Release Date:
02/19/2000
We were prepared to be charmed by Matthew Perry’s standard pratfalls. We were hoping that Bruce Willis would deliver his usual solid, smirking comedic turn. We even looked forward to whatever surprises Rosanna Arquette, Natasha Henstridge, and Amanda Peet would supply. Unfortunately, with all this talent to go around, The Whole Nine Yards reaches only four and a quarter feet.
A determinedly unoriginal comedy, the film’s sub-sitcom jokes are delivered with all the nuance of a blunt object to the skull. The premise: Oz (Perry) is a dentist, see, and he has this grating wife, OK, and then one day a famous hit man, Jimmy the Tulip (Willis), moves in next door. What follows is zany, kooky, madcap hell-on-earth—which won’t concern you half as much as the ass-chafing caused by shifting in your seat for two hours.
Amanda Peet is the film’s only saving grace. The beautiful and endearingly goofy star of WB’s Jack & Jill offers a refreshing comic flair, especially compared to Arquette’s Pepe Le Pew–on–crack French accent. After the opening scene, you’ll want to toss your popcorn every time she opens her mouth on screen. Mon dieux, the movie Le Sucks.
A determinedly unoriginal comedy, the film’s sub-sitcom jokes are delivered with all the nuance of a blunt object to the skull. The premise: Oz (Perry) is a dentist, see, and he has this grating wife, OK, and then one day a famous hit man, Jimmy the Tulip (Willis), moves in next door. What follows is zany, kooky, madcap hell-on-earth—which won’t concern you half as much as the ass-chafing caused by shifting in your seat for two hours.
Amanda Peet is the film’s only saving grace. The beautiful and endearingly goofy star of WB’s Jack & Jill offers a refreshing comic flair, especially compared to Arquette’s Pepe Le Pew–on–crack French accent. After the opening scene, you’ll want to toss your popcorn every time she opens her mouth on screen. Mon dieux, the movie Le Sucks.