silly and hilarious and tragic and sad and inevitable . a group of down and out team up with a seasoned crook to elevate themselves out of their poverty . great idea . if you ignore the screwup factor . nice to see george clooney do something genuinely funny for a change . the casting be perfect and the acting standard very high . although it could be say that the motley crew subject isn not new and i think this movie handle it in an interesting and unique way . sufficiently so that it stand out from what have go before . very well do guy .