Director: Gary Ross
Main Cast: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Richard Armitage, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Awkwafina, Sarah Paulson, Dakota Fanning
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Plot: Debbie Ocean, the sister of Danny Ocean, finishes a prison sentence and assembles an all-female crew to attempt the impossible – a diamond heist during the New York City annual Met Gala.
My Thoughts: I can’t even tell you how much fun this movie is. To all the ladies out there, grab your girlfriends, order some takeout, but don’t stick on that well-used copy of Bridesmaids, watch this instead. While you’re at it, don’t leave the boys out, because there’s plenty here for everyone to enjoy!
Honestly, all I really want to do is rave about how amazing the opening scenes are with Sandra Bullock. I came out of Need for Speed wanting to drive my Fiat 500 like a Lambourgini, I came out of Wonder Woman feeling like I could kick someone’s ass, and I came out of Ocean’s Eight with an incredible impulse to shoplift. I didn’t, of course, but she made it look so easy! I just love Sandra Bullock so much.
If you’ve seen a lot of heist movies (I haven’t) then there’s probably nothing new here, but the ride is fun enough regardless. Also, I normally hate when singers turn up in movies thinking they can act, but I really enjoyed Rihanna’s performance!
With my serious hat on, it was so great to have an all-female main cast where each character got roughly the same amount of limelight, and each of their roles in the heist was just as important as the others, making them all equal. These ladies kick ass!
Best Bit: Watching Sandra Bullock manage to shoplift all those cosmetics with such ease and confidence. I couldn’t work out how her approach was going to work but when it clicked for me, it was so funny.
Worst Bit: So, we ended up picking the only showing of the day which had subtitles, which was annoying as hell because even though I didn’t need them I couldn’t stop myself from reading them!
Fun Trivia: In her 2011 book, Mindy Kaling expressed an interest in wanting to do a reboot of Ocean’s 11, called Ocean’s 5, that would feature an all-female cast.
My Rating: I was going to do diamonds, but that seemed too obvious, so I’m giving it 4 out of 5 nine-balls!
“and I came out of Ocean’s Eight with an incredible impulse to shoplift.”
OMG, lol! XD
Nice review, Allie. Glad you enjoyed this one. It didn’t set my world on fire, but I still dug it all the same. 🙂 Strange that they’d show a subtitled version for a movie in your native language, though. I assume that’s a regular thing over there? o.O
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For the record I didn’t, and still haven’t, shoplifted xD
The subtitles thing, yeah it is! There’s several showing where they give out headphones to audio-describe the movie but there’s also one showing a day with subtitles for anyone who’s deaf. It’s a nice thing to do of course but it’s so distracting!
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Yay! This was indeed great fun! I hope there will be an Ocean’s 9 or something.
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That would be amazing! I’d be first in line, or second, behind you 😀
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And she also scored that swanky hotel room! I was highly impressed 🙂 I particularly loved Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter in this- hopefully we get a second!
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I would absolutely love a second! Normally I’m not fussed with sequels but I would happily watch these ladies again!
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I thought it was just an OK movie, but happy to read that you enjoyed it lots more 🙂
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I totally get you, I think it’s Sandra Bullock herself that made it for me 🙂
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Yes that shoplifting thing was for the lack of a better or more appropriate word inspiring 😀 Bullock was so much fun to watch in this movie, hell all of them were!
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Inspiring is a brilliant word for it, haha!
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Awesome review! I had a lot of fun at this one too and definitely came out with the feeling like I could swipe some stuff and get away with it. lol It’d be awesome if there was another one with these ladies.
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I would so be in for another movie. Also, I wonder if shoplifting has been on the rise since it was released?
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