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Be Cool (5/10)

June 26th, 2005

Be Cool, a sequel to the very funny Get Shorty, follows Chili Palmer (John Travolta) as he gets bored of the movie industry in Hollywood and decides to try his shylock tactics on the music business. He rescues a very talented singer, Linda Moon (Christina Milian), from the clutches of a wannabe “gangsta” named Raji (Vince Vaughn) and his gay actor/bodyguard (The Rock). He also gets tangled up in the Russian Mafia and a rap group called The WMD’s led by their manager, Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer).

Be Cool is not nearly as cool as Get Shorty, which had much better humor, edge, and coolness in it’s script and characters. I kept reading about the dance scene in this one between Uma Thurman and Travolta as if it was good, but I saw nothing good about it. They looked like they were forced to be dancing, if you could call it that. It was no where near as good as the scene they had in Pulp Fiction. It’s a shame because I got sucked into the trailer by seeing all the big names in this movie. I can’t say it was a horrible movie, because there were some funny parts and I really liked to hear Milian sing, but that’s about it.

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