Ocean's Twelve (2004)

I'm not very crafty.... Each November, etc.

This was another one to which I'm glad I didn't devote complete attention. To spend more than two hours (!) doing nothing other than looking at this would've been preposterous. Sure, everyone on screen seems to be having fun and I've read a couple of interviews with the cast in which they uphold the apparently agreed-upon "it was soooo great!" story, but I'm not buying it.

What this reminded me of was the time when I was in high school and a big group of us went to Disney World for the day. I had a crush on a guy and had hopes of that I'd eventually be holding his hand in the Haunted Mansion. Cute little Dana apparently had the same idea and we weren't even off the monorail before it was obvious that he'd not be spending any time with me without some serious effort on my part. So I had SO MUCH FUN. I laughed a lot and jumped into group photos of Asian tourists and carried around a Mickey balloon I sweet-talked the vendor into giving me for free and was the freakin' life of the party. I was sure that he'd leave much-less-interesting Dana behind and rush to my exuberant side just to get a piece of the excitement I was generating.

Didn't work for me. Doesn't work for Clooney.

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