Ocean's Eleven/Ocean's Twelve DVD

Advantages: Good cast; funny in places
Disadvantages: Confusing plot at the beginning of the film

This PG film is called "Ocean's 11" on the front cover of the DVD/video (which is the US title) and it was made in 1960. The basic plot in this crime caper is that 11 friends who were in World War 2 get back together to plan the robberies of five Las Vegas casinos on New Year's Eve. They are asked to do it by a crime boss who wants to hire people who aren't known villains. They plan to cut the power supply to the casinos and then steal millions ...
...this major crime with the same precision they carried out their army tasks? The film's main stars are Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean, Dean Martin as Sam, Peter Lawford as Jimmy. Sammy Davis Jr as Josh and Angie Dickinson as Danny's fed up wife. The film is largely a product of its time - sexist in places and even hints of racism in the film's main jokes. However, despite these jokes (however dodgy) it's generally actually quite dour for a "hiest" ... Read review

Advantages: Fabulous cast, funny, interesting plot
Disadvantages: Not really original and the sequel was a bit of a let down

...at one point!!! Ocean's eleven was a fantastic film containing every element a good film should. Eye candy for the ladies, eye candy for the gents, romance, comedy, quit wit, bad V good and a consistent plot. George Clooney plays bad boy Danny who plans to enter the world's most secure vault in order to steal millions from Casino owning Terry Bennedict who stole Danny's wife. He creates a gang including a retired thief, poker expert/card dealer, ...
...list goes on! I found ocean's twelve a bit of a disappointment after how fantastic ocean's eleven was. The same great cast but I felt it was a little more disjointed compared to the seamless writing of eleven. It also includes Catherine Zeta-Jones with a rather dodgy accent! Here, Ocean's original eleven have been tracked down by Furious Terry Benedict and are forced to flee America and carry out three heists across Europe to attempt to pay back ... Read review

Advantages: Two for one
Disadvantages: Originally quite expensive

Oceans 11 and 12 are both excellent remakes of classic flims. Both films are about classic heists with George Clooney and Brad Pitt as the 'Good' Crooks and Andy Garcia as the 'Bad' Crook. Catherine Zeta Jones and Julia Roberts are great and their characters develop across the films. The set piece in Oceans 12 where Julia Roberts plays her character pretending to be Julia Roberts is brilliant. Whilst I thought they were great individually at the ... Read review

Advantages: Two great films in one
Disadvantages: You can't just watch one!

...the sequel before I saw Ocean's 11. At the cinema on the first night it was out, enjoying a film with friends. I don't usually like the same films as my friends, but we all liked this one! Of course, I wanted to see the first one, but the opportunity didn't arise straight away. Then a friend brought it, and straight away I went round to watch it, and it was even better than the second one, if that's possible. Now I own both, of course, and watch ... Read review