Hancock, the antithesis of the Wonder Twins

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Do you remember the days where a movie was actually released the day it was advertised to?  At least the more popular movies, with higher licensed characters, this is most def’ the case.  I saw Transformers, Spider-man 3 and now Hancock a day early.  I must say, William Smith surprised me with this. 

As for the Wonder Twins and their anti-thesising? 

Their powers were activated when the twins touched each other and spoke the words "Wonder Twin powers, activate!". (In the comics, it was revealed that this phrase was unnecessary, just a habit of theirs.)

The biggest surprise in this movie was the relation between Hancock and his PR’s wife.  She was always suspicious of Hancock, but in the end we find they are actually married, just not in the conventional sense.  They are of a few thousand year old ‘race’ of superhuman’s.  During their time on Earth, they were considered gods.  The part I am not entirely a fan of, is how, when in contact, their powers the two negate each other’s powers.  I fount it an odd idea, but that is how Hancock and Mary Embery became the last of their kind.

John Hancock named himself thusly when, in a hospital 80 years ago, he was asked for his ‘John Hancock’.  What really surprised me was how serious the movie got near the end.  I was a real fan of the drunkard-Hancock we started out with, but he became a standard superhero far too easily.  That Bateman did a real find job, it seems.  Another beef I had was a lack of a real super-villain.  I mean, he had a villain, some half-assed bad guy, an apparent "criminal mastermind" but it felt nothing but a filler-criminal, someone who’s bank heist was to appear right after the intro credits.

I wish this movie to have been longer, if not only to show more of the characters.  The idea was really cool, Will definitely got ‘Jiggy’-wit it (nana na na nanaa).  It is also a good movie to watch if you are waiting for TDK as ravenously as I am.

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