her role, I liked Allegra a lot.


ITA - (purtroppo) Hitch lui si che capisce le donne (sic)