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DVD The Whole Ten Yards (Widescreen Edition)
Bruce Willis turns on the charm in The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to the surprisingly popular The Whole Nine Yards. Willis returns as Jimmy "the Tulip," a former professional hitman, now living in Mexico with his bride Jill (Amanda Peet, Igby Goes Down), while his former neighbor Oz (Matthew Perry) lives happily with Jimmy's ex-wife Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge, Species). When mobster Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak, The Usual Suspects) kidnaps Cynthia to get revenge on Jimmy, Oz has to seek out Jimmy for help--only to eventually discover that there's some incomprehensible secret plan at work. The Whole Ten Yards was created purely because the previous movie made money; the sequel makes not an iota of sense. Willis coasts by on raw charisma, everyone else flounders (Henstridge seems completely bored). Fans of the first movie, however, may enjoy revisiting these antic characters. --Bret Fetzer
Review(s): DVD The Whole Ten Yards (Widescreen Edition)
A Paltry Shadow of the Original
Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas Oz Oseransky, retired hitman Jimmy The Tulip Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep: it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife from the Hungarian mob. To complicate matters even further, the men, who are out to get Oz, are led by Lazlo Gogolak, a childhood rival of Jimmy's and another notorious hitman. Oz, Jimmy and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards--and then some--to manage the mounting Mafioso mayhem.
There isn't much about this film to enjoy. I was hoping it would be a lot funnier than it was, but I just didn't laugh at anything except Kevin Pollack's character who was hard to understand most of the time. I had no problem with the cast, I enjoyed all of their performances. Especially Kevin Pollack and Natasha Henstridge who really made the film at least somewhat watchable. If only Bruce Willis could have had more funny lines, or Matthew Perry been a little funnier, or if Amanda Peet...wait there's nothing wrong with her. Anyway, I can only recommend this to someone who likes the cast but not necessarily the story, otherwise, this movie gets a 5 out of 10 because they did try...to some degree.
Not a bad sequel
As a huuuuge fan of "The Whole Nine Yards" I knew that there was no way ANY sequel would ever match the comedy and plot twists as the first. This being said, I went into this film with minimal expectations.
Well, this movie turned out better than I had hoped. The cast is still fun to watch and the story, aalthough a little confusing at times, is still plausable and symetric with the first movie.
Matthew Perry plays 'Oz', a dentist, who recently married 'Cymthia', 'Jimmy the Tulips'(Bruce Willis) ex-wife. Picking up where he left off in the original, Perry is hilarious in this film. 'Oz' is a very scared man after all that he had been thru in the first film; and, Perry plays this to perfection. WHile this role for 'Oz' is different than the first; where he played a Dentist who simply had no clue what was happening around him; it still works with the plot and is a pleasant change-of-pace for the sequel. 'Oz' has decided to arm his house with guns and monitor the perimeter with cameras. This drives his wife, 'Cynthia' mad to the point where she goes behind his back and plots an inheritance heist with her ex-husband 'Jimmy'. NAturally, the the 'heist' involves both 'Oz' and hitwoman-wannabe, 'Jill'(Amanda Peat).
The plot involves 'Yanni Gogalack's' father, threatening 'Oz' and kidnapping 'Cynthia' for information as to the whereabouts of 'Jimmy'(or Yimmy') as the 'Gogalacks' always say. The rest of the movie is basically the unraveling of the planned 'heist'.
Amanda Peat is great in this film, as is her character 'Jill'. IN this one, they play-out the fact that she wants to be a professional hit-woman and continuously screws up potential 'jobs'. Sh eplays the role well, albeit the fact that this is a 'cheesy' comedy.
Bruce Willis is good and believable as 'Jimmy', but 'Jimmy' is pretending to be psychaotic thruoughout most of the film and it does get a little annoying after awhile.
Matthew Perry makes this film, much as he did the first. He is constantly being picked-on by 'Jimmy' and he just takes it all in stride so well. He's really funny in this film.
ALl-in-all I would recommend this film, but DO NOT expect anything near as good as the first.
What a shame....!
This movies is not bad. It's worse than that, it is.... useless. Yes, I asted 98 minutes of my life watching it (otherwise I would not review it!), but I advise you to not do so. It's really weak, the onnly average performance is by Willis, who seems to be having fun. The rest of the cast is lost inside a screenplay that has abolutely nothing to offer.
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