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The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

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Reviews Counted:113

Fresh:5

Rotten:108

Average Rating:2.7/10

Consensus: A strained, laugh-free sequel, The Whole Ten Yards recycles its predecessor’s cast and plot but not its wit or reason for being.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content, some violence and language

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Apr 9, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $16,247,590

Synopsis: Retired hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (BRUCE WILLIS) is enjoying the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico. Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by onetime neighbor and friend... Retired hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (BRUCE WILLIS) is enjoying the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico. Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by onetime neighbor and friend Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, D.D.S. (MATTHEW PERRY) at the end of The Whole Nine Yards, Jimmy double-crossed the Gogolak gang and escaped the Feds by faking his own death. Now, secure in his Baja hideaway, Jimmy has traded in his shotgun for a dust buster and is learning to channel his natural intensity into more domestic pursuits like cleaning, decorating and perfecting his culinary skills while working through some of the personal issues that led him to a life of crime. Meanwhile, his wife Jill (AMANDA PEET), an idealistic wannabe assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit, dreams of the good old days when the only thing her wild man Jimmy cared about wiping up was evidence. Suddenly, an uninvited guest shows up on the Tudeskis' doorstep. It's Oz, breathless and desperate, begging them to help rescue his wife, Cynthia (NATASHA HENSTRIDGE), who has been kidnapped by the Gogolaks. Jimmy couldn't be less interested. It's not his job anymore. But before he can toss Oz out on his ear, more gate-crashers arrive. Newly paroled mob boss Lazlo Gogolak (KEVIN POLLAK) and his goons have followed the naïve dentist down from L.A. and right into Jimmy's front yard. All that crazy old Lazlo has been thinking about in jail is how he's going to get even with Jimmy for knocking off his favorite son, Yanni, and how he's going to fix that conniving Oz for helping him get away with it. Now Jimmy, Oz and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards - and then some - to save Cynthia, teach Lazlo a lesson and keep one step ahead of the mounting mayhem in this sequel to the 2000 hit comedy The Whole Nine Yards. [More]

Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet

Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak

Director: Howard Deutch

Director: Howard Deutch
Screenwriter: George Gallo
Story: Mitchell Kapner
Producer: David Willis, Allan Kaufman, Elie Samaha, Arnold Rifkin
Composer: John Debney
Studio: Warner Bros.

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The Whole sequel is so excruciatingly bad it reaches a new low for Bruce Willis.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
04/09/04
E! Online

A mostly funny film with occasional dead spots that does best letting the caricatures say exactly what you'd thought they'd say in next week's episode.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
04/09/04
Denver Post

The script is so bland it barely musters a whole ten laughs.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine

succeeds only in making one of Willis’ previous bombs, HUDSON HAWK look, well, not good, nothing in this part of the time/space continuum can do that, but downright competent

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/07/04
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

Leaden, laugh-free, lacking anything resembling a heart, mind or soul.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
04/09/04
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

A heavily made up Kevin Pollak -- (over)playing a Hungarian gangster -- best sums up the mood: 'Thees ees reminding me of my favoreet soup opera.'

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
04/13/04
Ben Kenigsberg
Ben Kenigsberg
Village Voice
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Shot down by hammy performances and a forced plot.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/11/04
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

You'd have better luck locating the Lost Dutchman Mine than finding a chuckle in this film.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
04/08/04
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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On a 1-to-10 scale of bad comedy (10 being the unfunniest), this one rates an 11.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
04/09/04
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

The story is a formulaic jumble, and the minor characters often appear to have wandered in from another Hollywood set.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
04/08/04
Bob Townsend
Bob Townsend
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Because the cast is having so much fun, it’s hard to blame them when the film becomes almost persistently unfunny.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
04/24/04
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

Slap-happy and slapdash, Ten Yards lacks the clever twists and turns that made the original such fun.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
04/09/04
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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A recycled, unfunny, dumbed-down version of a really good movie - maybe a dose of that nitrous oxide would have helped .

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
04/09/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Ten Yards regathers the cast of quirky killers and neurotic nebbishes and gives them almost nothing to do.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/08/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

A lazy, dumb, irrelevant sequel to 2000's "The Whole Nine Yards." It gathers together most of its predecessor's cast and puts out a contract on their careers.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
04/30/04
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Proof that most sequels should be avoided, "The Whole Ten Yards" vaporizes the humor of its superior 1999 precursor.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/19/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

[T]he perfect example of the utterly unnecessary sequel.

Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | comment Comment
04/09/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

The Passion was funnier than this tripe.

Full Review Source: KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) | comment Comment
04/07/04
Danny Minton
Danny Minton
KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX)

There are movies that could benefit from Three Stooges sound effects. This is one.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
04/09/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

lacks any sort of coherent style

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
04/08/04
David Levine
David Levine
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