The film is a solid remake and full of new surprises - although not quite the must-see film I’d hoped for.
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03/31/04
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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
Pure Coen, endlessly stylized and full of gloriously overwritten dialogue, heartily delivered by an inspired ensemble cast.
03/30/04
... a mean, nasty, mostly laughless 104 minutes spent in dogged pursuit of an ironic cause that’s as subtle as a falling gargoyle’s head.
03/30/04
There's the mind-numbing oompah rhythm of every gag telegraphed and every joke pounded into the ground.
03/30/04
Top CriticThe juxtaposition of southern Gothic touches, rap and the professor's effete Svengali vibe is ineffectual.
03/29/04
The Ladykillers might improve when it becomes an in-flight movie. With its unnecessary foul language deleted, it wouldn’t fall so short of its potential.
03/29/04
Most of this stuff isn’t worthy of the Farrelly brothers, let alone the Coen brothers.
03/29/04
Top CriticUninvolving and tedious rendition of the 1955 British classic, film is too slow at the gate with longwinded speeches bogging down the momentum.
03/29/04
A mirthful and twisted meditation on crime that’s reminiscent in theme to the Coen’s Fargo and Blood Simple.
03/28/04
Moviegoers haven't seen Tom Hanks this funny since 'Forrest Gump.'
03/28/04
It's the Coens being flashy instead of truly funny, and much of the problem stems from Hanks' bizarrely over-the-top performance.
03/28/04
The fun outweighs the leaden cartoonishness, but not by a lot
03/28/04
There are a number of enormous, laugh-out-loud moments throughout, enough to mark it as one of the better comedies in recent memory.
03/27/04
To paraphrase Prof. Dorr: "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" - it has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. But the gospel soundtrack is a keeper.
03/27/04
Fits snugly among the Coens' lighter and breezier movies -- the ones you forget after you see them once and begin to appreciate and finally adore the more often you revisit them.
03/27/04
Structured like a Mad magazine parody where there's a promised joke in each frame. It doesn't add up to a movie.
03/27/04
The remake -- which could have been shot anywhere and probably was filmed on a studio back lot -- has almost nothing coherent to say about Mississippi, though it does recycle a few cliches.
03/27/04
Top CriticI think you'll find it had some physical comedy that worked and some Coen brothers shticks and caricatures drawn that were zany enough to amuse in spurts.
03/26/04
... [this] update seems bloated and sluggish, packed with outlandish, arbitrarily exaggerated detail. To borrow one of Prof. Dorr's favorite adjectives, it's rococo.
03/26/04
Now why it is the wont of would-be criminal masterminds in things like this to employ morons? Sheesh!
03/26/04
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