A perfect "Good Sequel".....

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2007)

One things for sure this is "the year of the sequels" and you only need one look at the big movies this year to agree with me, whats even more surprising is the number on the sequels, trilogies are the new flavour of the decade, what was once the right of only the greatest and most groundbreaking films (and offcourse the most B-rated), is now the birthright of every other movie.
Whats even more surprising is that the trend has finally managed to catch the attention of mainstream movies everywhere, even British and Indian cinema where sequels were few and far between now have sequels to big films (Dhoom2, 28 weeks later).
NOt surprising then I found myself watching yet another sequel, and no matter what they say there was no way i was going to allow myself to expect anything more than ordinary for this movie especially in the light of Oceans 12 and the other sequels this summer.
Like other sequels this one has also taken the safe root by banking on the stars and characters created by the earlier movies instead of focusing on the script.
The characters have been given so much credit that this is almost not a heist film.
Not that im complaining, the dialogues were hilarious, the quirks of every character kept you interested throughout, the hilarious interplay between characters is what makes this film with a one page plot watchable.
Other than the big stars, the main character for me was Casey Affleck has the hilarious Malloy, he was the best thing for me in this movie and the hilarious Mexican Fiasco around him made the movie for me.
However no credit must be taken from the others and this being a character based film, everyone has risen to the part and done a good job.
Acting obviously is top-notch with some hamming that can be ignored if you see this movie as the character based comic caper that it is, dialogues are hilarious in all scenes even if they don't matter.
Technical aspects are OK, the plot being wafer thin, and the heist taking a back seat, the few special effects that are there are tastefully done especially the rendering of the hotel in Vegas.
The movie has loads of plot holes, useless scenes and sub-plots, like the one with french thief which i didn't figure out till the end, AMPLE SEQUEL PREPARATION WILL ENSURE SUCH OTHERWISE IMPORTANT THINGS Don't SPOIL YOUR MOVIE.
The lesser said about the con the better, its not important in the film and not worth discussing here either, as a heist film this movie would s^&*.
Background score was very effective with the songs really complimenting the scenes.
Comparisons with the original are useless and will only spoil this movie and this review.
In all a good sequel if you go with the correct expectations and realise the true nature of this film.
PLEASE Don't BE MISLEAD BY THE HIGH RATINGS THAT MERELY REFLECT THE FACT THAT THIS IS In fact THE BEST OF THE SEQUELS THIS YEAR NOT THE ACTUAL QUALITY OF THE MOVIE.
Give in to the hype and watch this movie.
-s loads of plot holes and useless sub-plots and scenes, the con takes a back seat and is badly executed, not a heist film, some acting could be called hamming,MYSTERY INTRIGUE AND TENSION ARE NON-Existent.
+/-s quirky character based comedy caper with the background of a heist, hilarious unrelated scenes (oprah and all), good sequel almost different genre.
+s top-notch acting (considering the type of film), few but good special effects not at all jarring, lots of really humorous scenes and dialogues, very good background score.
total 6.5/10 (7/10 factoring in expectations which was strictly OK. i expected a six and got slightly more, albeit from a different kind of film, please don't expect a good heist film or you may be disappointed. expect less get more).