Ocean's Twelve needs to be thrown in one

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2007)

They were reaching on this one. "Ocean's Eleven" was such a wonderful movie and such a huge success they figured: "Let's do a sequel". So a sequel they did and they reeeeeeached to find an adequate reason to have the Ocean's Gang perform an encore. They were reaching for something... something unique, something intriguing, something that would put butts in the seats and keep them there. Without a doubt they failed. "Ocean's Twelve" was weak. I don't care how much it made (which I'm sure it can't be as much as O11) this movie was not that good.
The plot was so contrived. I mean, here it: is everyone is happily enjoying the fruits of their labor from masterfully stealing $180M or whatever it was, and then they are thrust back into the role of being thieves again because of the envy of some obnoxious French guy. And after the elaborate, well planned and well executed scheme of the first theft, the O12 theft was so amateurish. The only rooting interest I had in their success was to wipe the smug look off the snotty French guy's face. And what was Catherine Zeta-Jone's role anyway other than to be annoying?
Ooh this movie disappointed me on so many levels. It was mildly entertaining though and I did watch the entire movie to see how they pulled it all off, so I have to be fair and give it a 5/10 rating.