Be Cool
Director: F. Gary Gray
Year Released: 2005
Rating: 0.0
Truly painful sequel to Get Shorty about Elmore Leonard's 'shylock' Chili Palmer moving on from the movie industry to the music industry where he has to be suffering from heat exhaustion (all that black clothing and whatnot) since he actually believes a girl from American Idol has serious talent. Basically an inside joke movie that (I hope) is funny to its cast since it's pure agony for the rest of us who have to endure watching director Gray give handjobs to Hollywood and popular recording artists like the dudes in Aerosmith and the Black Eyed Peas. In another bit of purely desperate inanity, The Rock's bodyguard character is made a homosexual so they can milk it for sub Will & Grace jokes. Barry Sonnenfeld, whose judgment and taste is off sometimes, should be lucky he had nothing to do with this - it's so friggin' bad it should be in detention.
