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Mr & Mrs Smith (2005)

November 4, 2025·1 hr 38 min·5 clips

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s chemistry is described as “red hot” and “palpable.”

1. The Good, The Bad And The Classics reviews Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) with a focus on Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Keith David, William Fichtner, and Angela Bassett. 2. The hosts are John, Elle, and Ben, and they use the film’s marriage-counseling frame to test whether the movie lands as good, bad, or a classic. 3. The episode asks whether Mr. and Mrs. Smith works because of its spy premise, its marriage comedy, or the chemistry between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. 4. John says he had never seen the film before because “it just never really appealed to me,” and he describes it as an “American rom... com... action... thing.” 5. Elle says she first saw the film soon after its 2005 release, probably on DVD or a download, and remembers thinking it was “a great film” at the time. 6. Ben says the film was on repeat in his house because his mother and sister watched it many times, and he says he saw it “constantly in the DVD player.” 7. The hosts bring up the controversy around Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie meeting while Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston. 8. They also place Pitt and Jolie in their career moment, mentioning Ocean’s films, Tomb Raider, Girl, Interrupted, Original Sin, Fight Club, Seven, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. 9. The conversation repeatedly returns to the Bogotá opening, where John and Jane meet while both carrying weapons and pretending to avoid Colombian authorities. 10. They describe the early fairground sequence as a way the film shows spy competence through gun handling, missed shots, and Jane’s “Beginner’s luck” line. 11. The hosts argue that the film’s marriage scenes work because every domestic routine mirrors spy behavior, from set dinner times to the separate bathroom habits. 12. Ben highlights the “five or six years” caption joke, the separate driveway exit, and the robe that falls to the floor instead of being hung up. 13. The discussion notes that John’s money and armory are hidden in a shed, while Jane keeps her own weapons behind the cooker, which the hosts call ridiculous but consistent with the film’s logic. 14. They talk through Vince Vaughn’s character as an annoying presence, including the line about living with his mother and the way John reacts to him. 15. Keith David’s brief appearance leads to a long aside about his career, his role in The Thing, and his recent Hollywood Walk of Fame star. 16. William Fichtner’s psychiatrist role and Angela Bassett’s uncredited voice role are also singled out as part of the cast breakdown. 17. The hosts treat the film’s tone as playful, with action scenes, relationship gags, and visual set-pieces all played for momentum rather than realism. 18. Their style is loose and conversational, with repeated tangents about film logic, casting, and side comparisons to other movies. 19. Listeners who like action comedies built around celebrity chemistry should enjoy this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a plot-only recap without tangents may skip it.

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A chatty review that gets its mileage from aliases, Jane’s fury, and the film’s playful disregard for logic.

The episode plays as a conversational review of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with spoiler talk, background recollections, and John testing his earlier indifference against Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and the rom-com-action setup.

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A spoiler-heavy Mr. and Mrs. Smith review that turns into a very British argument about aliases, logic, and charm.

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