Be Cool (2005)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 169
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 119
Be Cool is tepid, square, and lukewarm; as a parody of the music business, it has two left feet.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 34
Be Cool is tepid, square, and lukewarm; as a parody of the music business, it has two left feet.
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Underworld hipster Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (once again played by John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster
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Cast
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John Travolta
Chili Palmer -
Uma Thurman
Edie Athens -
Vince Vaughn
Raji -
Cedric the Entertainer
Sin La Salle -
André Benjamin
Dabu -
Steven Tyler
Himself -
Robert Pastorelli
Joe Loop -
Christina Milian
Linda Moon -
Paul Adelstein
Hy Gordon -
Debi Mazar
Marla -
Greg Alan Williams
Darryl -
Harvey Keitel
Nick Carr -
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Elliot Wilhelm -
Danny DeVito
Martin Weir -
James Woods
Tommy Athens -
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Kimberly J. Brown
Tiffany -
Taboo
Himself -
Minae Noji
Miss Bangkok
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All Critics (180) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (126) | DVD (29)
I was really glad when it was over.
Top CriticOne of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers.
You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'
Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.
The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.
It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.
Be Cool isn't the biting satire that Get Shorty was. It's lighter, hipper, and, yes, more fun.
Be Cool sounds like it should be good, or at least entertaining, but it's neither. It does have some genuinely fun moments, but lacks a strong narrative to hang them off of. The result is empty, full of contrivances, and ultimately unsatisfying.
Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.
Self-mocking jokes prevail in F. Gary Gray's feisty cinematic version of Elmore Leonard's irreverent Los Angeles based novel.
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