Be Cool (2005)

Sick Product of a Sick System

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A very funny film that's definitely a product of it's time. Having never seen Get Shorty or read the book, I enjoyed it a lot.

Be Cool, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, and a bunch of other really great actors (V. Vaughn, Dwayne J., C the E, Harvey K., J. Woods, D. DeVito, D. Mazar, G. A. Williams) plus brilliant musical talent from the industry (C. Milian!, Andre 3000, Steven Tyler) is waaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaay better than Get Shorty it's not even close. Get Shorty is annoying compared to this sequel. I love Get Shorty, starring John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, and a bunch of other really great actors (D. DeVito Farina & Lindo with J. Gandolf/Tony T.!) but it ain't nearly as funny nor neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeearly as SEXY as Be Cool and not nearly as good or sweet. (I ain't looked, but I'm willing to bet plenty of ppl think not, welp, URRRRR WRRRRRROOOOOOONGGGGG!) Christina Milian is so, so hot with a beautiful singing voice and I love her. (dip it low, pick it up slow...) Am I gay, or is Christina Milian the hottest divinely-sculpted physical attractive human female specimen imaginable with her deeply gorgeous and purely sensual and beautiful face and the best eyes, or is Uma? It may be awhile 'til I review Ghosts of Girlfriends Past so let me just say Christina's skin is like sweet caramel milk chocolate and her body is like athletic, and super sweet O M goodness. I love me some Christina Milian her music is awesome. Aerosmith's and OutKast's music ain't bad either. (Crazy!, B.O.B. anybody?) John Travolta's perfect for Chili Palmer, the coolest and best shylock ever!Dear Uma Thurman, your butt is so hot, I love it. I love you, Uma. I really don't care about what's her face.

This is a cold movie, a thing born of calculation and mechanisms in motion. It was not created by human hands but rather by large robotic engines that toil in an industrial area in southern California called Hollywood. Humanoid machines powered by chemical engines appear before an apparatus which captures light and motion and color. Standing outside the range of the camera's lens another humanoid machine issues commands to the humanoid machines standing within the camera's focus, based on this director's commands the actors attempt to comply. Alas the machines are clumsy and they have been programmed by inferior programmers, the code that propels these robots is both faulty and limited. In a factory this movie was manufactured, packaged and then distributed specifically for you to consume.

There are occasions when I like a sequel more than the original. Be Cool is one of these. I liked Get Shorty, but it was a little disturbing with some of the violence. I honestly think that Be Cool is much funnier. One way I know I like a movie is if I am channel surfing and I see a movie I know and I stop to watch it again. Well, I did that with Get Shorty the other night, and I realized I like Be Cool better.I think the main reason is the comic performances by actors like Vince Vaughn, who plays a bumbling, silly gangster wannabe (Raji). He is hung out over the edge of the building and he tries to spell his name and can't do it and that cracked me up. I also like Cedric the Entertainer who plays a movie producer (Sin LaSalle) with hired gangster enforcers that he has to tell to be quiet in his upscale neighborhood because they're playing their SUV stereos too loud.Dwayne Johnson (The Rock from WWE) plays a recording star-wannabe/enforcer for the Vince Vaughan character, and is very funny. Robert Pastorelli gets a fun appearance as a mafia assassin (Joe Loop), and chokes to death eating a ham and coleslaw sandwich as Vince Vaughan tries to intimidate him with a red aluminum baseball bat.So maybe I'm the only person that liked this movie, and the comic memories it has for me. Just to give you an idea of other sequels I like better than the originals there's Die Hard II, and Star Trek II.Add in another good comic performance by Andre' Benjamin (Dabu) and I must say this is a funny, enjoyable movie at least for me. Perhaps people don't like this movie because it seems like John Travolta (Chili Palmer) is pretty much a straight man for Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andre' Benjamin, but hey you don't have good comedy without a good straight man. And here's my spoiler, I liked the ending, and the unique way the credits were rolled.