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: #4064 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

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.

One Word.........BLAH!
Ocean's Eleven was a watchable movie, nothing to write home about but at least those involved didn't have to hang their heads in shame. This sequel however is one of the most uneven pointless sequels I've ever seen. The worst flaw of this film is simply put...it is BORING. There is also a really preposterous scene with Julia Roberts character playing Julia Roberts...maybe one of the dumbest things I've ever scene in a film. George Clooney and Brad Pitt walk through this movie acting like they're the coolest hippest dudes on planet earth, sorry chaps but the jokes on you, Matt Damon seems cooler than you two arrogant chumps put together. Dumb,dumb, and just dumb. The story is so mediocre and silly that it's no wonder the acting is sub par. The best thing about this movie is the nap you can take while it's on.

Pointless - both for the viewer and for the characters
Ocean's 11 was a fun caper movie, as long as you didn't think too hard about it and enjoyed the ride. That the cast was populated with some of Hollywood's finest - Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, and the best actor in Hollywood at the moment, Brad Pitt - made the film worthwhile. The amount of money that it made pretty much guaranteed a sequel. I thought to myself, "It probably won't be as good, but if the same cast comes back, it'll have to be fun!"

I was dead wrong. The entire cast looks like they just mailed in their performances (with the exception of Damon, who has some truly inspired lines and situations - berating his partners for using disparaging language, being rescued by his mother, telling Ocean he's ready for "a more central role," etc.). Not only that, but the lackadaisical effort extends to the editors, the director, the scriptwriters, etc. As far as sequels go, this one was pointless to start with because everything that could be done was done in the first film. But the action within this movie itself is also pointless! For example, instead of lowering himself 2 feet over a wall to make a shot with a harpoon, the conspirators instead choose to raise an entire house (one with 3 high-tech security systems) 2 feet so the shot can be made from an adjoining roof. Surely one of those secturity systems would notice the entire house being raised, and if not, the people living in it surely would!

In a good movie, I wouldn't question such absurdity (and Roger Ebert seems to think the absurdity is the point). But this is not a good movie, and everything in it is so needlessly complex you can't stand it because the payoff isn't worth the effort. I was reminded of the Gene Siskel test: a good film is one that is more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch. This movie isn't even more interesting than a documentary of the empty restaurant where the actors will have their lunch later that day.

To add insult to injury, the DVD is bad. The sound (at least on my system) is terrible - the music track is at a level about twice as loud as the dialogue track. Were the producers trying to hide the inanity of the film? In addition, it is literally the most featureless DVD I have ever seen. The "extras" consist of 1 theatrical trailer. And yes, the one extra is menu-labelled with the plural "special features," as if to emphasise how little thought was put into every part of this film.