
I like Bruce Willis. Matthew Perry can cheer me up with a "Friends" re-run (Ok, I'm lying). The Whole Nine Yards was a funny movie that didn't try to be "The Sopranos" during Hollywood's mob wiseguy comedy trend and the cast is documented with having a really fun time making the first one. So it came as no surprise (and the 50 million gross of the first) that Bruce and friends reunited for the 2nd.


There's so many things that The Whole Ten Yards gets wrong so I'm going to bullet them in no particular order.
> Bruce Willis in bunny slippers and a maid outfit. He talks to chickens. In the first he let the laughs come to him. In the second movie, he's choking the laughs from the audience. He's trying to be funny, therefore he isn't.
> Kevin Pollak as Lalzo Gogalak. See the movie.
> Lalzo slapping his cronie, Strabo for laughs, not once, not twice, but many times in the movie for comedic effect. It's not funny the first time and it isn't funny the fifth time, either.
> PG-13 rating. Amanda Peet's tits were nice in the first, and there was enough sexual content to garner an R rating. The violence remained true to the themes of the movie. Going for a PG rating is like cutting its balls. Instead we get implied homo sex from Bruce and M. Perry. Ha. Ha.
> Chickens.
They weren't funny after Mel Gibson voiced one in "Chicken Run."
> 0:30 second mark - This movie gets off to a bumpy start with a younger Bruce Willis and Kevin Pollak beating each other up for laughs. Nobody laughs. It's like a bad comedian who goes on for an entire set. That's what this movie is.
> Ending. Apparently there were reshoots because of poor test screenings and it shows in the lack of continuity of logic. Without giving too much away because I know you want to see it, Bruce was just acting like he lost his mind in order to get M. Perry to lead him to Lalzo.

Surprisingly Matthew Perry tried his best to be funny here so the blame cant all fall on the Canuck. Then again, some movies aren't begging for sequels. There's no more story to tell. But I guess mobsters always have something else up their sleeves, so the story is never over. The Whole 11 Yards? No thanks.
One of the worst comedies ever: The Whole Ten Yards



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