If you like your comedies dizzying, smart, silly and Coen country-fried, then The Ladykillers is an absolute must-see!
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03/25/04
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Ladykillers (2004)
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Reviews Counted:182
Fresh:100
Rotten:82
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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Reviews for Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is funny. Or, as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr would say it, it’s an exorbitantly capricious motion picture presentation that has a lithe, whimsical air.
03/25/04
An interesting collection of character work, ultimately The Ladykillers is a disappointment.
03/25/04
Hanks has never been better than he is here, as a Colonel Sanders with fake teeth who constantly uses 40 words when two or three would do just fine.
03/25/04
One's ability to enjoy The Ladykillers is directly proportionate to one's willingness to accept the incredibly broad performances.
03/25/04
A Fargo without that crucial, defining final speech about the beauty of a new day dawning.
03/24/04
In the end, this is a disappointing Coen bros movie.
03/24/04
Has a good chance at being the year's funniest film--and the only one with an English Bulldog wearing a gas mask. Tom Hanks gives the funniest performance of his career.
03/24/04
Smug comedy.
03/24/04
[It] isn’t just a misfire, it’s an annoying misfire, irksome, tedious, and on the whole, unnecessary.
03/24/04
'The Ladykillers in Big Momma's House'...a film that, despite some inspired moments, is alternately arch and crude.
03/24/04
Imperfections aside, "Ladykillers" is still a great deal of fun: excellent costuming, sweet cinematography, strong direction, and wonderfully crisp quirky dialogue.
03/24/04
Only lip service is paid to the heist, as the Coen Brothers are far more interested in milking the foibles and idiosyncrasies of their cast of lowbrow clowns.
03/24/04
I’ve been waiting a long time for Tom Hanks to return to comedy. It looks like I’m going to keep on waiting.
03/23/04
A reach for artistic merit gets lost on the way to strained exaggeration.
03/23/04
A productive failure that’s silly rather than sophisticated. We’re engaged by its oddities, but never really entertained.
03/23/04
Clever? Sometimes. Funny? No.
03/23/04
Joel and Ethan Coen's disappointing The Ladykillers is too trifling to be taken seriously, and too routine to inspire hilarity.
03/22/04
The Coens' remake of a comedy classic flounders amid extreme caricatures and stained humor.
03/18/04
Top CriticHanks' first comic performance in more than a decade (and one of the best performances of his career).
03/16/04
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