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The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Chip; Vance Munson; Paula Patton.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:29:37Read transcript
- Chip is selected for the brief bar performance. — Bill Simmons
- Vance Munson and Paula Patton are proposed as alternatives. — Mina Kimes
What’s Aged the Worst?
Michael Rapaport as a likable friend; extravagant courtship; assaults; tabloid office; pacing and allergy sequence.
Flex pick · Mina Kimes
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- Michael Rapaport playing a likable friend is selected by Mina under an explicitly cued flex. — Mina Kimes
- The luxurious, unrealistic tabloid office is criticized.
- Hitch’s elaborate first-date planning and walkie-talkies are criticized as potentially creepy now.
- The response is defended as depending on whether the recipient already likes the man.
- The seven o’clock meeting time is judged stranger than the jet skis. — Van Lathan
- Women striking men and the food fight are criticized as conduct contemporary movies would avoid. — Van Lathan
- Hitch choosing Sara rather than the Paula Patton character is criticized.
- The middle of the movie drags when Kevin James is absent. — Bill Simmons
- The food-allergy comedy is criticized. — Bill Simmons
- The extreme portrayal of Albert as a man who could win Allegra is judged less believable now.
Most Rewatchable Scene
Dance lessons and first date; Albert attacking Hitch; opening principles; bar; jet skis; wedding.
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- The opening montage of Hitch’s principles is proposed.
- The broom metaphor is accepted as fine. — Bill Simmons
- The claim that communication is 30 percent tone and 60 percent body language is doubted. — Bill Simmons
- The rule that a woman’s best friend must approve is endorsed and debated through personal examples.
- The bar conversation and flashback are proposed. — Bill Simmons
- Michael Rapaport’s single-scene role and unclear brother-in-law connection are separate observations about the bar sequence.
- The Paula Patton bar appearance and her star potential receive extended praise.
- Albert quitting in the boardroom while Hitch coaches from behind a door is proposed.
- Hitch rescuing Eva Mendes’s character from Chip is proposed as a classic smooth entrance.
- The walkie-talkie invitation is proposed. — Van Lathan
- The Sunday timing is praised as a calculated way around Friday and Saturday refusal. — Van Lathan
- Hitch is said to use the walkie-talkie partly because Sara’s coworkers will hear and react. — Van Lathan
- The Hudson River jet-ski portion of the date is proposed. — Mina Kimes
- The Ellis Island reveal is proposed for its surprising butcher joke and Hitch’s planning failure.
- The early dance montage is proposed. — Bill Simmons
- The allergy scene is proposed; later, the food-allergy material is said not to work. — Bill Simmons
- Albert’s Knicks date and attempted kiss are proposed. — Bill Simmons
- The apartment food fight is proposed. — Van Lathan
- The food fight is separately criticized as aggression that would not play the same way now. — Van Lathan
- Speed dating is proposed.
- A reported post-pandemic speed-dating resurgence undercuts the idea that the activity is purely a 2005 relic.
- Will Smith and Eva Mendes are compared to two hot aliens placed among the speed-dating losers. — Mina Kimes
- Hitch pleading for Albert on Allegra’s boat is proposed.
- The wedding and end-credit dancing are proposed.
- Hitch pleading Albert’s case before Albert attacks him is selected as the funniest moment. — Van Lathan
- The dance lesson intercut with Albert’s first date is the consensus selection. — Mina Kimes
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