Leave it to the Coen Brothers to do a remake of yet another heist movie that is actually worth your time. One of the funniest films I've seen in years.
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03/26/04
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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
Most of the gags are repeated from old time sources, and they're repeated over and over again.
03/26/04
Should give just about everyone who sees it a few laughs. But it will appeal most strongly to viewers who think Tom Hanks, who plays a thief and a potential murderer, can do no wrong.
03/26/04
Although The Ladykillers is a skillfully executed caper movie, the fun lies not in its mechanics but in its characterizations, especially Hanks's and Hall's, and especially when they're together.
03/26/04
Those seeking a quirky and clever comedy should hightail it to The Ladykillers forthwith.
03/26/04
A leaden, tone-deaf remake.
03/26/04
Not quite top-drawer Coen Bros., but good enough to make you wish it were, The Ladykillers is a case of being grateful for small pleasures.
03/26/04
Top CriticPlaying is the operative word since the visual whimsy gets equal billing with a mordant wit that's too much fun to be easily summed up as mere black comedy.
03/26/04
This is the clumsiest, crudest and most pandering of all [the Coen brothers'] films.
03/26/04
Never settles into an assured rhythm, and instead the actors always seem to be pushing, putting the hard sell on an audience that, however distracted by the strenuousness of the sales pitch, still isn't buying.
03/26/04
Top CriticYou can enjoy the Coen-ucopia of doodles.
03/26/04
You may go into this film to see Hanks back in top comic form, but I guarantee you will walk out raving about Irma P. Hall and Pickles.
03/26/04
Tom Hanks and the Coen brothers revisit "The Ladykillers"... you'll either love it or hate it... I'm in the first category.
03/26/04
Hanks delivers a gem of pure comic inspiration.
03/26/04
One of those Coen brothers comedies wherein their elaborate vision takes on a weight that seems to prevent comic liftoff.
03/26/04
One of the most bizarre performances of Tom Hanks' long and illustrious career.
03/26/04
The Coens have taken what's timeless about the 1955 movie, rolled it around in their endlessly inventive comic minds and made it distinctly, and riotously, their own.
03/26/04
With its riotous blowhards, visual gags, inventive camera work and florid language played for laughs, Ladykillers slays.
03/26/04
Suddenly the Coen Brothers, of all people, seem to be playing it safe.
03/26/04
Top CriticIt has all the elements of a classic Coen comedy - the more times you see it the funnier it becomes.
03/26/04
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