Ocean's Twelve (2004)

All Critics (189) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (100) | Rotten (82) | DVD (34)

Hits a new low in condescending facetiousness, with no fewer than 15 performers of varying talents, tongues firmly in cheeks, undercutting all the genre's action conventions while camping up a storm on two continents.

January 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

It does the hard work of being a light, smartly turned-out amusement, the sort of thing that's becoming more and more rare on the movie landscape these days.

December 11, 2004 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

Some of the bits are hysterical, but others fall flat.

December 11, 2004 Full Review

Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

In this sprawling oglefest, such things as 'narrative' and 'story' are remote little abstractions indeed.

December 10, 2004 Full Review | Comment (1)

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

The whole thing is a piffle of fluff or a fluff of piffle. About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.

December 10, 2004 Full Review

Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

In keeping with his general distaste for sequels -- this is his first, in fact -- Soderbergh has subverted all of the usual conventions, making the movie far more interesting than it has any right to be.

December 10, 2004 Full Review

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

A top-rate cast makes up for the thin plot.

December 26, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

A self-indulgent lark if ever there was one. Lucky for us Steven Soderbergh is at the helm.

August 24, 2010 Full Review

Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Ocean's Twelve is not as good a heist film as 2001's Ocean's Eleven. But it was never meant to be. (HD DVD Edition)

January 11, 2008 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Modern anti-heroes. Criminals with heart. And these guys are stinkin' funny.

September 27, 2006

Lisa Ann Cockrel

Christianity Today

Infuratingly lazy and insultingly smug. My choice for the worst film of 2004.

December 20, 2005 Full Review | Comments (3)

Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Not a great sequel, but nice DVD

August 28, 2005

Michael Szymanski

Wordmag.com

...the only way [Bernie Mac and Eddie Izzard's] talent could have been less showcased is if they had been assigned to carpentry duty.

July 25, 2005 Full Review

Uri Lessing

www.kcactive.com

• 1. Danny Ocean: Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
  – Submitted by Kaye E (4 months ago)
• 1. Danny Ocean: How old do you think I am?
  2. Virgil Malloy: Forty-eight?
  3. Danny Ocean: You think I'm forty-eight years old?
  4. Virgil Malloy: ...Fifty-two?
  – Submitted by Derek H (12 months ago)
• 1. Linus Caldwell: I am a traveler of both time and space.
  – Submitted by Cory P (13 months ago)
• 1. François Toulour: How can I refuse a dying man's last request?
  – Submitted by Emily C (2 years ago)
• 1. Tess Ocean: Oh no... Danny?
  2. Danny Ocean: What?
  3. Tess Ocean: Uhhhh... there's water in the basement, and the pilot light is out.
  4. Danny Ocean: Hang up.
  – Submitted by Emily C (2 years ago)

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