 On ABC's Good Morning America this morning, critic Joel Siegel pondered why anyone would want to make "a sequel to a bad movie." Actually, he remarked: "As a sequel it works. The Whole 9 Yards was a bad movie. The Whole Ten Yards is worse." Similarly, Ann Hornaday remarks in the Washington Post that the movie may be "the most un-asked-for sequel in movie history." The New York Post's Jonathan Foreman, who found the original to be "enjoyable," calls the sequel "a labor of greed that reeks of contempt for the audience." Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News calls it "a time waster." Peter Howell in the Toronto Star dismisses it as "astoundingly limp," while Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer brands it "artificial to the hilt, fueled on a kind of trying-too-hard hilarity that makes even good actors look bad." Or as Philip Wuntch puts it in the Dallas Morning News: "The Whole Ten Yards is an exercise in humiliation for all concerned." |
