I have enjoyed Will Smith for quite a while. He’s had a few flubs, such as Wild, Wild West, but generally even in those, he can be entertaining to watch.

This time around, Smith plays Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, matchmaker extraordinaire. He doesn’t advertise, and won’t even talk to you if your plan is just to get the girl for one night. For Hitch, it’s all about the long ball.

Enter Albert Brennaman (Kevin James). Albert is stuck in a mid-level, go-nowhere job, and he pines for one of his clients – the ultra-rich, and way-out-of-his-league Allegra Cole (played by the scarcely-seen Amber Valletta).

When he gets a hold of Hitch, he thinks that his problems are solved. Hitch thinks that his problems have just begun. Turning Albert into someone that Allegra Cole will fall for is no easy task, and before long, Albert turns up on the front page of the gossip rags, making his job even tougher. To make matters worse, the ever-cynical Hitch has started to fall for his own challenge – the charming and elusive Sara Melas. It looks like his moves, which work on everyone else, won’t work on Sara, and it could get ugly.

Before long, Allegra finds out that Hitch has been helping – or at least trying to help – Albert step up his game, and that means that Albert is sent packing. Luckily for him, his charming ineptitude gets him back in it. Hitch has to learn something from it to have a chance himself.

While this is another one of those movies that won’t win any awards, it’s a great date movie, and also a fun movie to watch, if for nothing else than the interaction between Smith and James. If there’s nothing else on the tube one weekend afternoon, don’t let it pass by. The actors are all well-cast in their roles, and the movie just flies by.

Rated PG-13 for language and some strong sexual references.

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