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Ocean's Twelve
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on 11-28-2008
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Actors: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Ed Kross, Julia Roberts
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: Dutch, English, French, Italian
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: April 12, 2005
Run Time: 125 minutes
Average Customer Review:
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Reader Reviews
Remember the chuckle you got during the end credits of "Ocean's Twelve" when it said "Introducing Julia Roberts as Tess"? Keep that in mind when you watch "Ocean's Twelve" because it is playing off of that joke that this Steven Soderbergh's sequel has its best moments. There have been films whose greatest crime was substituting style for substance, but in this 2004 film it is star power that makes up for the last of substance. If came back to gawk at the stars then you will enjoy this movie a lot more than if you are back to watch the gang pull off another complicated heist. They have to do that this time because Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) has tracked down all eleven of the gang members and told them he wants his money back (with interest). So Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) are putting the gang together and looking for a big job they can pull off before their deadline. If there is one lesson we learned from watching "Ocean's Eleven" it was to assume that EVERYTHING that happens is part of the master plan. Of course, the goal in the first film was to fake the viewer out as much as Terry Benedict. Soderbergh knows that and knows that we know that and hopes that we do not know that he knows that we know that so that he can play with our minds once again. That is indeed the goal, but this film stops short of even making it to the red zone. It is just that everybody is having such a good time they never really notice that this movie is barely a pale imitation of the original (remake), which is underscored when the cast is once again going through all those made up names for players and capers. Inviting such comparisons to "Ocean's Eleven" is not always a good thing in this movie, because it always loses out. That is not to say that the cast is not engaging. They throw Catherine Zeta-Jones into the mix so that she can fulfill the same role with Brad Pitt that Julia Roberts played for George Clooney in "Ocean's Eleven." But compare the characters in the two films and you will find that Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Bernie Mac and the rest having absolutely nothing in this film like the set pieces they had the first time around. Everybody had their moment to shine in the first film, but in the second they are more likely to be sitting around in a jail cell. If there was one thing they would have wanted to duplicate here it was those set pieces. But instead of Bernie Mac persuading somebody to sell him some vans we get him being miffed about the gang being called Ocean's Eleven. At least he gets that moment because some of the others get a lot less than that little bit and that is a big shame. The other problems are that when we get to the big revelation at the end we have two reactions, each of which is rather fatal to our enjoyment of the film. The first is that the payoff was not worth the confusion. Certainly it is not half as interesting as the caper in the original (remake). The second is that the final revelation is essentially a cheat, offering a radical interpretation of the prior events to show how they done did it this time around. In trying to do the same thing but in a different way to try and get away with it the second time the end product is a film where the best say you can say for the production is the cast got to spend time shooting in Europe.
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