The Twelve Days of Ocean was too merry for its own sake!

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2005)

OK, time to go back to the Ocean! "Ocean's Twelve" is obviously the sequel to the caper hit "Ocean's Eleven". Did the sequel gamble payoff? Mmmmm well! I'll tell you this much! It did not hit the cinematic supreme jackpot that its predecessor was able to reach. At times "Ocean's Twelve" seemed indolent, fatiguing, and unpolished. Hey, maybe the porn version of "Ocean's Twelve" called "The Dirty Dozen" will be better. OK, I lost track of this review. Coincidentally enough, at times you will lose track of "Ocean's Twelve" unparalleled storyline. Director Steven Soderbergh could have "soder" done a better job as he did in Eleven. In "Ocean's Twelve", the same zany cast of characters are back for another heist before the clock strikes twelve. Maybe you've heard of them: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Casey Affleck, James Caan, and on and on and on. Andy Garcia is also back as the vengeful Casino Owner who wants his money back from the Oceanographers. To do that, the crew must execute a challenging European heist. Oh, who cares about the plot! You chicks just want to check out these dudes, while us guys have our dial set for "Zeta 4" for the voluptuous Catherine Zeta-Jones who here plays a European detective who tries to be the heist ballbreaker. Again, it is Catherine's physical and not artistic presence that did it for me. Clooney and the rest of the gang seemed that they were having too much fun here and maybe did not take the project too seriously. It did cross my mind that maybe they had a little bit too much of those "Ocean's Twelve" Packs. "Ocean's Twelve" is still cool but not in the class of the groovy Eleven. *** Average