Good start, but then it gets ruined

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Best movie ever!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Travola has been apart of two of the worst movie ever to be on the big screen. This mess and Battlefield Earth. What makes this movie so bad is that it is a sequel to a very good movie "Get Shorty". There should not have been a sequel to Get Shorty. Where Get Shorty was original and creative, this movie was a complete money grab put together like a PB&J sandwich for a kid late for school. The premise was bad, the acting awful and about a third of the movie was a musical. I didn't care for any of the singing or Vince Vaughn's wannabe pimp acting. Vince Vaughn is usually hysterical. He was just corny. The Rock didn't help much either. This movie was just cheesy and immature. I don't know how this movie wasn't dismissed.

There are occasions when I like a sequel more than the original. Be Cool is one of these. I liked Get Shorty, but it was a little disturbing with some of the violence. I honestly think that Be Cool is much funnier. One way I know I like a movie is if I am channel surfing and I see a movie I know and I stop to watch it again. Well, I did that with Get Shorty the other night, and I realized I like Be Cool better.I think the main reason is the comic performances by actors like Vince Vaughn, who plays a bumbling, silly gangster wannabe (Raji). He is hung out over the edge of the building and he tries to spell his name and can't do it and that cracked me up. I also like Cedric the Entertainer who plays a movie producer (Sin LaSalle) with hired gangster enforcers that he has to tell to be quiet in his upscale neighborhood because they're playing their SUV stereos too loud.Dwayne Johnson (The Rock from WWE) plays a recording star-wannabe/enforcer for the Vince Vaughan character, and is very funny. Robert Pastorelli gets a fun appearance as a mafia assassin (Joe Loop), and chokes to death eating a ham and coleslaw sandwich as Vince Vaughan tries to intimidate him with a red aluminum baseball bat.So maybe I'm the only person that liked this movie, and the comic memories it has for me. Just to give you an idea of other sequels I like better than the originals there's Die Hard II, and Star Trek II.Add in another good comic performance by Andre' Benjamin (Dabu) and I must say this is a funny, enjoyable movie at least for me. Perhaps people don't like this movie because it seems like John Travolta (Chili Palmer) is pretty much a straight man for Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andre' Benjamin, but hey you don't have good comedy without a good straight man. And here's my spoiler, I liked the ending, and the unique way the credits were rolled.

There's a line in Be Cool that sums up the whole film for me. Stephen Tyler shows up and, upon seeing Uma Thurman, says, "Look at how those legs come together and make an ass out of themselves!" It's a cringe worthy, groan inducing, forced line that tries to be hip and cool and clever. But it isn't, and neither is this movie. There are a number of little "aren't they clever?" lines and scenes and they all, without exception, flop.When Travolta and Thurman get up and dance it's supposed to evoke the twist contest from Pulp Fiction, but it's nowhere near as stylish and evocative. Worse, it doesn't really add to the overall plot (of which there is very little). The Pulp Fiction scene was a crucial part of the story, full of tension and desire, but here it seems it's only done so the viewer will say, "Hey! That's just like the Pulp Fiction scene! Aren't they clever?"I hate characters like Vince Vaughn's jive talking fool, and the other gangsters are just stupid. Worst of all is Travolta as he sleepwalks through this role, looking older than his character should be. He and Thurman display almost none of the chemistry they had in Pulp Fiction. When the two of them come together, they make an ass out of themselves.Hey! Did you catch that last line? Isn't it cool and hip and clever? No, it's not, and neither is this film. Watch Get Shorty again if you want to see Travolta in an entertaining movie. Not this. It's definitely not cool.

For some reason, so many people hate on "Be Cool". I do not agree with them. You should understand, this is not some highly sophisticated movie, it's just a fun movie, with some awesome and funny characters, played by some of Hollywood's best comedians. The plot may not make sense completely, but who cares - you just enjoy the movies, the inside jokes, the hilarious characters. I wasn't bored in any minute of "Be Cool", and while it was not on the same level of "Get Shorty", well, it was still close. The script might not be the best one around, but I think that wasn't the whole point of this movie. It makes fun of the industry, of various clichés, and even of itself.