
Just back from a sneak preview of Hancock compliments of Best Buy (thanks again for the tix Best Buy!). My teen daughter and I both enjoyed it a lot.
I won't post open spoilers here in the initial article, but wanted to say a few things about the film.
#1. Parents may wish to exercise extra caution before taking youngsters to this one. I'm not sure of the rating, but I'm guessing R, almost entirely on language. Language included many references to a--hole, and a few other words tossed in for good measure. If you'd prefer your children to not be running around calling people a--hole's, you may want to skip this one for them for now.
#2. I don't want to get spoilerific here, but I've gotta suggest that you try to avoid watching the current series of trailers for the film because THE FRIGGIN' MARKETING IDIOTS ARE GIVING A BIT TOO MUCH AWAY IN THE LATEST TRAILERS. The original trailers were much more generic, the most recent trailers that I had been seeing definitely give away some things that would much more effective/surprising if the marketing types hadn't come out with these new trailers. Keep reading for more...
#3. Stick around through a few minutes of the credits. There's a bonus scene that comes in after the credits start rolling.
Outside of that, the film moves along pretty quickly and is fairly enjoyable. Definitely something I'd buy later on Blu-ray. I may consider paying for a ticket to see it on the big screen again, though given gasoline prices eating my disposable income like crazy, and a batch of other films out now that I still want to see (Wall-E, and perhaps The Dark Knight on the big screen), I may have to pass. The film is easily worth the ticket price though, and I'd definitely do it again if I wasn't looking at a coming weekend full of potential movie watching already.
Will Smith does a very good job, and Jason Bateman is great for his role too. Charlize Theron is here too and does well. Go see it if you've got the $$. BIG HAPPY THUMBS UP and SMILES FOR THIS ONE 