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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 8532
Released: April 12, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
They're back. And then some. Twelve is the new eleven when Danny Ocean and pals return in a sequel to the cool caper that saw them pull off a $160 million heist. But 160 million doesn't go as far as it used to. Not with everyone spending like sailors on leave. Not with a mysterious someone stalking Danny and crew. It's time to pull off another stunner of a plan?or plans. With locations including Amsterdam, Paris and Rome, the direction of Steven Soderbergh and the original cast plus Catherine Zeta-Jones and others, Twelve is your lucky number.
Description of Ocean's Twelve:
Like its predecessor Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve is a piffle of a caper, a preposterous plot given juice and vitality by a combination of movie star glamour and the exuberant filmmaking skill of director Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, The Limey). The heist hijinks of the first film come to roost for a team of eleven thieves (including the glossy mugs of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, and Don Cheadle), who find themselves pursued not only by the guy they robbed (silky Andy Garcia), but also by a top-notch detective (plush Catherine Zeta-Jones) and a jealous master thief (well-oiled Vincent Cassel) who wants to prove that team leader Danny Ocean (dapper George Clooney) isn't the best in the field. As if all that star power weren't enough--and the eternally coltish Julia Roberts also returns as Ocean's wife--one movie star cameo raises the movie's combined wattage to absurd proportions. But all these handsome faces are matched by Soderbergh's visual flash, cunning editing, and excellent use of Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome, among other highly decorative locations. The whole affair should collapse under the weight of its own silliness, but somehow it doesn't--the movie's raffish spirit and offhand wit soar along, providing lightweight but undeniable entertainment. --Bret Fetzer
Ocean's Twelve Reviews:
very well orchestrated. 
2009-09-12 - this movie is very well played,by all parties involved which i wasnt sure it would be since there are so many individuals involved in it.
america's critic 
2009-09-12 - lame lame oceans 11-12-13-- ok ok all these great actors sucked on this one brad pitt sucked big pole on this one movie sucked thats all i can say.
Ocean needs to dry up
2009-08-15 - I still have nightmares about it: I was in the theater. It was around late January, and the options were few, so my brother and I picked "Ocean's 12." My therapist tells me I will get over my condition one day but it will take a lot of work.
Here's what Hollywood did: "We have some money and we need something to fill the post-holiday gap. Any unnecessary sequels need making? Ocean's 12? Let's do it. Come on, this is a sequel. We don't even need a script. Clooney, Pitt, Damon and Roberts will just wander around Amsterdam until a plot gels somehow."
And the deus-ex-machina ending was so bad I couldn't believe the actors and writers ever agreed to it. It proves my point that no one involved cared about this movie from the start.
If you rent or buy this DVD, pull your pants down and take a steamy dump on it. Then it'll have more value.
Not a bad sequel 
2009-05-15 - I enjoyed 11 and I have to admit the first time I saw 12 I saw it on the tube about a quarter of the way into it. I didn't like it because I couldn't follow it. Once I saw it from the beginning the movie grew on me and I consider it almost the equal of 11.
Better than Ocean's 11 or 13
2009-05-05 - The entire movie may seem contrived and the plot all jumbled up, but that's truly the genius of Soderbergh. All the characters were interesting and there is still enough development in all of them that allowed us to learn more about each one of them, well maybe not the Chinese guy or Frank.
The soundtrack is amazing and the part where Toulour uses his skills to steal the egg was excellent.
I had to watch it twice before I can really appreciate the one liners, subtle plot twists, etc.
I am surprised by the negativity from most of the reviewers, but I think this movie can only really be appreciated by fans of the TV shows 24 or Lost.
