The Ladykillers (2004)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 186
Fresh: 102 | Rotten: 84
Hanks' performance in the lead role is inspired, but this is a relatively minor offering from the Coen brothers.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 22
Hanks' performance in the lead role is inspired, but this is a relatively minor offering from the Coen brothers.
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One of the best-loved films from the idiosyncratic British film studio Ealing Pictures gets an update from the equally idiosyncratic filmmaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen in this offbeat comedy. Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall) is a spry, elderly woman who attends church regularly, doesn't care for loud noises or harsh language, and is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Enter Goldthwait Higginson Dorr (Tom Hanks), a silver-tongued college professor who moves in and gains Munson's
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Tom Hanks
Goldthwait Higginson Do... -
Marlon Wayans
Gawain MacSam -
J.K. Simmons
Garth Pancake -
Irma P. Hall
Marva Munson -
Tzi Ma
The General -
Ryan Hurst
Lump Hudson -
George Wallace (II)
The Sheriff -
Diane Delano
Mountain Girl -
Stephen Root
Fernand Gudge -
Jason Weaver
Weemack Funthes -
Greg Grunberg
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All Critics (193) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (109) | Rotten (87) | DVD (34)
The Ladykillers is small and compact -- it doesn't kill, it's just a doodle -- but it's a very pleasant cartoon for grown-ups. It's some sweet fodder.
Top CriticWhile being far from the Coens' finest hour, it remains more intelligent and ambitious than most of what currently passes for Hollywood mainstream comedy.
It's both lowdown and effete, a jamboree of whoopee jokes and sick wit.
Everybody in and around this movie is trying too hard.
There's the mind-numbing oompah rhythm of every gag telegraphed and every joke pounded into the ground.
Most of this stuff isn't worthy of the Farrelly brothers, let alone the Coen brothers.
Some wicked pleasures for mature teens and adults.
Hanks is looser and funnier than he has been in quite some time.
Despite cartoonish characters, over-the-top hijinks, and occasional lapses of bad taste, any movie that leaves you laughing up the aisle, has to remain well-recommended.
The story, adapted by the Coens themselves, is reduced to a series of hoops the characters must jump through to prove just how strange they are.
Good but not great, The Ladykillers is simple, somewhat funny and 'nothing more.'
The picture ranks with the brothers' best mid level output.
A lukewarm live-action Loony Tunes cartoon.
Audience Reviews for The Ladykillers
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- Goldthwait Higginson Dorr: And what, to flog a horse, that if not dead is at this point in mortal danger of expiring, does this little square represent?
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- Marva Munson: There's a stranger in our midst come to destroy us.
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- Goldthwait Higginson Dorr: Y'all know what smote is! I smite! You smite! He smites! We done smote!
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