Brian Earl Spilner said:
It's not better than 12. It's on par with it at best, but even 12 had more genuine laughs.
Obviously nowhere near 11 or even 13. As mentioned, it's a cheap knockoff of the original. It doesn't have half of the charm or the humor it had.
imho groups of women are never as funny as groups of men. call me sexist ok but there is a reason for it. women can be very funny of course, but groups lose their appeal for me from a humor standpoint.
1. women can't rip on each other like men it just seems catty when they do, guys do it as a form of bonding
2. women rarely if ever prank each other guys do it naturally even in serious settings
3. group dynamics are funny with a bunch of guys with women it's a beauty contest usually
and those were 3 major parts of the male Oceans movies
the brothers ripping on each other
pranking matt damon's character
even the bad guys (the marks) taking shots at danny et al, bravado, threats, etc.
matt damon's parents belittling him
ripping on the short guy, the nerdy guy, etc.
The group dynamic when they would get the whole team together was great for the men - just great interplay and non sequitur type conversations between the men.
And this had less group dynamics; mostly just Cate and Sandra talking, planning, recruiting and two on one with each of the others.. there was not much group interaction as a whole which the mens versions had a lot of.
Examples:
Remember in Oceans 12 when the mark prank called Danny with a 5am wakeup call.....6 hours earlier and he had drunk a whole pot of coffee..... so he and Rusty stayed up all night watching movies and TV (Happy Days).
The brothers just doing stupid crap like racing the full size truck and the mini truck.
All the BS dialog and codewords Danny and Rusty made up just to F with Linus.
etc. etc. etc.
