Mr. and Mrs. Smith Release Date: June 10, 2005 Starring: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Vince Vaughn Directed by: Doug Liman
(Fox, $29.98) Movie:2 1/2 starsDisc:2 stars
The Movie: First, the not at all surprising good news: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are incredibly, unbelievably sexy people. Especially when they’re making out. Or beating each other up. If scientists could harness the power of their hotness, the country’s energy problem would be solved. Unfortunately, the bad news is that their amazing hotness cannot fix what’s wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The film is 20 minutes too long, and reported midproduction rewrites cut major actors out of the film and made a hash of Simon Kinberg’s script. Quite simply, it’s a mess. But a mess that includes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie being unbelievably hot. So it has that going for it.
The Disc: A nice inclusion would have been Kinberg explaining what he originally intended the movie to be, before Angela Bassett, Keith David, and Adam Brody were all downgraded to seat-fillers. Instead, Kinberg contributes to a laughably banal Fox Movie Channel examination of one less-than-scintillating scene, in which director Doug Liman repeatedly notes how crucial it is to the central relationship that Jolie bashes into Pitt with her car. A deleted scene from the climactic home-store shootout fills in major continuity error in the finished film.