As good as Jon Hamm has been on shows like “Mad Men,” he’s struggled to find a big-screen leading role that knew what to do with his magnetism and mischievous streak—until now.
Still, despite his diverse skill set and marquee good looks, he’s yet to find an ideal big-screen leading part—until, that is,, a reboot of the film franchise made famous in the 1980s by Chevy Chase that provides him with the role he was born to play.
Eschewing Chase’s daffy cartoonishness for a more sardonic air of unflappable confidence and disguise-wielding cleverness, Hamm turns out to be a perfect Fletch. Wearing the character’s trademark Lakers baseball cap and white sneakers—when, that is, he’s not taking his shoes off to parade around in bare feet, much to everyone else’s discomfort—Hamm is at once clueless and cool, scheming and spontaneous, flying by the seat of his pants and totally sure of himself.
is bursting with distinctively amusing personalities, which also include Annie Mumolo as a ridiculously oblivious and chatty neighbor and Hamm’sIt’s difficult to remember a recent American comedy with so many strong supporting performances, much less one that spins them around a headliner who’s as nonchalantly magnetic as Hamm is as the preternaturally unperturbed Fletch.
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