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Summary: Laugh-Free Comedy That Makes You Sleep
Review: 'The Whole Nine Yards' was not a classic, but made with a surprisingly refreshing tone. The story was unpredictable -- about the ex-hitman and the timid dentist, and some unique characters (including a hitwoman wannabe Amanda Peet). Now, they made a sequel to it, but frankly, do we need it? Or can they really do it when the original was based on the premise you can use just for one time?
The results are lame, tired, even miserable comedy that is not funny at all. Bruce Willis comes back as Jimmy the Tulip, whose life is now, again, in danger because a mafia boss Lazlo is out of jail, who is played by Kevin Pollack. Many characters you saw in 'The Whole Nine Yards' return (not Mr. Duncan, though) But the central story is about the new baddie Lazlo (buried in a heavy make-up) who happens to be the father of the baddie of the original, played by the same Kevin Pollack.
This is the same ruse used in the sequel of 'City Slickers' -- once charming characters, after put in the right places at the end of the original film, are called back simply because another film must be made. Bruce Willis 'must' act like silly, because he was not before; Matthew Perry (as the same dentist Oz) 'must' act like silly because he believes somebody must kill him, the plot nobody believes now. Amanda Peet 'must' act like silly for, well, she has nothing to do this time (except for some bumbling 'jobs'); and most damagingly, Natasha Henstrige 'must' sleepwalk all through the new film simply because her role is nothing but a poor excuse for kidnapping plot, which is pointless and thrillless.
In one earlier scene, Bruce Willis, now in Mexico, appears with tired face, wearing a pair of fluffy, bunny shoes. This is the same thing as Christopher Walken did in 'Country Bears' and that's a bad sign indeed. You know, these films are shamelessly craving for laughs, which they will never get in this so obvious fashion. And as the film goes on, the cast raise the voice (see the scene in a bar), and speak out loud the long, winding, not-so-funny dialogues you can never remember after ten seconds. Well I didn't because I fell asleep. Sorry.
One thing I should praise is that even in this mess, Bruce Willis retains his charisma to some extent. I still don't know whether or not he can really act, like Keanu, but he is unmistakeably a star. In this case, however, that only makes this film more unwatchable.
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Summary: Almost as rib-tickling as "Taxi Driver"
Review: At last! "The Whole Ten Yards," that long-awaited, eagerly anticipated sequel to "The Whole Nine Yards," is finally here. Let's just pray no one is seriously hurt in the stampede to the video store. What's that? You honestly haven't been on pins and needles for the past four years, dreaming of the day when Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry would once again share the screen? You're not alone: "Ten" is another pointless sequel that can be tossed in the "thanks, but no thanks" bin, alongside "Analyze That," "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" and the blink-and-you-missed-it "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights." "Ten" deserves at least passing mention, however, as one of the sloppiest pieces of hackwork to be put out by a major studio recently. In fact, this flaccid comedy's only laughs come from its sheer ineptitude. Check out the scene in which a character's cigarette is lit in one shot, then is miraculously unlit seconds later and relit again a moment after that. Or how Perry drives home at sunset, arrives at his home in darkness and escapes a few minutes later into mid-morning light. Did editor Seth Flaum make mincemeat out of this movie, or did he merely splice together the scrambled footage director Howard Deutch turned in? Willis returns as hired gun Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski, now living a quiet life in Mexico with wife Jill (Amanda Peet), whose own career as a killer isn't working out as smoothly as she hoped. They both get a chance to exercise their trigger fingers again when Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge), the wife of dentist Oz Oseransky (Perry), is allegedly kidnaped by the henchmen of fresh-out-of-prison mobster Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak). That crime sets the stage for Oz to become his hyperactive, accident-prone self once more -- and the sight of Perry taking pratfalls lost its novelty long ago -- and for Jimmy and Jill to trade insults and threats almost continually, as if they were playing in a kind of low-rent production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with revolvers in place of the overflowing glasses of booze. Ponderously paced and atrociously written, George Gallo's screenplay is so incoherent and inconsistent it might have been pasted together from the rough drafts of four completely different storylines. While Oz remains a blithering dolt from start to finish (and we're expected to believe that a go-getter like Cynthia somehow finds this incredibly sexy), everyone else's personality seems to change with whatever the scene requires. Much is made of Jimmy wearing a skirt, bunny slippers and a headscarf and behaving like Martha Stewart in the beginning of the film, but those eccentricities evaporate quickly and never re-appear. As for humor, Gallo offers such rib-ticklers as a little girl with a foul mouth, a crook who mispronounces every other word he says, and the sight of Jimmy beating a dad unconscious while his young son watches. A shaven-headed Willis grimaces and grits his teeth through the entire film, making Jimmy about as adorably wacky as Travis Bickle. And why not? After all, "The Whole Ten Yards" is almost as rib-tickling as "Taxi Driver."
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Summary: Good movie, but bad dvd
Review: I bought this on Tuesday and finally watched it last night. I liked it but not as much as i liked the first one. I was very upset that there are no special features except commentary and some trailers. There could have at least been a gag reel or deleted scenes. Because I watched the trailer and the movie and there were some things that were not in the movie that were in the trailer. I think people should see it. Amanda peet and natasha hendridge are hot.
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Summary: ten yards, but no first down...
Review: I really enjoyed The Whole Nine Yards, but this sequel was a letdown, not to mention unnecessary in the first place. There's a few worthwhile moments, but overall the movie screams "money grab". The various head games Bruce Willis plays was funny in the original, but feels sorta recycled here. It might be worth checking out if you come across it while channel surfing, but otherwise you should probably save your cash for something else...
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Summary: What you talkin' about, Willis?
Review: I'll tell you what he's talkin' about - a whole extra yard of movie fun, Baby!
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Summary: A perfect companion to my FAVORITE movie!
Review: My husband and I have seen The Whole Nine Yards at least three dozen times, it is absolutely hysterical! So when the sequel came out we rushed to see it and were not disappointed! I LOVED this movie! I laughed so hard I was in pain! However, the movie won't mean a thing to you if you haven't seen and loved the first. It is a dark comedy with twists and turns that keep you guessing. (What is up with the people that say it was confusing! Yes, you actually have to pay attention and maybe even see it twice!) Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry make an incredible team. My only complaint is the crude language & sex jokes were over the top. (So NO kids around for this flic.) So if you loved the first this is a MUST SEE!
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Summary: Better than watching paint dry... barely.
Review: The first movie (...Nine Yards) was entertaining. This one is - or should be - an embarrassment to everyone involved in its production. They should have called it "One More Yard", since it is about 1/10 as good as the first one. When the actors are interviewed in the future, this should be the answer to the question "What is the worst movie you ever made?". With all due respect, I have to believe that anyone who writes a positive review of this movie is either not sober, or stands to make money from it in some way.
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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.
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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.
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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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