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All rights reserved.The Whole Nine Yards (2000, DVD)
Slapstick Mobster Comedy?Review created: 02/19/00
by: phungus-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Movies
Pros:
Good cast, pretty funny
Good cast, pretty funny
Cons:
Lots of absurdity, too much slapstick
Lots of absurdity, too much slapstick
The Whole Nine Yards was better the first time...when it was called 'Analyze This'. However, it has plenty of laughs and some neat plot twists that will help you get over some of the absurdity that goes on in this movie.
Set in Canada, Matthew Perry stars as a mild-mannered dentist. His wife (Rosanna Arquette) is a total you-know-what with a french accent much like the frenchmen in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. His father-in-law, also a dentist, built up a good bit of debt before he died, and now his daughter and son-in-law are forced to pay it off. Therefore, they are a little tight on money, although Perry drives an older Toyota, his wife drives a new VW bug.
Perry's character comes home from work to day to find a new neighbor has moved in. He walks over to greet the man (Bruce Willis), only to realize (by recognizing a tatoo), that he is Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski, a hit man who had just been released from five years in prison after some implications with a murder. Jimmy apparently cut a deal to get out early, by ratting on a couple of people. So, these guys are looking for Jimmy and have a price on his head. Perry's wife sees the opportunity and asks him to go to Chicago and turn Jimmy in and try to collect a finder's fee from the mob. Who does Perry speak to? A hit man played by none other than Michael Clarke Duncan (J.C. from The Green Mile). Chaos ensues. Perry slips, falls, and runs into things. Natasha Henstridge (The Mimic) causes a little trouble as the wife of Jimmy. There's some shooting, a couple of other hitman, and you can just about figure out the rest.
This movie starts out pretty goofy and had me worried. It is Bruce Willis' charisma that ends up saving the film from it's horribly faked accents, ignorant characters, and overabundance of slapstick and physical humor.
The Whole Nine Yards is a dark comedy about hit men who have morals and all that nonsense. How many more mob comedies does the public have to put up with? First there was Analyze This, then Mickey Blue Eyes, now this. None of these films were bad, but they are just plain silly.
3/5 stars.
Set in Canada, Matthew Perry stars as a mild-mannered dentist. His wife (Rosanna Arquette) is a total you-know-what with a french accent much like the frenchmen in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. His father-in-law, also a dentist, built up a good bit of debt before he died, and now his daughter and son-in-law are forced to pay it off. Therefore, they are a little tight on money, although Perry drives an older Toyota, his wife drives a new VW bug.
Perry's character comes home from work to day to find a new neighbor has moved in. He walks over to greet the man (Bruce Willis), only to realize (by recognizing a tatoo), that he is Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski, a hit man who had just been released from five years in prison after some implications with a murder. Jimmy apparently cut a deal to get out early, by ratting on a couple of people. So, these guys are looking for Jimmy and have a price on his head. Perry's wife sees the opportunity and asks him to go to Chicago and turn Jimmy in and try to collect a finder's fee from the mob. Who does Perry speak to? A hit man played by none other than Michael Clarke Duncan (J.C. from The Green Mile). Chaos ensues. Perry slips, falls, and runs into things. Natasha Henstridge (The Mimic) causes a little trouble as the wife of Jimmy. There's some shooting, a couple of other hitman, and you can just about figure out the rest.
This movie starts out pretty goofy and had me worried. It is Bruce Willis' charisma that ends up saving the film from it's horribly faked accents, ignorant characters, and overabundance of slapstick and physical humor.
The Whole Nine Yards is a dark comedy about hit men who have morals and all that nonsense. How many more mob comedies does the public have to put up with? First there was Analyze This, then Mickey Blue Eyes, now this. None of these films were bad, but they are just plain silly.
3/5 stars.
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