YMMV / Hancock

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The infamous scene in the prison where Hancock beats two inmates in a fight by 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?)
• Broken Base: Which half of the movie is better: the Black Comedy 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 Actually Pretty Funny. One critic described it as "the best first half of a movie and the worst second half of a movie ever".
• Complete Monster: Kenneth "Red" Parker Jr. is a brilliant psychologist-turned-ruthless bank robber who becomes Hancock's most personal foe. Introduced to the film by taking dozens of hostages—including 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 Satellite Love Interest in the process.
• Crosses the Line Twice: 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 absurdity of it.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Many people consider the original script, which is consistently gritty and has Hancock experiencing suidicial tendencies, as superior to the finished film.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • 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 this movie's lead as the guy he would want to play him in a future biopic.
  • The whole premise of the movie is pretty hilarious by itself, by anyone who was read or watched One-Punch Man, as both Hancock and Saitama has similar backgrounds, albeit Saitama got his powers by training really hard for three years and breaking his limiter, compared with Hancock, who is immortal. Hell, both of them even have done impossibly awesome while on the Moon!
• Never Live It Down: Most people just know this as that superhero movie with Will Smith that feels like two completely different movies stitched together. And in the first half, a guy gets his head shoved up another guy's ass.
• Retroactive Recognition: Johnny Galecki makes a very brief appearance at the restaurant scene greeting Hancock. Although he had been a recurring character on Roseanne, this was before becoming a lot more well-known from his role in The Big Bang Theory which had started just the year prior. He's even 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.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: 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 Black Comedy Decon-Recon Switch to a dramatic tragic love story. As described above in Broken Base, this did not sit well with a large portion of the viewer-base, who felt this sudden Mood Whiplash was dragging the movie down. It doesn't help that Mary is pretty much a Satellite Love Interest and that she and Hancock don't even get together at the end of the movie, making the whole affair feel pointless.
• Signature Scene: The moment where Hancock shoves one prisoner's head up another's ass.
• Squick: "Your head is going up his ass." And dear God, 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."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: 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.
• Uncertain Audience: 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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