While the portrayal is an unabashed caricature, Hanks has paradoxically never seemed so at ease in a role ruled by dialect. It's a performance to savor.
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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
For those who share my taste in comedy, this is a must-not-miss.
03/26/04
Top Critica miscalculation from start to finish... it just lays there on the screen, flailing sadly and futilely, like a fly trapped in a pool of molasses.
03/26/04
It features a turn from the great Tom Hanks that is so thoroughly unlike anything he has ever done ... that it makes the movie required viewing.
03/26/04
Hanks hasn't cut loose in a comedy like this in years.
03/26/04
Top CriticFor all its idiosyncratic thrusts and jabs, the movie never takes off.
03/26/04
Top CriticProbably the Coens' best since O Brother. It's certainly their most consistently entertaining film since then.
03/26/04
Hanks appears to be having the time of his life.
03/26/04
Expertly crafted nonsense from an unmistakable source.
03/25/04
Tom Hanks and the Coen brothers team up for a remake that's so much less than the sum of the parts.
03/25/04
Buy the soundtrack now, rent the movie later -- this is minor Coen in a major key.
03/25/04
Hanks comes through with a cheerfully ridiculous bit of scenery-chewing that is quite funny.
03/25/04
Hanks masters the wordy dialogue, and coconspirator Marlon Wayans has several memorable moments, but the cast focuses too much on characteristic mannerisms, which diminish the story.
03/25/04
A cute but insubstantial exercise in stylish silliness that will likely be quickly forgotten.
03/25/04
The Coen Bros. [are] in fine form stylistically ... There's something about the way their work is so polished that it forces one to smile.
03/25/04
It’s on par with The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou and in many ways surpasses both of them in laugh terms alone.
03/25/04
Instead of feeling cleverly obtuse, the movie ... seems desperately wacky.
03/25/04
Top CriticInfectious gospel music gets the film in gear again as its droopy pacing and shortage of wit threaten to drag it down to irremediable sluggishness.
03/25/04
The Coens still have enough tricks up their sleeves for a worthwhile outing.
03/25/04
...good fun watching a great actor have the time of his life.
03/25/04
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