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Reviewed by Berge Garabedian :

I’m a huge fan of GET SHORTY, so the thought of a half-assed sequel which seemed to be relying its entire friggin’ marketing campaign around the reunion of Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace from Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (an entirely different movie with entirely different characters), scared the shit out of me. Add that to the fact that the first film was based around the movie industry—an industry which I quite enjoy myself—and featured stylish director Barry Sonnenfeld, versus the hip-hop music industry—an industry which I don’t quite enjoy myself—and director F. Gary Gray, well…let’s just say that when I sat down in my theater seat, I was ready to roll my eyes the whole way through this one. But it wasn’t so bad. In fact, I laughed here and there, Travolta looked great and his Chili Palmer character was right back where he left off in the previous flick. more..

Review By Joshua Tyler :

Sequel to the much touted 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld film Get Shorty, Be Cool revisits the character of Chili Palmer (John Travolta). Chili is still wearing black suits and there is much in the way of dark sunglasses evident, but few of the previous film’s cast are to be found aside from Travolta. I can’t say I mind, since beyond a general feeling of boredom and malaise, I don’t remember much about the original film anyway. More..

Reviewed by Ray :

At the beginning of BE COOL, movie producer Chili Palmer gets into a tirade about the pitfalls of doing sequels (like how you can get away with a PG-13 rating with one and only one F-word -- and that's exactly what BE COOL did). The tongue-in-cheek dialogue pretty much sums up this satirical sequel to the 1995 GET SHORTY. more..