Ladykillers (2004)
55 %
Reviews Counted: 181 Fresh: 100 Rotten:81 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus:
Hanks' performance in the lead role is inspired, but this is a relatively minor offering from the Coen brothers.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 26, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $39,671,084
Synopsis: It is always difficult to try to recreate a classic movie, so Joel and Ethan Coen took the premise of Alexander Mackendrick's beloved 1955 Ealing Studio caper comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, as the basis for coming up with their own entertaining and bizarre remake. Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Screenwriter: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Producer: Barry Josephson, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tom Jacobson, Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Carter Burwell, T-Bone Burnett
Screenwriter: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Producer: Barry Josephson, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tom Jacobson, Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Carter Burwell, T-Bone Burnett
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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.
08/18/07
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.
05/02/07
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.
09/29/06
While being far from the Coens' finest hour, it remains more intelligent and ambitious than most of what currently passes for Hollywood mainstream comedy.
06/24/06
Good but not great, The Ladykillers is simple, somewhat funny and 'nothing more.'
12/06/05
... second-tier Coen brothers ... technically excellent and never less than entertaining, it doesn't arrest and stun the way Miller's Crossing or Fargo or Raising Arizona did.
01/27/05
That sophisticated stride that made [the Coen Brothers'] first run of films so remarkable has here degenerated into a sophomoric stumble.
12/31/04
The Ladykillers contains several gross errors of judgment that must have given the Coens at least some degree of hesitation at some point in the filmmaking process.
09/08/04
It's both lowdown and effete, a jamboree of whoopee jokes and sick wit.
08/07/04
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THE LADYKILLERS features a lot of Tom Hanks & only a few laughs, why is that? (SLAP!)
by: Darko, Donnie 7/9/06
by: Darko, Donnie 7/9/06
Is this the year all the classics get remade...almost as much fun as colorizing, eh?
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by: THE spammer - NO mercy! 1/6/05
Is this the year all the classics get remade...almost as much fun as colorizing, eh?
by: THE spammer - NO mercy! 1/6/05
by: THE spammer - NO mercy! 1/6/05
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