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"The Whole Ten Yards" catches up with Jimmy the Tulip Teduski, out of the contract killing business and settling down in a nice country home with his wife Jill. He cooks, he cleans, he has hair. But even with the peace of mind you would assume would accompany no longer killing people for a living, Jimmy isn’t incredibly happy. He is very high strung and is incredibly upset if you walk on his newly vacuumed floors with your shoes on, and incredibly unhappy if the dinner he has slaved over is ruined. Those pressures, albeit it much less than getting shot at on a regular basis, seem to have manifest themselves in the worst place for problems to come to light - the bedroom, according to Jill. Then, of course, we have to touch base again with Oz, the cowardly dentist as played by Perry. Now I guess as a result of his misadventures in the first movie, on top of being a chicken, Oz is also paranoid. He has security cameras all over his house and a small arsenal of weapons on hand. He even suggested putting a moat around his house when his way-too-beautiful-for-him wife hinted that she might be pregnant. For those of you who may have forgotten this detail in the first movie, Jimmy the Tulip killed Janni Pytor Gigolo as played by Kevin Pollack. I mention that because while Janni may be dead, Pollack returns as Janna’s father Lazlo, fresh out of prison with revenge in his heart for the man who killed his son. I remember liking " The Whole Nine Yards." Just good enough that you remember it, it’s not like I put a bum’s rush on the video stores when it came out on DVD or anything, but it was good. Not good enough to warrant a sequel in my opinion. This movie did everything bad sequels do and a lot of things that just bad movies do. I won’t bore you with the details, only tell you that no matter how much of a fan you are of "Friends" and like to see Matthew Perry continuously re-hash the Chandler character, no matter how anxious you may be to see the "Die Hard 4" movie sometime in 2005, do yourself a favor and avoid this movie.
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