The Whole sequel is so excruciatingly bad it reaches a new low for Bruce Willis.
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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Reviews for The Whole Ten Yards
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.
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
Leaden, laugh-free, lacking anything resembling a heart, mind or soul.
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.'
You'd have better luck locating the Lost Dutchman Mine than finding a chuckle in this film.
On a 1-to-10 scale of bad comedy (10 being the unfunniest), this one rates an 11.
The story is a formulaic jumble, and the minor characters often appear to have wandered in from another Hollywood set.
Because the cast is having so much fun, it’s hard to blame them when the film becomes almost persistently unfunny.
Slap-happy and slapdash, Ten Yards lacks the clever twists and turns that made the original such fun.
A recycled, unfunny, dumbed-down version of a really good movie - maybe a dose of that nitrous oxide would have helped .
Ten Yards regathers the cast of quirky killers and neurotic nebbishes and gives them almost nothing to do.
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.
Proof that most sequels should be avoided, "The Whole Ten Yards" vaporizes the humor of its superior 1999 precursor.
There are movies that could benefit from Three Stooges sound effects. This is one.
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