Danny and the crew are back for more adventure and high-stakes thievery.

Rating: 9/10 (23 April 2005)

Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones I found Ocean's Eleven to be a highly entertaining crime caper of a movie.
I didn't like the ending because it left everything hanging out, saying one of two things. First, we don't know how to properly end a movie. Second, there's a sequel underway.
Fortunately, it was the latter.
At the end of Eleven, Danny and the boys get away with their heist, but Terry Benedict's goons are watching them and following them.
Enter Ocean's Twelve. Benedict is still a little less than thrilled about being robbed and insulted by Danny and the crew, and he wants his money back. Plus interest. This presents a slight problem, as most of the guys have squandered their "hard earned" dollars on God only knows what. Hence the premise of the movie; Danny and his fellow ten thieves have fourteen days to come up with the money they took from Terry.
The plot of the movie is not terribly difficult to follow if you have more than three quarters of your brain functioning. Translation, it's a good popcorn flick. Nothing wrong with those in my opinion.
One drawback to Twelve when compared to Eleven is that there isn't a big, masterful, detailed heist to watch. This may be a slight disappointment to some, but I found it to work just fine, as it gave the director the opportunity to zoom the lens in on the characters and focus on the individuals behind the crimes.
The movie does have some very cool scenes and some highly amusing ones as well. For example, there is an amusing segment where Tess has to pretend to be Julia Roberts. This is hardly a perfect film by any stretch, but I would still rank it as a worthy sequel.
On a somewhat unrelated note, Julia Roberts is thirty eight. It is not natural for someone to still be that fine when they're pushin' forty.
Bottom Line: 3.5 out of 4 (worth a look)