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Whole Ten Yards, The
Warner Bros.


2.2

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, some violence and language

Starring Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak, Natasha Henstridge, Frank Collison, and Johnny Messner

Retired hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis) is living the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico, miles away from his former life. Suddenly, an uninvited and most unwelcome connection to their past shows up on the Tudeskis' doorstep. It's Oz (Perry), their former neighbor, breathless and desperate, begging them to help rescue his wife, Cynthia (Henstridge), from the Hungarian mob. (Warner Bros.)

GENRE(S):	Action \| Comedy \| Crime
WRITTEN BY:	George Gallo Mitchell Kapner (story and characters)
DIRECTED BY:	Howard Deutch
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: July 27, 2004 Video: July 27, 2004 Theatrical: April 9, 2004
RUNNING TIME:	97 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...

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Things spin swiftly out of control with uneven acting and misfired physical gags.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's every bit as nonsensical and overitalicized a mess as ''The Whole Nine Yards.''

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

A big, empty picture full of star turns, artificial energy and jokes that don't quite work, even if stars Willis and Perry do their best to slam them across.

USA Today Mike Clark

Destined to be on DVD by the time 2004 reaches the 50-yard line, Ten is more stale than it is ungodly.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

The obvious problem with The Whole Ten Yards is that it begins with the wrong kidnapping. Instead of taking Oz's wife, the criminals should have grabbed the authors of the original movie.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

This is one of those movies that also hand reviewers a ton of their own quotes as ammunition. Perry, just summing it all up: "I've never been this confused in my entire life!"

Village Voice Ben Kenigsberg

An anemic attempt at Coen-style bodies-and-bowling deadpan, The Whole Nine Yards compensated for its comic shortcomings with a casual, uncharacteristically likable performance by Bruce Willis.

Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer

Peet is still adorable, and a couple of twists enliven the plot, but the jokes are lame, the timing is off, the physical pratfalls are too broad, and there's still no chemistry between Perry and Henstridge.

Variety Robert Koehler

The strain needed to extend The Whole Ten Yards a yard -- and to feature length -- is so painfully evident it breaks new pic's comedy spirit, making it a particularly dubious member of the Sequel Hall of Shame.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Where the first pic breezed along with gags and gunplay, this forced follow-up is artificial to the hilt - fueled on a kind of trying-too-hard hilarity that makes even good actors look bad.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

At least it isn't a remake -- though given how slovenly and forced this movie is, maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad idea.

Washington Post Mark Jenkins

Will go anywhere for a gag, including into the realms of homophobic, gastrointestinal and erectile dysfunction humor.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

The least necessary sequel since "Agent Cody Banks" embarked on a London mission a few weeks ago.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The funny thing about this unfunny movie is that the cast is brimming with actors who are usually quite engaging. The Whole Ten Yards must be very potent chloroform, indeed, to make Willis, Perry, Peet and Pollak such zombies.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Strenuously unfunny sequel.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

An excruciating rehash that has virtually none of the wit and charm of the original.

Premiere Sharon Allen Burke

The gags are flat, and the plot twists aren’t enough to keep the film moving.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A fog of gloom lowers over The Whole Ten Yards, as actors who know they're in a turkey try their best to prevail.

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

Lacks the clever twists and turns that made the original such fun. The sequel has exactly one twist, and it's not very clever.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Not as desperate, unfunny, and nonsensical as its title. It's worse. Worse than you can imagine. Unless, of course, you've imagined 90-something minutes of bloopers and outtakes that congeal into a story -- much the way a scab is formed.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

The characters all feel like concoctions, like synthetic movie people forged in a crucible of Red Bull during late-night meetings at the studio compound.

Chicago Reader Hank Sartin

Every joke is stretched to the breaking point, and no one seems to be having any fun.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

What really sinks the film, though, is the utter absence of chemistry between Perry and Willis.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Disastrously unfunny sequel.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Miserably unfunny, wholly unnecessary affair.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Bereft of inspiration, the agonizingly witless screenplay - blamed by the credits on George Gallo - resorts to pathetic cheap jokes about flatulence and impotence, lame slapstick and that juvenile gag about the horror of two men waking up naked in the same bed.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Leaden, laugh-free, lacking anything resembling a heart, mind or soul.

The average user rating for this movie is 2.2 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Michael M. gave it a 2:
You thought "The Whole Nine Yards" was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. Thumbs down.

Sungus gave it a 2:
Hey Efe B., your review was about as stupid as this movie, and less funny. At least during the movie I smile twice and laughed once. Old women farting just get to me I guess.

Nathan H. gave it a 0:
It blows piles, avoid at all cost. Rather clean your bath, would be time better spent. Not natasha showing some clevage would have saved this crap movie.

Peter N. gave it a 0:
I don't know why I get sukered in to watch these sequels. The movie is rubbish. Another big flop wait for the TV movie. Bruce Willis supposely adlibs in movies and even he can't carry this picture. No story, no laughs, couldn't wait for it to finish. Bored me to tears.

Ron C gave it a 4:
Wow! I am so out of touch with critics. Okay, this wasn't a GREAT movie, but I'd sit through it 10 times before I'd watch "Crouching Tiger" again. I must live in my own little world. "The Whole 10..." isn't that bad.

Efe B. gave it a 1:
My score is 1 and not a fat 0 simply because i felt sorry for bruce willis in this movie. i have a feeling he needed the money...so he got the money and my one vote. it would have been better if ALL he did was take, but he GAVE us something....something so magnificently stupid, so amazingly shamefull, so mind bendingly crappy....he gave us this movie. if i begin with bruce's review, there will be no space to write about how bad kevin pollack and matthew perry and amanda peet were in this film. so let's give bruce a break and put his performance in a few words: "aaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh"!!!!! o.k, as for kevin pollack the same word above doesn't even do his horrible jewish mobster thing justice. him calling jimmy -"yimmy" is as funny as he gets, which as you can see is not funny at all. the movie "a few good men" was pollack's best and only on screen presence, like eminem says to moby "too old, let go,it's over, nobody listens to tecno" take a hike kevin. amanda peet. what a "peety". you know you have sunken lower than low when all the guys in the theatre are waiting to see your t.ts and not even listening a word you say...we don't even get to see her t.ts, but get a corny suggestion that we almost do which is not only cheap but degrading for her as an actress, why even fiddle with sexual jokes if you are gona cover her up in towels?...like the 98 percent of this film, her being in this film is a false promise. as for mathew perry, a star of the hit show friends...proves once again that he HAS no friends in real life, because if he did...they would have stopped him from acting in this amazingly awful film. unlike kevin pollack, this fella is young...i have no idea what eminem would have told this guy to do, maybe this will suit him "you are too doped, too boring, let go, it's over, nobody listens to techno"?

Chad S. gave it a 3:
Is Kevin Pollack supposed to be Larry Tate from "Bewitched"? His accent is painfully unfunny. Bruce Willis cries and we forget to laugh because Robert DeNiro has already cornered the market on neurotic sociopaths. Matthew Perry isn't a very good physical comedian. He works too hard for laughs and gets winces instead. What made "The Whole Nine Yards" a somewhat amiable comedy was Amanda Peet's surprising flair for comedy. If Perry and Willis allowed Peet to be the focal point, we might've had a watchable film. Pat yourself on the back if you can endure the whole ninety-seven minutes of "The Whole Ten Yards".

Whole Ten Yards, The Warner Bros.

Whole Ten Yards, The
Warner Bros.