Review of The Whole Ten Yards (2004) by Sarah A — 12 Feb 2008

Two years after successfully hoodwinking organized crime and authorities to let murderous lovebirds Jimmy and Jill (Willis and Peet), the past comes back to haunt nebbish dentist Oz (Perry) and his gun moll wife (Henstridge) when she is kidnapped by Hungarian gangsters in search of revenge. Oz turns to Jimmy for help, making a bad situation worse and starting a series of events that grow increasingly strange and evermore deadly.

"The Whole Ten Yards" is a clumsily named sequel to one of thebest mob comedies ever flmed. It's also so clumsily executed that it will be hard to follow if you haven't seen the film it's a sequel to, "The Whole Nine Yards", because it assumes complete knowledge of the main characters and the events that brought them together in the first place.

Unfortunately, if you [i]saw[/i] "The Whole Nine Yards", all you'll take a way from this movie is dissapointment. The jokes are mostly lame, the charming sides of Perry, Willis' and Peet's characters that made the first movie so enjoyable is nowhere to be seen here--and even Perry's usually topnotch physical comedy and spittakes seem tired and forced here. Worse, the suspense that mixed easilly with the comedy in the original film has been replaced with badly mounted attempts at absurd humor.

Rating a very low 4, "The Whole Ten Yards" is a great dissapointment considering the excellence of the film it follows and the great cast that reprised their parts that has nothing of what made the ffirst movie worth watching. (That includes Amanda Peet's naked breasts.).

The Whole Ten Yards.

Starring: Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollack, Natasha Henstridge, and Tasha Smith.

Director: Howard Deutch.