Will Smith and his co-star Charlize Theron attended another Hancock Premiere in Los Angeles at Mann's Chinese Theater.
Diddy and Will Smith brought their kids to the premiere too. Jaden Smith and Christian Combs look like their powerful rap mogul dads.
We see a collabo in their future for the rapper's kids. Maybe the Jaiden Chris act can sing a remake of "Parents Just Don't Understand". We think the introduction to the pair would be a description like "Meet the Fresh Prince and Diddy Mini- Me's."
Jada brought the whole family to support their dad. Willow has a role in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" which opens the same week as her dad's film. Hancock opens tomorrow on July 2nd. It's Big Willie Weekend. The film is getting mixed reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Check out pics from some of the other celebs who attended like Jada Pinkett Smith, Lisa Raye, Tatiyana Ali and Tia Mowry. We know that Queen Latifah attended but we don't know what she was wearing or why she showed up on the red carpet wearing an outfit that looked like gym clothes. Don't even get us started on what Willow is wearing.
We know that Will Smith is going to do well at the boxoffice. We just wonder why it took so long for the studios to make an African-American superhero film beside the Blade series starring Wesley Snipes.
We have heard a Hollywood director say that Will Smith is the only African-American actor & producer in Hollywood with enough power to greenlight a studio picture. Denzel Washington doesn't even have as much power because his overseas boxoffice isn't as strong as Will Smith who is an international boxoffice star. Hancock premiered in Germany, London, Moscow,Paris and Los Angeles. Will Smith was just named the "Most Powerful Man in Hollywood" and commands $20 million dollar paydays. We just think that Will Smith should be more protective of his image when he portrays certain characters. Our favorite Will Smith role is when he played a loveable con man in "Six Degrees of Separation". Will Smith was so convincing when he portrayed that character and recited his monologue about "Catcher in the Rye."
The Hancock action hero character is superhuman but he is a drunk who literally can't fly straight and has no personality. Robert Downey Jr. is a real life crackhead who was repeatedly busted and jailed for crack cocaine possession. However Robert Downey Jr.'s character in Ironman fits the action hero template and is a sober competent superhero.
Imagine that the word "a-hole" — fully spoken out — is repeated over and over, and that its first appearance, in the movie’s first scene, is delivered by a child. Thus, the vulgarity begins. But unlike other crass films of this month, such as "Zohan" and "Love Guru," the coarseness of "Hancock" is a wildly under-calculated mistake.
Hancock, preposterously, is an unwilling superhero. He’s a drunk, a hobo and — to be frank — an "a-hole" so lacking in charisma, charm or even bravado that there’s nowhere for him to go but down from a low rung on the ladder. Unlike Smith’s cocky, smiling heroes of the past, Hancock is just offensive and stupid. His favorite warning to those he’s about to pulverize is an admonition that at least one of his villains will wind up with their head relocated in Hancock’s derriere. True enough, one time we get to see this and it’s not pretty. It’s not funny, either. The screenplay, which is underdeveloped to the point of amazement for a Hollywood summer blockbuster, is credited to Vince Gilligan and Vincent Ngo. That they’ve done Smith a disservice is an understatement, but their other victims are Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman and a little boy named Jae Head. Their characters literally are abandoned to incoherence. An hour and 20 minutes later, here are things you will not know: who Hancock is, where he and Theron came from (it’s telegraphed with the subtlety of a mallet that she has a past with him) and who the persons fighting them are (I have no idea). This much we know: Hancock, whom we meet as he awakens on a park bench from a drinking binge, has powers of flight and super strength. He either can’t or doesn’t want to control them. He’s belligerent and obnoxious, a sort of anti-hero who in comic books usually is defeated by a good guy.The latter is something he doesn’t want to be. When Bateman’s PR guy shows Hancock a bunch of comics featuring superheroes, Hancock’s response to each one is "Homo." Charming. It is said the legion of writers and directors who came and went before "Hancock" was initiated had a "black" comedy in mind — something that sent up the idea of superheroes. But a mess has been made in the process and $150 million wasted.
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