Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Doug Liman
Actors: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, Vince Vaughn, Kerry Washington
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 2231371
UPC: 024543213710
EAN: 0024543213710
ASIN: B000AP04FG
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 2005
Release Date: November 29, 2005
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie smolder in one of the most anticipated sizzling action films ever made. After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith (Pitt and Jolie) are stuck in a rut the size of the Grand Canyon until the truth comes out! Unbeknownst to each other they are both coolly lethal highly paid assassins working for rival organizations. And when they discover they're each other's next target their secret lives collide in a spicy explosive mix of wicked comedy pent-up passion nonstop action and high-tech weaponry that gives an all-new meaning to "Till death do us part!"System Requirements:Starring: Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Vince Vaughn Directed By: Doug Liman Running Time: 112 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543213710 Manufacturer No: 2231371
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Released amidst rumors of romance between costars Angelina Jolie and soon-to-be-divorced Brad Pitt, Mr. and Mrs. Smith offers automatic weapons and high explosives as the cure for marital boredom. The premise of this exhausting action-comedy (no relation to the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock comedy starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery) is that the unhappily married Smiths (Pitt and Jolie) will improve their relationship once they discover their mutually-hidden identities as world-class assassins, but things get complicated when their secret-agency bosses order them to rub each other out. There's plenty of amusing banter in the otherwise disposable screenplay by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, Fantastic Four), and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) gives Pitt and Jolie a slick, glossy superstar showcase that's innocuous but certainly never boring. It could've been better, but as an action-packed summer confection, Mr. and Mrs. Smith kills two hours in high style. --Jeff Shannon
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 Killer Action & Comedy February 3, 2010
Shane Shogren (Las Vegas, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a suburban couple who live in a large and beautiful house on a quiet street, have been keeping a rather large secret from one another - they are both actually assassins working for rival organizations.
When the two are sent on the same job and unexpectedly discover the true nature of their respective professions, they wage war on each other, which eventually destroys the not so happy home they've been trying so hard to maintain. However, when it becomes clear that their bosses want them eliminated, they realize they have to turn to each other.
Overall, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a mixture of very dark comedy and some well put together action sequences that deliver a well rounded movie going experience, but, there's some definite flaws here - some common sense issues, not to mention that there's no real villain - but the battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - verbal and otherwise - manages to carry the picture to it's conclusion.
 Dinner's always at seven, but the deception runs around the clock December 31, 2009
H. Bala (Carson - hey, we have an IKEA store! - CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
MR. & MRS. SMITH is slick and loud and a bit empty and maybe even obnoxious, but since it features perhaps the most beautiful couple in the world, I tend to overlook the movie's excesses and transgressions. You just about have to, with films like this which run on sheer glamorous star power and make you cave with its oodles of sex appeal.
The movie starts off cute, borrowing a morsel from WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, that bit where married couples are being interviewed. Immediately we catch on that, after five or six years of gradually eroding togetherness, the Smiths' marriage has stagnated. John Smith is a professional engineer. Jane Smith troubleshoots iffy corporate computer servers. They know this about each other. But what each doesn't know is that the other is secretly an elite contract assassin. And their hidden worlds are about to collide.
Essentially MR. & MRS. SMITH is a screwball from the hitman's perspective and it's marked with such a heightened sense of fun and cool and style that I half anticipated cameos from Pitt's Ocean's Eleven cronies. It's more lighthearted than Prizzi's Honor and not as dark as The War of the Roses. The action pieces are super-charged and over-the-top; the undercover assassin elements are handled well. Is the movie as gritty as, say, the Bourne flicks? No, but it's obvious that this movie isn't going for that grittiness. It's half a dose of provocative marriage-on-the-rocks romance, and half John Woo-inspired bullets ballet.
- Jane Smith to her husband John: "Baby, you couldn't find the button with two hands and a map."
MR. & MRS. SMITH frames Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at their banterful best, their caustic, suggestive exchanges perhaps giving us a whiff of what really went on behind the scenes on set (if you buy all those rumors). Jolie and Pitt are Hollywood royalty, and this film capitalizes on their star power and showcases their spectacular chemistry. And it's hard not to get the vapors, watching their sensual dance in Bogotá, Colombia or that home-wrecking domestic brawl they get into. This film isn't as good as True Lies but it's way sexier (and this is with mad respect to Jamie Lee Curtis's hotel room strip scene).
And sometimes the curse of being too beautiful kicks in. Pitt and Jolie are so gorgeous that we sometimes forget that these two have got very good acting skills. They're so natural and charismatic at playing these types of roles that one tends to dismiss the work that goes into the portrayal. These guys can act. Props, also, to the scoring. The droll, easy-breezy score is indispensable, transforming what would otherwise have been an unbearable study of a stifling marriage into something that comes across more as a series of comedic domestic squabbles.
But, yes, okay, it does feel at times as if the film is trying too hard. There's a bit of overkill.
But, dang, look at all the pretty.
This Unrated edition comes in two discs. Disc 1 has the feature presentation and Director Doug Liman's film commentary. Disc 2 has the following:
- "Confidential Files" features 12 deleted scenes - including Adam Brody's funny extraction scene and a pretty neat (but predictable) alternate ending - and the screenplay of yet another alternate ending, and almost four minutes of gag reel.
- "Domestic Violence: Shooting MR. & MRS. SMITH" - the 33-minute Behind-the-Scenes documentary (a worthwhile look, and I liked the break down footage of several scenes, including the two dance pieces).
- "Doug's Film School" - Director Doug Liman introduces seven segments: "Framing Device" tracks Adam Brody's providing narration as a framing device for the story (although the studio eventually decided not to go this route). "Mother & Father" is a series of deleted cutaway scenes featuring John and Jane's respective bosses (Jacqueline Bisset and Terrence Stamp, later replaced with Angela Bassett and Keith David). The lengthy "Snowy Ravine" segment features the previsualization and live shooting of the ravine sequence (where you can see Brad Pitt get in a firefight with a cartoon); the ravine sequence later became the desert sequence, the shooting of which is also included (plus the screenplays for both sequences). We see the animated storyboarding Liman used to prep for the "Hood Jump" sequence (where Jane runs over John with her car); screenplay included. "Underground Garage" presents an alternate take of the Smiths' "run or fight" conversation which, in the movie, took place under a sewer grate but in this bonus scene is set in an underground garage; screenplay included. "HomeMade" focuses on the alternate front-end sequence to the big firefight climax (taking place this time in the HomeMade depot center during business hours instead of KostMart at night); also included, two storyboard sequences and the screenplay. Finally, there are "Previsualizations" (rough conceptual animation) of seven scenes.
- and three photo galleries.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith December 18, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recommend this movie to all people who want to see a fun, action packed movie. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is smart and sassy, it's a lot of fun. Jolie and Pitt were made for this one.
 ok movie December 15, 2009
L. Bearinger
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is an ok movie but not the best movie that mr pitt or mrs. julie did before. it was a boring movie.
why marry? here's the answer...... December 9, 2009
Magier (virginia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In this day of high divorce rates, golfers who putt when they should be driving, and sluts who steal their friends' husbands, it is good to see a family values bit of entertainment, like this, which shows how a marriage can stay together, even with distractions on all sides.
The leads, who reportedly have been married themselves, are perfect as a middle-age couple who find their needs met by a similar, yet complimentary, partner, not picked for them by their parents. It shows how marrital therapy can help over some of the rougher spots, and how friends are still necessary, even in a strong marriage.
Blue Ray makes it all more vibrant and makes this couple, already fairly attractive, fun to watch with every detail sharp and clear.
Katherine and Spencer, Jodie and Hannibal, I know, I know, there have been other pairings that survive over time, at least on the screen, but here we have something more special, more joyous, more adventuresome than we have ever viewed before.
Not as good as "To Catch A Thief," better than "King Kong," this is a pastic disc that every serious movie freak will want to own and repeatedly watch over the years. After you see this flick enough times, I recommend you move down to "Dr. Zhivago," and watch that with your love, as the world cools down.
Current rumours have it that Mr. and Mrs. Smith will appear in a subplot of "Ocean's Fourteen."
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