Line #2 YMMV/Hancock


1	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The infamous scene in the prison where Hancock beats two inmates in a fight by '''''[[AssShove shoving one's head up the other's ass]]'''''. Even for a darkly humorous fantasy comedy, it's bizarre and silly to the point of being ''cartoonish'', it's a brief gag with no effect on the plot whatsoever, and it makes absolutely zero sense. (How does having ''{{super strength}}'' make it any easier to neatly fit a human head into a human rectum without breaking anything?)
2	* BrokenBase: Which half of the movie is better: the BlackComedy [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructive]] first half? Or the grittier, more dramatic second half? Generally speaking, many critics and audience members preferred the first half primarily for being the one that opens up the movie and resembles the trailers most, not to mention being ActuallyPrettyFunny. One critic described it as "the best first half of a movie and the worst second half of a movie ever".
3	* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Kenneth "Red" Parker Jr.]] is a brilliant psychologist-turned-ruthless bank robber who becomes Hancock's [[ArchEnemy most personal foe]]. Introduced to the film by taking dozens of [[HostageSituation hostages]]--including [[WouldHurtAChild kids]]--at a bank and gunning down any police officers who try to save the day, Red threatens to blow each and every hostage to pieces if Hancock doesn't help him rob the bank. After losing his hand to and being disabled by the hero, Red later escapes prison with a few thugs and stages an armed attack at a hospital Hancock is in, endangering the patients and doctors with gunfire as Red tries to kill Hancock, wounding his SatelliteLoveInterest in the process.
4	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Hancock shoving a man's head up another man's ass is simultaneously one of the squickiest and most hilarious things in the movie, largely for the [[RefugeInAudacity absurdity]] of it.
5	* FanPreferredCutContent: Many people consider the original script, which is consistently gritty and has Hancock experiencing suidicial tendencies, as superior to the finished film.
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Ray bandies the word "change" in his Allheart pitch, in a 2008 movie with a black dude as superhero.]] [[note]]Bonus points for Obama specifically tagging [[Creator/WillSmith this movie's lead]] as the guy he would want to play him in a future biopic.[[/note]]
8	** The whole premise of the movie is pretty hilarious by itself, by anyone who was read or watched ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', as both Hancock and Saitama has similar backgrounds, albeit Saitama [[spoiler:got his powers by training really hard for three years and breaking his limiter, compared with Hancock, who is immortal]]. Hell, [[InASingleBound both]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments of them]] even have done impossibly awesome while on the Moon!
9	* NeverLiveItDown: Most people just know this as that superhero movie with Creator/WillSmith that feels like two completely [[HalfwayPlotSwitch different movies stitched together]]. And in the first half, [[AssShove a guy gets his head shoved up another guy's ass]].
10	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnnyGalecki makes a very brief appearance at the restaurant scene greeting Hancock. Although he had been a recurring character on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', this was before becoming a lot more well-known from his role in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' which had started just the year prior. He's even [[BillingDisplacement billed ninth in the credits]] as "Jeremy." Apparently he had more scenes in the early version of the script that he auditioned for, but by the released version they were cut and he was little more than an extra.
11	* RomanticPlotTumor: The first half of the film makes it look like the plot is going to revolve around Hanock slowly improving both as a superhero and a person. Then suddenly him and Mary are making out and the film does a hard swerve from a BlackComedy DeconReconSwitch to a dramatic tragic love story. As described above in BrokenBase, this did ''not'' sit well with a large portion of the viewer-base, who felt this sudden MoodWhiplash was dragging the movie down. It doesn't help that Mary is pretty much a SatelliteLoveInterest and that she and Hancock don't even get together at the end of the movie, making the whole affair feel pointless.
12	* SignatureScene: The moment where Hancock shoves one prisoner's head up another's ass.
13	* {{Squick}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Your head is going up his ass." ]] And dear God, [[AssShove it does]]. He makes a similar threat to the carload of thieves; "Your head is going up the driver's ass, his head is going up your ass, and you drew the short stick, cause your head is going up my ass."
14	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some critics claimed that the first half of the movie was the best part and that the rest of the film wasted the potential of that plot. Others claim the second half could have been a groundbreaking superhero drama if developed fully rather than wasting the first half of the movie being funny. Yet more feel that both of these criticisms are correct, and that the film suffers from trying to weld together two great, but incompatible premises.
15	* UncertainAudience: The movie bills itself as a superhero comedy, and it very much plays out like one in the first half. The second half is where it shifts into being a straight superhero drama that appears to be tonally incompatible with the first half. This makes the movie hard to figure out who it is meant for, since the swapping tone makes it seem like it wants to tell two different stories.

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