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The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

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Reviews Counted:113

Fresh:5

Rotten:108

Average Rating:2.7/10

Consensus: A strained, laugh-free sequel, The Whole Ten Yards recycles its predecessor’s cast and plot but not its wit or reason for being.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Retired hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (BRUCE WILLIS) is enjoying the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico. Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by onetime neighbor and friend... Retired hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (BRUCE WILLIS) is enjoying the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico. Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by onetime neighbor and friend Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, D.D.S. (MATTHEW PERRY) at the end of The Whole Nine Yards, Jimmy double-crossed the Gogolak gang and escaped the Feds by faking his own death. Now, secure in his Baja hideaway, Jimmy has traded in his shotgun for a dust buster and is learning to channel his natural intensity into more domestic pursuits like cleaning, decorating and perfecting his culinary skills while working through some of the personal issues that led him to a life of crime. Meanwhile, his wife Jill (AMANDA PEET), an idealistic wannabe assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit, dreams of the good old days when the only thing her wild man Jimmy cared about wiping up was evidence. Suddenly, an uninvited guest shows up on the Tudeskis' doorstep. It's Oz, breathless and desperate, begging them to help rescue his wife, Cynthia (NATASHA HENSTRIDGE), who has been kidnapped by the Gogolaks. Jimmy couldn't be less interested. It's not his job anymore. But before he can toss Oz out on his ear, more gate-crashers arrive. Newly paroled mob boss Lazlo Gogolak (KEVIN POLLAK) and his goons have followed the naïve dentist down from L.A. and right into Jimmy's front yard. All that crazy old Lazlo has been thinking about in jail is how he's going to get even with Jimmy for knocking off his favorite son, Yanni, and how he's going to fix that conniving Oz for helping him get away with it. Now Jimmy, Oz and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards - and then some - to save Cynthia, teach Lazlo a lesson and keep one step ahead of the mounting mayhem in this sequel to the 2000 hit comedy The Whole Nine Yards. [More]

Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet

Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak

Director: Howard Deutch

Director: Howard Deutch
Screenwriter: George Gallo
Story: Mitchell Kapner
Producer: David Willis, Allan Kaufman, Elie Samaha, Arnold Rifkin
Composer: John Debney
Studio: Warner Bros.

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The script is so bland it barely musters a whole ten laughs.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine
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98 minutes of mirth-free entertainment.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/22/04
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
BBC
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Utterly pointless sequel that fails to generate even a single laugh.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
06/19/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Somehow I doubt we'll be seeing 'The Whole Eleven Yards'.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
06/05/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Unfunny, badly acted, and made solely for the purposes of big paychecks this film is just utterly embarrassing and nonsensical. This is mindless drivel, without being able to call itself a guilty pleasure.

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Proof that most sequels should be avoided, "The Whole Ten Yards" vaporizes the humor of its superior 1999 precursor.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/19/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Mostly overacted and overblown, the script tries to make 'outlandish' into outrageous but hardly ever manages it. Missing is the element of some discernible sense of reality that is essential to black comedy.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

Every joke is stretched to the breaking point, and no one seems to be having any fun.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/08/07
Hank Sartin
Hank Sartin
Chicago Reader

While most sequels have nowhere to go, this sequel has nowhere it wants to go, and while most movie failures are unoriginal, this mess is simply uninspired.

Full Review Source: Zertinet Movies | comment Comment
10/05/05
Steven Snyder
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies

Just rent Sexy Beast.

Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | comment Comment
12/19/04
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

One must ask why sequels such as this come to be.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
09/16/04
Mark Collette
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Através de uma edição ligeira, procura nos convencer de que algo engraçado está acontecendo e que há uma dinâmica autêntica entre seus personagens. Não há e não está.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
07/22/04
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Please, please, please. I'm begging you, Hollywood: Don't even think about making The Whole Eleven Yards.

Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
06/22/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Nowhere near as good as the first film, and that one wasn't too brilliant either.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
05/08/04
Peter Lowry
Peter Lowry
Film Threat

A lazy, dumb, irrelevant sequel to 2000's "The Whole Nine Yards." It gathers together most of its predecessor's cast and puts out a contract on their careers.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
04/30/04
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Because the cast is having so much fun, it’s hard to blame them when the film becomes almost persistently unfunny.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
04/24/04
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

Disoriented by characters always shooting and yelling at him, Chandler spends the film tripping over furniture and slamming into doors.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
04/22/04
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Why do movies like this happen?

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
04/19/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

The Whole Ten Yards is so unspeakably awful that I swear I felt precious brain cells melting away as my eyes took in the horror.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
04/19/04
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

Don't compromise yourself or your happy memories of the Whole Nine Yards by seeing this one.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
04/18/04
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina
 
 
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