Ocean's Twelve

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Soderbergh seems to have found his vision again. It'll be a great day when he returns to writing his own material, but until then, this is none too shabby.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

For sheer urbane elegance coupled with technical mastery and lush, old-fashioned élan, no one working for the studios today comes close to the versatile Soderbergh.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Let’s be honest: With a cast like this, it doesn't matter too much what the characters are doing onscreen, or if it makes about as much sense as a monochrome rainbow.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The film Soderbergh's made is about promiscuous stargazing. And you don't need a brain for that, just two eyes and a mammoth appetite for heavenly bodies.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

This loose, slightly lazy sequel is both funnier than the original and more bizarre.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie is all about behavior, dialogue, star power and wiseass in-jokes. I really sort of liked it.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Forget the plot of Ocean's Twelve - you will by the time you leave the theater, if not sooner. This slickly entertaining sequel is all about savoring eye candy.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Whatever substance there is of Ocean's Twelve fades faster than invisible ink. But it's not the kind of movie you watch for plot details. It's really about spending two hours on that Lake Como speedboat, relaxing with pals.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

As soon as it's over, and you find yourself back in the harsh light of the workaday world, you'll be hard-pressed to remember what happened. Except that you'll remember enjoying yourself - immensely.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Isn't just a double whammy, it's a whammy squared - a goofy, stylish heist movie that'll steal moviegoers from other pictures.

USA Today Claudia Puig

At the rate things are going, all of Hollywood will put in about a day's work on "Ocean's Seventeen."

Premiere Glenn Kenny

Soderberg provides a cornucopia of fizzy, post–New Wave imagery, fitting for a picture that’s pretty much all about surfaces.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Enjoyable, and will likely appeal to anyone who appreciated the 2001 film.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Stephen Mirrione's fast-paced editing and David Holmes' pop-rock score propel the story ever forward whether one follows the twists or not.

Variety Todd McCarthy

This smooth inside job benefits from heightened bonhomie among the players, fab Euro locations and a diminished obligation to stick to the heist genre boilerplate.

New York Magazine Ken Tucker

So fizzy it nearly fizzles out.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Funnier and sprightlier than Eleven, which exhibited a genial self-consciousness but never thought to challenge the genre textbook, Twelve is committed to not taking itself seriously.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Enjoyable, unabashedly trivial caper flick.

Film Threat Clint Morris

This film's twelve times better than anything else on offer at the moment.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

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

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

A light, smartly turned-out amusement, the sort of thing that's becoming more and more rare on the movie landscape these days.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

What it retains is a playful sense of style, that combines with an anything-goes spirit.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

Is it style over substance? Absolutely. But as with "Ocean's Eleven," style wins -- only just barely this time around.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

As a caper movie, it's a travesty that's impossible to understand or follow, but it's quite funny and clicks along nicely as a giddy, self-deprecating showcase for its gaggle of stars.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Likable as it is, suffers from that modern big-movie vice: overkill.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Even frothier and more frivolous than the first movie: It's a heist picture so laid-back and unconcerned, even the heist feels like an afterthought.

Newsweek David Ansen

Busier, messier and thinner than its predecessor...the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug.

Empire Dan Jolin

Compared to its ultra-slick predecessor, it's a bit of a mess. But it maintains a breezy sense of fun and certainly looks as cool as its minus-one equivalent.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Clooney and company work it too hard this time. You can tell they're huffing and puffing to stay afloat. But all I hear is: glug glug glug.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

All I got was this lousy movie. OK, it's not that bad, though in contrast to "Ocean's Eleven," which gave its megastars a neat little heist story, this sequel is both contrived and convoluted.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Ocean's Twelve lacks the courage of its star-driven convictions. Next time, Steven and George and Brad and Matt should ditch the hypocrisy and just shoot themselves shooting the breeze, poking fun at each other from within the smug sanctuary of their precious celebrity.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The fact that the movie has to entertain with digressions is an indication of more than looseness, but rather a shoddiness...Nothing connected with the job is of any interest at all.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Isn't good and isn't bad, it just isn't. A lethargic would-be entertainment as well as a dispiriting vanity project, it is such a misfire that it makes it hard to remember what was special about its predecessor.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

This lackluster sequel was surely much more fun to make than it is to watch.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

What's on screen is lazy, second-rate, phoned-in -- a heist in which it's the audience whose pockets have been picked.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

These people -- the filmmakers as well as the cast -- have brought a rare sense of camaraderie to their work. Unfortunately, they forgot to bring a script. They even forgot, in the midst of their joyous self-involvement, to take good pictures of the places they visited.

Slate David Edelstein

George Clooney is all by himself among living leading men in making smarm pass triumphantly for charm. But the movie lacks momentum, clarity, a decent payoff, and a location with the personality of Vegas.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.