12A, 100 mins
While Mean Girls is proof that Hollywood occasionally gets it right, The Whole Ten Yards demonstrates the flipside — the unfortunate truth that, right now, some of the most stupid and arrogant people in the world are working in movie studios. Why else would a sequel be commissioned to the tortuously contrived hit man (Bruce Willis) meets dentist (Matthew Perry) comedy, The Whole Nine Yards?
What really rankles, though, is not so much the fact of the sequel, but the assumption that the audience will remember in detail what happened in the wholly forgettable first film. Anyone with less than perfect recall can expect to spend much of The Whole Ten Yards floundering, desperately trying to work out why dressing Willis in an apron and headscarf is funny.