Be Cool

Be Cool

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 Beyoncé-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 André Benjamin provide the best laughs in supporting roles that effortlessly relieve the movie from the symptoms of sequelitis. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer
Production: MGM/UA
  1 win & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
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PG-13
Year:
2005
118
$55,590,667
Website
4,700 Views

Elliot Wilhelm:
Whoo! Scorchin'!

Elliot Wilhelm:
Like that?

Raji:
Stop hatin', start participatin'. Come on, twinkle twinkle, baby, twinkle twinkle. Wanna take a shot at me kid? Do it.

Raji:
I'm just sayin' if that's what this is gonna be, it's gonna be that.

Linda Moon:
That's my manager, Roger.

Chili Palmer:
He talks like that?

Linda Moon:
He thinks he's black.

Chili Palmer:
I hate sequels.

Darryl:
What do you say to a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

Steven Tyler:
Look at how those legs go all the way up and make an ass out of themselves.

Roman Bulkin:
Be cool, n*gger.

Steven Tyler:
I'm not one of those singers who appears in movies!

Elliot Wilhelm:
When are you going to call me?

Chili Palmer:
When your phone rings.

Chili Palmer:
What's this movie about?

Tommy Athens:
Me!

Chili Palmer:
I couldn't even get your mother to watch that movie.

Chili Palmer:
Dabu.

Dabu:
Player!

Fast Freddie:
Who are all these people trying to kill you?

Chili Palmer:
I don't know. I'm in the music business now. It could be anybody.

Sin LaSalle:
Dabu, whatcha drinkin? Tea?

Dabu:
Hmmmmmm...

Sin LaSalle:
Dabu, tea is *not* gangsta! Dabu, tea is *not* gangsta!

Dabu:
You don't even have to say it, I all ready know... Don't give me no gun in here!

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