Ocean's Thirteen

(First, why is it Ocean's *Thirteen*? Just because it's third?) Better than the second, just as fluffy and pointless as the first two. Enjoyable. But less of the fun Danny/Rusty totally ghei interaction and dialogue and more of those supposedly tense moments where we're supposed to think the gang hasn't accounted for every possibility and oh no! they might not get away with it. Please.

However Turk and Virgil are hilarious. Don Cheadle as Basher is as amazing as ever, and I enjoy the stories of our fictionally generous and kind hearted con artists and thieves. And...yeah...the NOSE. The nose totally plays. I am now in love with
Linus' fake nose. I am not generally a Matt Damon fan...but Linus in this movie is just sort of endearing, and his creepy slicked-back hair, big nose, grey military style Nehru jacket (which makes him look oddly like George McFly) was just...hot. And yeah...making out with Ellen Barkin...a guy could do worse. That was, in this kinky, twisted way, my favorite part of the film although they didn't do enough with it and sort of tossed aside that plotpoint later. I mean, it's crucial for him to distract Ellen Barkin's character Abigail and he (way too excited) volunteers to seduce her and is just adorable and insecure about his evident attraction to this cougar (something he read about in Maxim and confesses to all abashed and even more adorable) and they go through all this effort to show Abigail as someone nice and not as evil as her boss (a totally wasted Al Pacino) and then...her story doesn't get resolved. Grrrrrr. I wonder if it was the age difference? If they thought that would freak people out, like Ellen Barkin isn't hot as fuck).

But, as my friend Ali said afterward, Linus is *so* Danny and Rusty's gay son. And that is just precious.