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Be Cool | 
| Director: F. Gary Gray
Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric The Entertainer, Andre Benjamin
Category: DVD
Buy New: $5.98
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Rating:  165 reviews
Sales Rank: 166520
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
UPC: 027616927217
EAN: 0027616927217
ASIN: B000980GRA
Theatrical Release Date: March 4, 2005
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Be Cool takes its own advice: It's slick, Hollywood entertainment that kills two amusing hours with relative ease and comfort. Better than leftovers but not as tasty as a full-course meal, this sequel to 1995's hit comedy Get Shorty (and based on Elmore Leonard's 1999 sequel novel) finds former loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) itching to get out of the movie business, so he hooks up with a newly widowed music executive (Uma Thurman) to launch the career of an up-'n-coming Beyonce-like singer (newcomer Christina Milian). A mock-black manager (Vince Vaughn), his sleazy boss (Harvey Keitel), and an upscale gangsta-rap executive (Cedric the Entertainer) all have a competing stake in the fast-rising pop diva's future, and this sets the plot rolling in a fun but rather hand-me-down fashion that lacks the savvy panache of Get Shorty but still provides plenty of lightweight humor. The Rock and Outkast's Andre Benjamin provide the best laughs in supporting roles that effortlessly relieve the movie from the symptoms of sequelitis. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast, including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, AndrA(c) 3000, Steven Tyler and The Rock, and bursting with the hottest music in the biz, Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry, he romances thesultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec, poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!
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 Be cool is a 3.5/5 star DVD May 30, 2009
alex fryling (erie pa)
This was the remake to the original movie called Get Shorty. While this was a solid movie it did not live up to the expectations of the first one in my opinion. They had a great cast of actors even some of the old ones back like Danny Divito but I felt the storyline was remade but not in a better way. It still brought the funny aspect to the film. And watching the rock play a gay character in the movie was absolutely hilarious. Also watching Vince Vaughn playing a wanna be gangster is funny as heck as well. Just something missing and unlike the first movie you could tell the content was less severe not only because it was PG-13 but not the full out feel we don't care what we say we are going to make a great movie. I would still recommend picking this up if you can for $10 or below because it is funny. I will give it a 3.5/5 stars and leave it at that.
Just...you know...be cool May 18, 2009
M. B Cole (Las Vegas, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I usually review movies in a certain way, but for this one, I'm just gonna get right down to why I think this movie is pretty darn good. I was actually shocked to see it rated as low as it is. I know it's a sequel to Get Shorty (which I remember being good...but I just can't remember it), but it honestly feels like its own movie. It feels like it has almost nothing to do with its predecessor. I'm going to actually tell you 10 reasons why I like it.
1. John Travolta plays Chili Palmer perfectly. I love how he's a smooth tough guy with a brain. He gets just about anything he wants, and can totally out play anyone by reading who they are perfectly.
2. Dwayne `The Rock' Johnson is hilarious. I've liked Dwayne since he was The Rock on WWF. He was always funny, even when he was supposed to be on the bad guy side. You couldn't help like his cocky demeanor. Here though, he plays a tough guy (supposedly) body guard for Raji. Oh and he's gay. He loves looking good and loves acting and singing.
3. Vince Vaughn is amazing as the music manager Raji, a white guy who acts and dresses in a black guy pimpish kind of way. Hearing him talk is priceless. I love when he starts talking like he's a bad mutha, but then quickly backs down when confronted.
4. Cedric the Entertainer plays Sin LaSalle, a music recorder/mixer. A very educated black man, that is great at what he does. I love the fact that the first time you see him, he's acting more like some goofy rich white dude. Then you see his crew role up in hummers with spinners and loud music, and guns stuck in their very low riding jeans, and you know how he truly is. He's a gangsta in sheep's clothing.
5. Andre (from the rap group Outkast) is Sin's cousin, Dabu. He's a straight up thug, who always loud and just wants to kill someone and doesn't care who. At first he was kind of annoying, but I was wrong, he's funny.
6. Stereotyping is rampant in this movie. I don't like racism, but I do think jokes about stereotypes are funny. Which is why I think Carlos Mencia can be funny, as well as Dave Chappell who I think is a comedic genius. Even Chris Rock. Those guys know how to spread it around, to make you feel like you are not being singled out. That's kind of how this movie makes me feel.
7. The story itself, even with some definite holes, is a lot of fun. Watching how the back stabbings unfold is great. Especially when Raji gets called out by Sin. Hilarious.
8. Christina Milian is not a great actress, but she sure doesn't hurt my eyes.
9. This list isn't going to make it to 10 things.
10. Did I mention Vince Vaughn and the Rock? Seriously, they were amazing in every scene they were in. I laughed hard a lot when they were on.
Though I really liked Be Cool, it sure wasn't perfect. Probably my biggest gripe was the god awful blatancy of the product placements. I don't know how many times we had to see the Honda Insight car or the T-Mobile Sidekick or all the other name drops in the movie to get it in our heads that they were in there. I laughed one time when the camera was slightly zoomed in on the back of the sidekick while somebody was texting someone. T-MOBILE SIDEKICK. Ugh... it was horrible.
So in the end, I really liked the movie. I don't even think of it as being a sequel to Get Shorty. I laughed a lot and am definitely glad I own this movie. Give it a try.
P.S. - I love when Raji and Elliot (The Rock) are talking about getting some chicken. I don't think they said the whole name, but you can tell they were talking about Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles...hehe. I've always wanted to eat there.
Be Cool December 20, 2008
A. Hunt (Colorado)
This is a great movie, fun, funny and great actors in it. You don't have to see my cousin vinny to understand this sequel.
 Great Amazon Seller!!! December 15, 2008
Renee A. Walker
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 This one stanks December 6, 2008
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
I don't know what happened here, given the high quality cast. The movie is lame, flat, lifeless, cliche ridden, strained, not funny and an overall waste of celluloid. Other than that, it's not bad.
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