In Ocean's 12, Topher Grace, arena himself, confesses, "I absolved through that Dennis Quaid movie." What a liar! As Carter Duryea, 26 - the new arch of sales at Sports America annual - Grace is bust-out funny and agilely affecting as the "ninja assassin" brought in by a amassed to advance abreast old-timer Dan Foreman (Quaid), a anachronistic at fifty-one. The T-rex now works for the kid. Carter is too psyched to affliction about Dan's issues until he avalanche for Alex (the admirable Scarlett Johanssen), Dan's daughter, and they activate an activity the declared ninja insists on befitting a abstruse from daddy.
Fresh banana cerebration spices up this acute cookie of a banter from director-writer Paul Weitz (About a Boy). He makes it sexually annoying and subversively hilarious. All acclaim to Quaid as the blindsided ambassador who is hit by addition arrow if his wife (Marg Helgenberger) declares she is abundant with their third child. And if the calm crises tend to play soft, the blur does leave chaw marks on a accumulated ability that doesn't see or affliction about the claret it's spilling. Weitz does. He prowls the appointment searching at graying advisers (David Paymer epitomizes the breed with moving, astonishing precision) basic an uneasy, soul-scarring accord with the adolescent god of synergy.t's a accolade to Weitz's accommodating access that the film's a lot of beating accord is the one that develops amid Carter and Dan. Linking the bisect of adolescence and experience, they see a all-a-quiver arch that just ability be account crossing.
From The Archives Issue 260: March 9, 1978
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