You don't dance!
Honey, that was just part of the cover!

Mr and Mrs Smith is a totally ridiculous movie. But that's ok. See, it knows it's totally ridiculous and plays it up. Plus, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are so ridiculously good looking and charming they make it work.

Sure, there's some structure problems: The audience knows right away that these two are hitmen (I guess, hitpersons) and the first act of the movie is mostly about whether they'll figure it out. This drug a bit and sort of added to the ridiculousness.

Then there was some plot problems. For example after they figure out who each other are, they start hunting each other. This part of the movie focuses on Pitt, who is very clever in tracking down Jolie. But she's also looking for him, and for some reason can't find him even though he's staying at the house of the guy who was the best man in their wedding. Um, yeah.

But we forgive all those things. This movie isn't about that stuff. It's about Jolie's silly base of operations that staffed exclusively by mid to late 20's women with model looks, it's about fight scenes that are more about character development then action, it's about big explosions. But mostly, it's about Pitt and Jolie being more good looking and charming then any two people should ever be.

Ridiculous, but lots of fun.

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