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Be Cool
Directed by
F. Gary Gray
2005
1h 58m
PG-13
Comedy
,
Crime
,
Music
5.6
30%
42%
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Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.
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Cast of Be Cool
John Travolta
Chili Palmer
Uma Thurman
Edie Athens
Vince Vaughn
Raji
Cedric the Entertainer
Sin LaSalle
Dwayne Johnson
Elliot Wilhelm
André 3000
Dabu
Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler
Robert Pastorelli
Joe Loop
Christina Milian
Linda Moon
Paul Adelstein
Hy Gordon
Debi Mazar
Marla
Gregory Alan Williams
Darryl
Harvey Keitel
Nick Carr
Danny DeVito
Martin Weir
James Woods
Tommy Athens
Anthony J. Ribustello
Fast Freddie
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Fred Durst
Fred Durst
Sérgio Mendes
Sergio Mendes
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
RZA
RZA
Joe Perry
Joe Perry
Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith
Alex Kubik
Roman Bulkin
Darren Carter
Glenn
Carol Duboc
Pumpkin
Minae Noji
Miss Bangkok
Arielle Kebbel
Robin
Kimberly J. Brown
Tiffany
Margaret Travolta
Marge
Scott Adsit
Program Director
Brian Christensen
Hairy Russian
Nick Loren
Assistant Director
Craig Susser
Assistant Director
George Fisher
Ivan
Sahar Simmons
Sin LaSalle's Wife
Serdar Kalsin
Bearded Russian
Russ Irwin
Russ Irwin
Joey Kramer
Joey Kramer
Brad Whitford
Brad Whitford
Tom Hamilton
Tom Hamilton
Joyce Tolbert
Backup Singer
Noelle Scaggs
Backup Singer
Will.i.am
Will.i.am
Fergie
Fergie
Apl.de.Ap
Apl.de.Ap
Taboo
Taboo
Carmen Getit
Carmen Getit
Steve Lucky
Steve Lucky
Kimberly Wyatt
Pussycat Doll
Kasey Campbell
Pussycat Doll
Ashley Roberts
Pussycat Doll
Nicole Scherzinger
Pussycat Doll
Shanell Woodgett
Music Video Dancer
Clifford McGhee
Music Video Dancer
Christopher Toler
Music Video Dancer
Ivan 'Flipz' Velez
Music Video Dancer
Donyelle Denise Jones
Music Video Dancer
Gustavo Vargas
Swing Dancer
Frank Lloyd
A&R Guy
Melody Thornton
Pussycat Doll
Alison Faulk
Swing Dancer
Seth Green
Shotgun - Music Video Director (uncredited)
Kari Ruth
Woman in office with Tommy
Be Cool Reviews
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
Chock-full of the kind of power moments that are extremely useful in assembling a trailer. But the filmmakers forgot something: a good story to hold the celebrity bric-a- brac and shtick together.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The moment you formally anoint something as cool, you kill the qualities that made it cool to begin with, because coolness has no greater enemy than self-awareness.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'
Denver Post
Michael Booth
It can't decide if it's a comedy or a musical -- rocking ballads by Milian and a duet with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are sweet interludes but ruinous to any sense of paced humor.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
It's unchallenging but amusing enough.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's instantly forgettable, but smooth fun most of the way.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
There's really no need to pay much attention to the plot.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A messy, overlong film, but it's impossible to take seriously and therefore more than a little entertaining.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
This bumbling exercise in redundant replication is as disagreeably lukewarm as a heavily trafficked municipal baby pool.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's a step down, a big one, on both fronts and neither does the kind of job here that could be construed as anything remotely their best.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Keeps wandering off on tangents, and after a while its audience does, too.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
I was really glad when it was over.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
One of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The book's various thugs, pistol-waving gangstas and Russian mafia are so cartoonishly portrayed they're about as scary as members of the Wile E. Coyote Fan Club.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Utterly forgettable -- and, yes, utterly uncool.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The movie lacks anything approaching a rhythm -- which, as everyone knows, is the record business' deadliest sin.
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