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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 28765
Released: July 27, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Thanks to falsified dental records, retired hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) faked his own death and has taken up a new line of work as a homemaker for his wife Jill (Amanda Peet), a novice assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past appears. It's their former neighbor Oz (Matthew Perry) who begs them to help rescue his wife from the Hungarian mob. The mission mounts into Mafioso mayhem, in this screwball sequel to the 2000 hit comedy The Whole Nine Yards.
Description of The Whole Ten Yards (Widescreen Edition):
Bruce Willis turns on the charm in The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to the surprisingly popular The Whole Nine Yards. Willis returns as Jimmy "the Tulip," a former professional hitman, now living in Mexico with his bride Jill (Amanda Peet, Igby Goes Down), while his former neighbor Oz (Matthew Perry) lives happily with Jimmy's ex-wife Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge, Species). When mobster Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak, The Usual Suspects) kidnaps Cynthia to get revenge on Jimmy, Oz has to seek out Jimmy for help--only to eventually discover that there's some incomprehensible secret plan at work. The Whole Ten Yards was created purely because the previous movie made money; the sequel makes not an iota of sense. Willis coasts by on raw charisma, everyone else flounders (Henstridge seems completely bored). Fans of the first movie, however, may enjoy revisiting these antic characters. --Bret Fetzer
The Whole Ten Yards (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Just plain funny 
2007-09-01 - I never realized Mathew Perry is such a funny guy. And so physical prat fall funny. Just so off the cuff funny.
"You fell down the stairs..." 
2006-06-06 - I love this movie for a few reasons. One of those reasons is that I'm a HUGE fan of the previous film 'The Whole Nine Yards' to which this serves as the sequel. The next is the fact that Bruce Willis is one of the best of the underrated actors out there and captivates my attention with every performance he gives. The third, and biggest reason I love this film is a little scene where Jimmy (Willis) and Oz (Perry) visit the local pub and get a little (or a lot) drunk. The whole scene is worth the price of the rental. I guess since it reminds me so much of myself and my friends (I'm an emotional drunk) and the whole morning after thing is so the way it would happen. All in all the laughs are there, some are forced and the gags can be a bit cheesy. 'The Whole Nine Yards' was a far superior film, but this sequel is not without it's moments and Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry are a great comic team. Bruce can tackle everything from action to comedy to drama and should be recognized a little more for that. This may not end up your favorite title but it won't be your least. The premise follows Oz and Jimmy as they try and rescue Oz's wife (Jimmy's ex) from a mob boss trying to get revenge on Jimmy. Amanda Peet plays Jimmy's wife whose fed up with the softy Jimmy has become and is trying to be the tough contract killer that Jimmy once was. There are subplots and a twist at the end that makes this more than a no-brainer, but the fact still remains that the film makes little sense...but it doesn't really matter. Just sit back, relax, don't think about it and enjoy it for what it is...or at least watch the drunk scene, then pop in 'The Whole Nine Yards' and really enjoy yourself.
Method in madness
2006-03-06 - This is an extremely unusual film in that it is better than the first one - nine yards- which was very good. It has only one disadvantage : you may need, or rather I needed to view it twice to understand what was going on. Not a real disadvantage - I just viewed it for the third time and enjoyed it even more.
A Paltry Shadow of the Original 
2005-07-24 - Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas Oz Oseransky, retired hitman Jimmy The Tulip Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep: it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife from the Hungarian mob. To complicate matters even further, the men, who are out to get Oz, are led by Lazlo Gogolak, a childhood rival of Jimmy's and another notorious hitman. Oz, Jimmy and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards--and then some--to manage the mounting Mafioso mayhem.
There isn't much about this film to enjoy. I was hoping it would be a lot funnier than it was, but I just didn't laugh at anything except Kevin Pollack's character who was hard to understand most of the time. I had no problem with the cast, I enjoyed all of their performances. Especially Kevin Pollack and Natasha Henstridge who really made the film at least somewhat watchable. If only Bruce Willis could have had more funny lines, or Matthew Perry been a little funnier, or if Amanda Peet...wait there's nothing wrong with her. Anyway, I can only recommend this to someone who likes the cast but not necessarily the story, otherwise, this movie gets a 5 out of 10 because they did try...to some degree.
Not a bad sequel
2005-06-10 - As a huuuuge fan of "The Whole Nine Yards" I knew that there was no way ANY sequel would ever match the comedy and plot twists as the first. This being said, I went into this film with minimal expectations.
Well, this movie turned out better than I had hoped. The cast is still fun to watch and the story, aalthough a little confusing at times, is still plausable and symetric with the first movie.
Matthew Perry plays 'Oz', a dentist, who recently married 'Cymthia', 'Jimmy the Tulips'(Bruce Willis) ex-wife. Picking up where he left off in the original, Perry is hilarious in this film. 'Oz' is a very scared man after all that he had been thru in the first film; and, Perry plays this to perfection. WHile this role for 'Oz' is different than the first; where he played a Dentist who simply had no clue what was happening around him; it still works with the plot and is a pleasant change-of-pace for the sequel. 'Oz' has decided to arm his house with guns and monitor the perimeter with cameras. This drives his wife, 'Cynthia' mad to the point where she goes behind his back and plots an inheritance heist with her ex-husband 'Jimmy'. NAturally, the the 'heist' involves both 'Oz' and hitwoman-wannabe, 'Jill'(Amanda Peat).
The plot involves 'Yanni Gogalack's' father, threatening 'Oz' and kidnapping 'Cynthia' for information as to the whereabouts of 'Jimmy'(or Yimmy') as the 'Gogalacks' always say. The rest of the movie is basically the unraveling of the planned 'heist'.
Amanda Peat is great in this film, as is her character 'Jill'. IN this one, they play-out the fact that she wants to be a professional hit-woman and continuously screws up potential 'jobs'. Sh eplays the role well, albeit the fact that this is a 'cheesy' comedy.
Bruce Willis is good and believable as 'Jimmy', but 'Jimmy' is pretending to be psychaotic thruoughout most of the film and it does get a little annoying after awhile.
Matthew Perry makes this film, much as he did the first. He is constantly being picked-on by 'Jimmy' and he just takes it all in stride so well. He's really funny in this film.
ALl-in-all I would recommend this film, but DO NOT expect anything near as good as the first.
