The Whole Ten Yards (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Fun, but not very funny (Pt II)
Review: The first movie was diverting fun, with some surprises - and this sequel follows up with less of the same.

In the last movie, Nick "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) was a dentist and often reluctant conspirator of on-the-run hitman Jimmy "Tulip" Tudeski (Willis), as the contract killer lies low in Canada. At the end of the last movie, Oz married with Jimmy's ex-wife Cynthia (Henstrige) while Jimmy ran off with Jill (Peet), Oz's assistant who turned out to be a contract killer hired by Oz's wife to kill him. It was diverting fun, which looked more like it was more fun to make than it was to watch.

In "Ten Yards", Oz and Jimmy remain married but not quite happily. Oz is a wealthy dentist in Brentwood, CA, but his home less a castle than an embattled fortress oozing with high-tech security devices and dripping with assault weapons. Jimmy has gone the other direction - setting himself up in a Mexican hacienda, becoming an obsessive domestic god while leaving Jill to do the whacking. Needless to say it's an arrangement that doesn't make their wives any happier, especially Jill who, skills aside, only accidentally kills her victims.

Complicating things for everybody is Lazlo Gogolak - the father of Yanni Gogolak from the last movie (both being east-European gangsters played by Kevin Pollak) - who is determined to kill everybody from the last movie.

The humor is scattershot. It's clear that the guys who made this flick are as mystified to the sucess of the last movie as we are, and they've just thrown the leads together hopinng to repeat its sucess, and ramped things up a notch just to remind us that this is a sequel. Willis seems more hair-triggered
psychotic than the last time (and we must wonder twice as often whether Willis will kill Oz) while Oz seems even twice as clutzy as before. Henstridge gets kidnapped early, so her scenes are fewer. Pollack is actually more funny here than in "nine yards" but the script surrounds him with one-note morons that the movie has no interest in developing. There are scenes that are supposed to be either funny or scary, and it seems that the writers were as mystified as the rest of us, hoping that Perry's adorable dopiness and Willis's homididal charm would acrry the way. How much you enjoy this flick will depend on how much you enjoyed the last movie.

Rating:
Summary: Amazing Cast-Mediocre Movie
Review: The Whole Ten Yards was quite a disappointment, considering the success of the first film and the make up of the cast.
The acting is pretty good (but nothing great), the humor is very poor, and the plot is just average.
Matthew Perry getting hit and smacked around got tiring and annoying very early on. As for the "idiot" Hungarian mafia family, it was just SAD and not funny at all!
Though the potential for a great movie was definitely there it fails to take off. A shame really...
In a nutshell, it's an ok movie, and that's about it; it lacks that extra something to put it over the top. No masterpiece here.


Rating:
Summary: A Proverbial "Train Wreck".... Only Without the Train
Review: There is no other way to explain why this movie was so spectacularly bad except through analogy.

We are all familair with the concept of "it's so bad it's good" when it comes to bad movies. You look at a movie and think, "Man, this is bad!" But you don't look away. In the end, you conclude that it was so bad it was good.

"The Whole Ten Yards" is like a train wreck... only without the train. It's like the Train company taking out a full page ad in the newspaper to tell everyone that there will be a train wreck at the railroad junction at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday. And you know how it is with train wrecks - they're bad but you just can't look away. Anyway, the people of our town get ready for the 5 PM train wreck. They get blankets and camp out and picnic waiting for the train wreck. They toss the football around and eat cheese and drink wine. Finally, 5:00 approaches and they get ready... and ready... and ready... and 5:00 passes and no train wreck. Minutes pass and people are waiting in postponed anticipation. A half hour passes and people start to get annoyed. An hour passes and people start to leave.... but not all of them. A few remain for 4 hours waiting for the promised train wreck but none occurs - the only thing wrecked was their Saturday afternoon expectations.

The plot was vacant and meandering. The characters (all the holdovers from "The Whole Nine Yards" plus Kevin Pollack playing "Lazlo Goglak" the father to the troublesome gangster in "The Whole Nine Yards" also played by Pollack) suffer immensely. In "The Whole Nine Yards" they were tightly written and well-developed. In this movie, they have become perverse and stunted. The characters and the actors who play them have no idea as to the character's motivation. The plot resolution is both predicitable and preposterous.

At the end, the viewer is wondering why he had waited to see this movie with eager anticipation and angry at having been cheated of the adept comedy which was part of "The Whole Nine Yards." Those who stopped watching before the end of the movie did so because they were convinced (much like the above mentioned train watchers) that this movie would never deliver on its comedic promise. Those who lasted until the end held out hope that the movie would deliver what it promised only to be bitterly disappointed with the result.

Woe to the trusting potential viewer who believes the promises made by this movie. Pity those who have come to learn that "The Whole Ten Yards" is as bland as it is derivative with its ruined characters and its unintelligibly pointless plot.

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Summary: A Fun Movie - but nowhere near as good as the first!
Review: This movie is the sequel to a really funny comedy (The Whole Nine Yards) that was full of intrigue and had a cast that worked extremely well together! While most of the same cast is in The Whole Ten Yards, I had significant trouble following the story and was very disappointed in the characters. The lovable former hitman 'Jimmy the Tulip' played by Bruce Willis - was just awful - he wasn't funny or likable - which is just not Bruce Willis. Matthew Perry as the bumbling dentist is stilted and unbelievable and even Jill (Amanda Peet) who was a really cool hitman wannabe in the first movie - became a total incompetent.

I really hate to say it, but this film is almost embarrassing to watch - at a minimum it has a very hard-to-follow story line. While there are some good parts, they are few and far between.

If you want to watch it just because you really enjoyed the first one - I say, "go for it"! But, if you haven't seen the Whole Nine Yards yet - definitely go watch that one instead!

Rating:
Summary: A great movie
Review: This movie was really good. The Whole Nine yards was an instant classic and now that i waited soo long fot this one. I'm glad it was good. Just as good as the first. I highly recomend that you buy it.

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Summary: A Poor Excuse for a Stupid Comedy!
Review: Yeah! Even worse than being a lame excuse for a movie! This is a disgrace to bad movies everywhere (except the awful and stupid: Barbershop, Noises Off, Master of Duisguise and Bio-Dome). I watched this with some of my friends who said it was really funny. So you might think that they have an immature sense of humour or a underdeveloped brain or something like that but one of them is actually a 98 average student, he laughed hysterically at things that didn't even make me chuckle, things that didn't even make me smile. Its almost like someone said the actors would die if they didn't return for a sequel. An old lady fartine just isn't funny anymore guys! The stupid jokes that that old guy kept saying sounded more forced than anything I have ever heared in my life. Lets face it, none of us had high expectations for this movie. I had very low expectations, but even mine were let down. Poor script, bad directing and forced acting aren't funny and Bruce Willis looks like a cute little potato puff. On to the next product I guess!