Not a serious effort

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2005)

With the original cast present I was expecting Ocean's Twlve to be at a similar level to the Ocean's Eleven remake, although the fact that being a sequel requiring a completely new storyline did make me wonder.
The film started out well enough and wasn't bad throughout but it became apparent it was aimed at the makers of the films themselves as soon as the "pretend to be Julia Roberts" scene started. Why this scene was written, shot and included in the film is perplexing and undermines the entire film, if they shot this sequence and watched it themselves for some laughs I could understand. The rest of the film isn't too bad but it's not at the same level as the first and large paychecks must have gotten all the cast back. I had hoped Ocean's Twelve wouldn't be just another crap sequel but what can you do.