The Whole Ten Yards

Certificate: 12A
Release date: 2004-06-18
Duration: 98mins
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet
Year: 2003
Country: US

Matthew Perry's post-Friends career gets off to a shaky start with a boring, bland, and wholly unwarranted sequel to 2000's The Whole Nine Yards. Reuniting Perry's meek dentist with Bruce Willis' stern hit-man proves even less appealing this time around, with new director Howard Deutch resorting to tired clichis and predictable GoodFellas stereotypes to paper over the cracks. Like Analyze That, another attempt to stretch an idea beyond its natural shelf life, The Whole Ten Yards overestimates both our affection for and patience with its largely unpleasant protagonists.