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Ocean's Twelve
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MUSIC:
BOOKS:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language
Starring
George Clooney,
Brad Pitt,
Matt Damon,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Andy Garcia,
Don Cheadle,
Bernie Mac,
and
Julia Roberts
Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his team look to burgle three different locations throughout Europe. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Comedy
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Crime
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
George Nolfi
George Clayton Johnson (characters)
Jack Golden Russell (characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Steven Soderbergh
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 12, 2005
Video: April 12, 2005
Theatrical: December 10, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
125 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
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.

80
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.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Lets 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.

75
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.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
This loose, slightly lazy sequel is both funnier than the original and more bizarre.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is all about behavior, dialogue, star power and wiseass in-jokes. I really sort of liked it.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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."

75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Soderberg provides a cornucopia of fizzy, postNew Wave imagery, fitting for a picture thats pretty much all about surfaces.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Enjoyable, and will likely appeal to anyone who appreciated the 2001 film.

70
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.

70
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.

70
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
So fizzy it nearly fizzles out.

70
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.

70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Enjoyable, unabashedly trivial caper flick.

70
Film Threat
Clint Morris
This film's twelve times better than anything else on offer at the moment.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In this sprawling oglefest, such things as "narrative" and "story" are remote little abstractions indeed.

70
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.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
What it retains is a playful sense of style, that combines with an anything-goes spirit.

67
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.

67
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.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Likable as it is, suffers from that modern big-movie vice: overkill.

63
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.

60
Newsweek
David Ansen
Busier, messier and thinner than its predecessor...the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug.

60
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This lackluster sequel was surely much more fun to make than it is to watch.

38
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen.

33
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.

20
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.
20
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.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.


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