Continued from page 1

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Eleanor Ringel Gillespie didn't have high expectations for the movie in the first place, given that most sequels are duds, but ended up thinking that it wasn't so terrible. "It's all a lot like the old Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road pictures. You half expect Dorothy Lamour to show up in a sarong," she writes, just before noting that Catherine Zeta-Jones is the best part of the movie, mostly because she's the only one working. Think you'll be getting a lot of Clooney in this flick? Forget it, she says. Zeta-Jones is on screen more than eight of the 11 put together. But Salon's Stephanie Zacharek is most intrigued by Julia Roberts's return as Tess and the way that director Steven Soderbergh melds her character with her real life ‑- since she says nobody will buy Julia as a character anymore. "Soderbergh makes Tess seem even more 'real' than Julia Roberts, a feat I wouldn't have thought possible," she writes. Los Angeles Weekly's Ella Taylor is the contrarian of the group in that she actually likes the plot: Its "many twists and turns are intricately fitted together and accessorized with nifty flashback and delirious pauses for nutty banter," she says.

previous 1 2 3 4 next