Product Description

They're back. And then some. Twelve is the new eleven when Danny Ocean and pals return in a sequel to the cool caper that saw them pull off a $160 million heist. But 160 million doesn't go as far as it used to. Not with everyone spending like sailors on leave. Not with a mysterious someone stalking Danny and crew. It's time to pull off another stunner of a plan?or plans. With locations including Amsterdam, Paris and Rome, the direction of Steven Soderbergh and the original cast plus Catherine Zeta-Jones and others, Twelve is your lucky number.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4106 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2005-04-12
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Dutch, English, French, Italian
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 125 minutes

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• DVD

Amazon.com
Like its predecessor Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve is a piffle of a caper, a preposterous plot given juice and vitality by a combination of movie star glamour and the exuberant filmmaking skill of director Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, The Limey). The heist hijinks of the first film come to roost for a team of eleven thieves (including the glossy mugs of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, and Don Cheadle), who find themselves pursued not only by the guy they robbed (silky Andy Garcia), but also by a top-notch detective (plush Catherine Zeta-Jones) and a jealous master thief (well-oiled Vincent Cassel) who wants to prove that team leader Danny Ocean (dapper George Clooney) isn't the best in the field. As if all that star power weren't enough--and the eternally coltish Julia Roberts also returns as Ocean's wife--one movie star cameo raises the movie's combined wattage to absurd proportions. But all these handsome faces are matched by Soderbergh's visual flash, cunning editing, and excellent use of Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome, among other highly decorative locations. The whole affair should collapse under the weight of its own silliness, but somehow it doesn't--the movie's raffish spirit and offhand wit soar along, providing lightweight but undeniable entertainment. --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker
Let us (why not?) borrow a trope from Leon Trotsky: "Every man has a right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Soderbergh abuses the privilege." This mock caper movie jerks along in the same incoherent style as Steven Soderbergh's 2002 "Full Frontal," which was a mock art movie. Soderbergh and the producer Jerry Weintraub jammed a script by George Nolfi called "Honor Among Thieves" into the "Ocean's Eleven" formula, and the result is a sequel devoted to an insultingly silly premise: Andy Garcia, the Vegas cASINo owner whom the team ripped off in the first movie, wants his money back, so the boys have to steal other people's money in order to repay him; they then get into a competition with the greatest thief in Europe to lift a Fabergé egg from a Roman museum. Much narrative repetition and dishevelment follow, underlined by inept "spontaneous" camera work. The actors run numbers on each other's heads and hang out at George Clooney's actual villa on Lake Como; Bruce Willis shows up, trying to pretend he's in on the joke, and smirks his way through several awkward scenes. Soderbergh and the rest may be embarrassed by the artificiality of caper movies, but their way of expressing their uneASINess frustrates the audience's desire to enter into a harmless fantasy. In the end, everyone in the movie has fun except the people watching it. With the French star Vincent Cassell, who, evading some laser beams, does a cross between gymnastics and Tai Chi Chuan, and, in general, performs with professional skill. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Let's Hope We're Spared Ocean's 13
A fair sampling of Hollywood's highest paid stars flew to Italy, set up a camera, and threw a party. It looked like they had a lot of fun.

A big waste of money.
Watching "Ocean's Twelve" is sort of like hearing that there's a big party going on where all the popular people are going to be, getting an invitation even though you're the most uncool kid in school, and then being stranded on the doorstep as it begins to rain. You can see that a lot of beautiful, famous people are having a whole lot of fun, but somehow, you get the feeling that you're not supposed to be a part of it.

There's a whole lot of starpower in this movie. Massive powders kegs of it. Stars left and right. As if the first movie didn't have enough, this one throws Albert Finney, John Travolta, and Catherine Zeta-Jones into the mix just to entice you even more.

And I love most of the actors/actresses in this movie. And with the exception of Julia Roberts, the cast does a pretty good job. Those who reprise their roles from the first film show that they haven't gotten "out of shape" and those who are newcomers fit their roles nicely.

But the script and the story both leave a lot to be desired. The dialogue thinks it's a lot cooler than it really is---there's not much wit or snap or sass in this movie. It's a straightforward, lame action-movie script that feels very boring to hear. The director tries to compensate for this with stylistic cuts and camera angles, or by having the actors speak with flair. Flair they've got, but the material they're delivering still sounds dead and passionless no matter how great their acting is.

The story is no better. There's no focus---you have this sublot with Linus trying to get promoted to Shift Leader and then there's a subplot about Danny and Tess and then there's this whole romantic plot between Rusty and Lahiri. All of that would be fine if the movie could take one storyline at a time and develop it more strongly. Instead, the movie rapidly cuts between them so that you never get a chance to get hooked into it. None of the subplots seem all that interesting and so you end up with a case of quantity over quality (a flaw of many big-budget pictures).

And when you realize what the main plot-line is, it's actually pretty dull and has none of the sparkle or charm of the first movie. In the first movie, there was a gang of likeable underdog thieves who are going to steal a bunch of money from an unlikeable casino owner. In this movie, there's a bunch of idiots who have to steal the Faberge egg because they're in a thievery competition with a petty Super Thief. That's just dumb. Surely, somebody could've found a more interesting and more believable reason for the Ocean's Eleven gang to come together again and pull another heist. This is the sort of plot you find in crappy family movies. "Oh, no, the rich kids at Camp Hawkfish want to buy out our camp and turn it into a golf course. The only way we can stop them is to enter an archery competition and win!"

The movie isn't all bad. It has style and the acting is mostly good and you get to see a whole bunch of celebs hanging out. But rather than waste money on that, you could always just go to the supermarket and read the tabloid headlines to get a more intellectually stimulating experience.

Frenetic,Fragmented,Overcrowded
Ya know what really grinds my gears?Take way too many good actors,overcrowded frenetic fragmented video scenes,a poor script,and a thousand over-ripe punchlines,cram it all together in one film and you get a Hell's Kitchen nightmare(horrible recipe) named Ocean's Twelve.