If you’re not familiar with the first film, most of the jokes and characters in this new outing will be meaningless to you.
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
Unlike 'Gigli', this one is so embarrassingly unfunny that it probably will not evoke even an unintentional laugh.
Though still fun, silly and occasionally very funny, the sequel falls a few inches short of 'The Whole Nine Yards.'
The original may not have offered a full nine yards of laughs, but the comedic value of this moronic sequel would have to be measured not even in inches, but in millimeters.
Why do filmmakers persist in making sequels to movies nobody seems to have liked in the first place, let alone loved with the kind of passion that leaves them hungry for more?
It’s not a movie made because someone had a good idea for how to follow up the funny first film — it’s just a sequel for the sake of a sequel.
The zany hitman action-comedy sequel that nobody asked for -- and yes, in case you're wondering, it's every bit as nonsensical and overitalicized a mess as The Whole Nine Yards.
I didn't laugh once because I'm not amused by gay jokes anymore... am sick of white comedians doing broad minstrel ethnic face, and erectile dysfunction and flatulence gags.
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
The Whole Ten Yards fails to work on so many levels that it's hard to know where to begin
A new director fails to maintain a firm hand on the tiller, so things spin swiftly out of control with uneven acting and misfired physical gags.
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