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Here's why: Julia's out…and Al's in. Roberts and Pacino are two big face cards in the superstar deck. She's bigger right now, but he's got the historical record.
For me personally, losing Julia's humorless angry intensity (right for "Erin," wrong for "Ocean's") and gaining Pacino's self-amused hammy angry intensity, is a big plus. Pacino joins DeNiro and Nicholson as a one-time prestige great now accused of "selling out and becoming a big ham." So what?
Pacino proved himself, and nothing's more fun that Big Al on a verbal roll. (How we got from quiet Michael Corleone to "Hoo-ah!" is anybody's guess.
Scarface opened the door.) What's great about the "Ocean's" movies is that they really DO have an all-star cast. Well, at least four: Clooney, Pitt, Damon, and…whoever the other big star is.
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