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{{short description|2002
{{Infobox film
| name = The Tuxedo
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| released = {{Film date|2002|09|27}}
| runtime = 98 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English<ref name="bbfc">{{cite web |title=THE TUXEDO {{!}} British Board of Film Classification |url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/tuxedo-2002 |website=bbfc.co.uk |access-date=2019-08-16 |archive-date=2019-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816131348/https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/tuxedo-2002 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| gross = $104.4 million<ref name="mojo" /><ref name="numbers">{{cite web |title= The Tuxedo (2002) - Financial Information |url= https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tuxedo-The#tab=summary |website= [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date= 2019-08-17 |archive-date= 2023-05-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230528014608/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tuxedo-The#tab=summary |url-status= live }}</ref>
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'''''The Tuxedo''''' is a 2002 American [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action comedy film]] directed by Kevin Donovan and starring [[Jackie Chan]] and [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]]. It is a spy [[parody]] that involves a special [[tuxedo]] that grants its wearer
The film received negative reviews from
== Plot ==
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At first, Blaine thinks Jimmy is weird and annoying, and then a fraud when Jimmy's impersonation is finally exposed. She confiscates his borrowed tuxedo and attempts to stop the evil Dietrich Banning on her own by feigning a desire to become a turncoat for Banning Corporation. Meanwhile, Jimmy is ready to give up and go back to his life as a taxi driver, but while packing his belongings he discovers that Devlin had ordered a [[Suit|second suit]] for Jimmy himself, believing that Jimmy could also be a great agent. Using his new suit, Jimmy defeats the [[villain]], Banning, by putting a cigarette in Blaine's mouth. Banning's tuxedo automatically forces him to pull out a lighter and light her cigarette. While Blaine is (comically) puffing on the lit cigarette, Jimmy begins to punch Banning. During the fight, Jimmy throws a glass containing the queen of the water striders into Banning's mouth. He is then infected with bacteria from the water strider. The other remaining water striders attack Banning and he then dies instantaneously from [[terminal dehydration]].
As compensation for his role in bringing down Banning, the organization uses its resources to orchestrate an operation so that Jimmy can finally meet his dream girl. However, confused by Blaine's and the now-recovered Devlin's conflicting instructions on how to act Jimmy succeeds only in alarming the girl into threatening to mace him, resulting in the operation being aborted.
== Cast ==
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* [[Bob Balaban]] as CSA Director Winton Chalmers (''uncredited'')
* [[Christian Potenza]] as CSA Agent Joel
* [[Scott Wickware]] as CSA Agent Wallace
* Karen Glave as CSA Agent Randa
* [[Scott Yaphe]] as CSA Agent Gabe
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== Production ==
Jackie Chan was unsure about the project adding special effects together with stunts, but was interested to work with DreamWorks for the chance to meet [[Steven Spielberg]].<ref name="Hart">{{cite news|title=His Career Is No Stunt|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=September 8, 2002|url=
[[Principal photography]] began in September 2001 and ended in January 2002. During filming in [[Toronto]], Chan and Love Hewitt appeared on an on-set webcam and interacted with fans.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt visit the Bagel Cam|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwT-I9tqco |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/_bwT-I9tqco| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|via= [[YouTube]] |access-date=16 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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# ''Jimmy Saves Blaine (1:50)''
# Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine) - [[James Brown]] (3:19)
== Reception ==
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=== Critical response ===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 21% based on
[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' commented that "The movie is silly beyond comprehension, and even if it weren't silly, it would still be beyond comprehension" but does comment that the film has its good moments. He gave the film one and a half stars out of four.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 27, 2002 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=The Tuxedo
Writing in the ''[[Asian Journal of Communication]]'' in 2013, academic Zheng Zhu listed the film alongside ''[[Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story]]'' (1993) and ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'' (2001) as films that broke from the Western tradition of portraying Asian men as asexual, stating that while they are often featured as heroes in martial arts films, they are rarely portrayed as romantic or loving. Noting the films each show an Asian martial artist with a white female partner, Zhu states they reverse the conventional portrayal of a "dominant white knight and a submissive Oriental lady". However, he makes critiques of the portrayal of these relationships. For example, each film shows "white women play[ing] the most important role" in helping Chinese men accomplish success. Asian men, Zhu argues, are portrayed as incapable of achieving success in Western society unless they are supported by white femininity.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=Zheng |date=2013 |title=Romancing 'kung fu master' – from 'yellow peril' to 'yellow prowess' |journal=[[Asian Journal of Communication]] |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=403–419|doi=10.1080/01292986.2012.756044 |s2cid=144868286 }}</ref>
▲[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' commented that "The movie is silly beyond comprehension, and even if it weren't silly, it would still be beyond comprehension" but does comment that the film has its good moments. He gave the film one and a half stars out of four.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 27, 2002 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=The Tuxedo Movie Review & Film Summary (2002) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-tuxedo-2002 |website=www.rogerebert.com |access-date=August 16, 2019 |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313000457/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20020927%2FREVIEWS%2F209270305%2F1023 |url-status=live }}</ref> Robert Koehler of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety magazine]]'' says that the film's central problem is the mix of Chan's actual stunts and effects, which plays against Chan's whole career and hard-core commitment to doing all of his own body-defying stunts. He notes that Hewitt "has displayed a Chan-like sweetness herself in past roles" and is disappointed that her character is "a haggling, high-strung shrew who’s instantly repellent" rather than an amusing sidekick as Chan has had in other Hollywood films. Koehler also criticizes the "pallid direction", and "virtually incomprehensible plot line".<ref>{{cite web |date= 26 September 2002 |author= Robert Koehler |title= The Tuxedo |url= https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-tuxedo-1200545889/ |website= Variety |access-date= 14 September 2019 |archive-date= 6 November 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191106105937/https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-tuxedo-1200545889/ |url-status= live }}</ref> American film critic [[Wheeler Winston Dixon]] described the trademark action comedy as having an "unlikely pairing" of Jennifer Love Hewitt with Chan, and noted that Chan's doing his own stunts, even in his middle age, added a "welcome touch of verisimilitude to the endless succession of doubles who normally populate such films."<ref name="twsWWDixon">[[Wheeler Winston Dixon]], 2003, Wallflower Press, London and New York, ''Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema'', retrieved November 28, 2014, {{ISBN|1-903364-74-4}} (paperback) {{ISBN|1-903364-38-8}} (hardcover), see page 18, lines 15–20</ref>
==Novelization==
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==External links==
* [http://www.dreamworks.com/dvd_features_tux.html Dreamworks SKG page]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225323/http://www.moviehole.net/news/20020924_360.html Jackie Chan interview for ''The Tuxedo'']
* {{mojo title|id=tuxedo|title=The Tuxedo}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0290095|title=The Tuxedo}}
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[[Category:Films with screenplays by Phil Hay (screenwriter)]]
[[Category:Parody films based on James Bond films]]
[[Category:English-language action adventure films]]
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