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Saw this last night, and it sucked so much it almost made Get Shorty start to suck. None of the magic of the first movie made it into this sequel. Chili Palmer is no longer cool; you actually start to get tired and hate him as the movie goes on. He keeps repeating his phrases from Get Shorty which were funny back then because they were unexpected. Now they're just "catchphrases," like "What are you going to say?" "No more than I have to, if that!" Or the now-ruined "Look at me." I swear he says it ten times in this movie.
And how many times is the "break into your house in the middle of the night, turn the TV on, and sit in the dark waiting for you in your favourite armchair" scene from Get Shorty going to be re-hashed in its sequel? COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW! What kind of town is this where ANYONE can break into ANYONE else's house anytime? Lame!
Gene Hackman's gone, replaced (sort of) by the ever more astoundingly horrid Uma Thurman (any of you who thought she was a great actress should watch Be Cool; your mind will be changed before you can say Kill Uma!)
I used to think Vince Vaughn had a good actor buried somewhere beneath the veneer of ridiculous roles he chooses in movies, and have been waiting for him to return to his Swingers and Made days for quite some time now. I hated Old School, and though Dodgeball was actually pretty funny, I thought Vaughn was wasted talent in it. Now, seeing this most offensive and downright BAD wannabe rapper "Raji" he plays in Be Cool, I can honestly say he sucks. He's not funny, he's annoying. Then he gets more annoying, then he gets even more annoying. It never stops. I woke up this morning still annoyed by his character.
PG-13 is not the rating this movie needed. There was almost NO hard swearing. Curse words were used as a narrative device quite effectively in Get Shorty (remember Dennis Farina's Ray Bones character? "**** you, ****ball!) and now not even Cedric the Entertainer and his hard-core gangsta posse can be seen swearing. Not to be stereotypical, but what kind of gangsta rappa doesn't use the f-word three times a sentence? These rappers have more swearing in their videos than in the movie.
Steven Tyler can sing, but he's one of the ugliest people on the face of this fair planet, and he should never be allowed to step foot on another movie set as long as he lives. He simply cannot act. A hugely successful rockstar does not a movie star make. If you don't believe me, just watch any movie starring Madonna.
All in all, it's probably best not to make a MOVIE about the MUSIC business. No one wants to see the "behind the scenes" of this industry; it's boring and not even a movie can spice it up. Hell, they even robbed Harvey Keitel of all his previous bad-ass qualities; here he's a short little weasel with a bad moustache and even worse hair.
Not even Christina Milian as the singer Chili "discovers" is even that good. She's a Beyonce (sp?) rip-off at best, and from watching the Oscars we all know how much Beyonce sucks. But everyone in the movie thinks she's a DIVA! Just like Whitney and Tina! In fact at one point she's even compared to Aretha Franklin! I don't THINK so!
The Rock was the best part of the movie; he managed to shine even while playing a gay bodyguard with a mini-afro who loves country music, cowboy boots and tight bellbottoms. The Rock rocks and he always will. It appears that a professional wrestler DOES make a fine actor! Well, not for Hulk Hogan, but still...
I saw the movie just because I loved the first one so much, which is why everyone else watched it (except the little gangsta wannabes in the theatre with me, who must have been there to see a glimpse of their idol Andre 3000.
One Star.
And how many times is the "break into your house in the middle of the night, turn the TV on, and sit in the dark waiting for you in your favourite armchair" scene from Get Shorty going to be re-hashed in its sequel? COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW! What kind of town is this where ANYONE can break into ANYONE else's house anytime? Lame!
Gene Hackman's gone, replaced (sort of) by the ever more astoundingly horrid Uma Thurman (any of you who thought she was a great actress should watch Be Cool; your mind will be changed before you can say Kill Uma!)
I used to think Vince Vaughn had a good actor buried somewhere beneath the veneer of ridiculous roles he chooses in movies, and have been waiting for him to return to his Swingers and Made days for quite some time now. I hated Old School, and though Dodgeball was actually pretty funny, I thought Vaughn was wasted talent in it. Now, seeing this most offensive and downright BAD wannabe rapper "Raji" he plays in Be Cool, I can honestly say he sucks. He's not funny, he's annoying. Then he gets more annoying, then he gets even more annoying. It never stops. I woke up this morning still annoyed by his character.
PG-13 is not the rating this movie needed. There was almost NO hard swearing. Curse words were used as a narrative device quite effectively in Get Shorty (remember Dennis Farina's Ray Bones character? "**** you, ****ball!) and now not even Cedric the Entertainer and his hard-core gangsta posse can be seen swearing. Not to be stereotypical, but what kind of gangsta rappa doesn't use the f-word three times a sentence? These rappers have more swearing in their videos than in the movie.
Steven Tyler can sing, but he's one of the ugliest people on the face of this fair planet, and he should never be allowed to step foot on another movie set as long as he lives. He simply cannot act. A hugely successful rockstar does not a movie star make. If you don't believe me, just watch any movie starring Madonna.
All in all, it's probably best not to make a MOVIE about the MUSIC business. No one wants to see the "behind the scenes" of this industry; it's boring and not even a movie can spice it up. Hell, they even robbed Harvey Keitel of all his previous bad-ass qualities; here he's a short little weasel with a bad moustache and even worse hair.
Not even Christina Milian as the singer Chili "discovers" is even that good. She's a Beyonce (sp?) rip-off at best, and from watching the Oscars we all know how much Beyonce sucks. But everyone in the movie thinks she's a DIVA! Just like Whitney and Tina! In fact at one point she's even compared to Aretha Franklin! I don't THINK so!
The Rock was the best part of the movie; he managed to shine even while playing a gay bodyguard with a mini-afro who loves country music, cowboy boots and tight bellbottoms. The Rock rocks and he always will. It appears that a professional wrestler DOES make a fine actor! Well, not for Hulk Hogan, but still...
I saw the movie just because I loved the first one so much, which is why everyone else watched it (except the little gangsta wannabes in the theatre with me, who must have been there to see a glimpse of their idol Andre 3000.
One Star.
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