Jimmy spends his days perusing “Gourmet” magazine for new recipes and cleaning the house – in furry pink bunny slippers. Jimmy “The Tulip” Tudeski ( Bruce Willis), who faked his death in the original movie to get away from the gangster buddies he ratted on, is now living in Mexico and married to assassin-wannabe Jill ( Amanda Peet). You have another opportunity to miss the sequel.

If you missed the first one, you’re in luck. In, admittedly, a largely generic way.Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, some violence and language)Īctors: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak and Natasha Henstridge I wouldn’t call The Whole Nine Yards a good movie, but as I watched it, I found myself laughing quite a bit.

Perry has one hilarious moment – which you may have seen part of in a trailer – in which he enters a room and promptly crashes into a lamp.ĭirector Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny) has assembled a first-rate supporting cast that includes the hulking Michael Clarke Duncan (the empathic prisoner in The Green Mile) as a mob enforcer, the cool and beautiful Natasha Henstridge (the alien in Species) as Jimmy’s estranged wife, the weirder-than-usual Rosanna Arquette as Oz’s villainous wife, the frisky Kevin Pollak as a Hungarian mob kingpin and Amanda Peet (Jack on TV’s Jack & Jill) as an absurdly enthusiastic fan of hitmen. There’s quite a bit of physical comedy here, some of it uninspired, some of it quite funny. Perry uses a sort of worried, thoughtful deadpan while Willis’ is drier and more courtly. What’s important is how I get along with the people who are still alive.”īoth Perry and Willis play their roles deadpan, which makes the lines sound funnier than they really are. “It’s not important how many people I’ve killed. Later Jimmy shares his philosophy of life: Oz explains that, as a dentist, he tries “to keep things as painless as possible.” And Jimmy, without bothering to specify his line of work, replies, offhandedly, “Me too.”

When Oz and Jimmy first meet, for example, they talk shop. There’s enough incidental charm and humor in the dialogue and the performances to distract you from screenwriter Mitchell Kapner’s implausible, ramshackle storyline. But if The Whole Nine Yards comes up short in the plot department, it does have a saving grace – or, rather, a partly saving grace.

Comedian Gone Wrong by Jimmy Tudeski