History YMMV / OceansEleven

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: When Reuben has a heart attack after being betrayed in Thirteen, the rest of the Eleven drop whatever they were doing to be by his side.
** Basher, in particular, writes Reuben many encouraging letters, with the hope that they will help him recover.
Reuben thanks him at the end, saying that the letters did indeed help.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: When Reuben has a heart attack after being betrayed, the rest of the Eleven drop whatever they were doing to be by his side.
** Basher, in particular, writes Reuben many encouraging letters, with the hope that they will help him recover. Reuben thanks him at the end, saying that the letters did indeed help.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the big misdirections of ''Eleven'' is planting the seeds that Saul, played by 78-year-old Carl Reiner, is in poor health throughout, with little tremors and sweats, leading to his HollywoodHeartAttack, which is revealed as part of the con; as Saul asserts to Danny, he's perfectly fine and even repels down to the vault during the heist with the others. This was true of Carl Reiner too; he lived another ''20 years'' after production before passing away at the age of 98 in 2020.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the big misdirections of ''Eleven'' is planting the seeds that Saul, played by 78-year-old Carl Reiner, is in poor health throughout, with little tremors and sweats, leading to his HollywoodHeartAttack, which is revealed as part of the con; as Saul asserts to Danny, he's perfectly fine and even repels down to the vault during the heist with the others. This is true of Carl Reiner too; he lived another ''20 years'' after production before passing away at the age of 98 in 2020.

* RewatchBonus: Danny and Rusty are quite the master manipulators. Pay attention to not only how they manipulate their marks in their heists, but also their crew members into joining them and doing their part in the heists, Linus in particular.

** Alternatively, some see 'Thirteen' as SoOkayIt'sAverage because it's an inferior copy of 'Eleven' [a case of It'sTheSameNowItSucks] but still superior to 'Twelve'.

** Also, don't say that you didn't feel sorry for the real Five Diamond hotel reviewer, the self-called "V.U.P.", when the team puts him through the worst hotel stay of his life. As compensation, the team sets him up to [[spoiler:"win" an ''eleven'' million dollar jackpot as compensation]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Frank Catton gets transferred to Las Vegas on the grounds that it'll be better for his health and it is implied to be related to a lung disease (he coughs during his transfer scene). In the film, it looks like he could be faking or overplaying the health benefits in order to be part of the robbery team. In real life Creator/BernieMac had Sarcoidosis which often targets the lungs. He died from complications related to pneumonia.

--->"They got cameras, they got vaults, they got watchers, they got locks. They got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris! Okay. [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Bad]] [[LesCollaborateurs example.]]"

* MoralEventHorizon: In-Universe in the third movie, Bank crosses it when he cuts Reuben out of his share of the casino and threatens him with death if he doesn't accept the ''drastically'' unfair deal. [[ArcWords He shook Sinatra's hand. He should know better.]]

* EarWorm:
** So much of the ''Ocean's Eleven'' soundtrack qualifies as this. Everyone on the DVDCommentary mentions how the music flows seamlessly into and out of the scenes, and Andy Garcia mentions how some of it reminds him of the old ''Tijuana Brass'' songs. Special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdDxaCv2uw Pickpockets]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5Py3i-h8c $160 Million Chinese Man]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Uo5kcDpyg Clair De Lune]], and Music/ElvisPresley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0MyEHWKbY A Little Less Conversation]], the last of which was saved from obscurity, remixed for the movie, and became a radio hit.
** ''Ocean's Twelve's'' infamous laser dance scene is accompanied by La Caution's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Xx0k_TVY0 Thé à la Menthe]]. Good luck getting that out of your head.
* EstrogenBrigade: Most of the cast.

** Some of the fake-outs in the climax of ''Eleven'' have even more of an effect if you've seen the original Sinatra movie first. Specifically, the oldest member of the crew seeming to up and die without much warning [[spoiler: (as Richard Conte's character did in the original)]]...and ultimately, [[spoiler: the money supposedly being burned to a crisp]] (like the TwistEnding of the original). Alas, if you've seen ''this'' movie first, this ''might'' result in [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny your expecting similar fake-outs in the original]]...which don't happen.

** Danny and Rusty are bad enough to the extent that Brad Pitt confirmed that Rusty's relationship with Isabel was mostly added because Rusty was AmbiguouslyGay enough in ''Eleven'' that they wanted to clear up any misconceptions about it.

* MemeticMutation: Basher's "You had ONE JOB to do!" from the first film is often used in response to people who [[ViolationOfCommonSense violate common sense]] or [[EpicFail fail spectacularly at a simple task]].

* InferredHolocaust: So the pinch (EMP Bomb) going off killed a boat load of people right? We see it affects most of Vegas. Think all the traffic lights going out (especially in a town with a lot of drunk tourists like Vegas), people on life support in hospitals. That's without counting injuries. The movie shows people in just one Casino going nuts and basically rampaging from 30 seconds of darkness. Multiply that across the entirety of Vegas...

** So much of the ''Ocean's Eleven'' soundtrack qualifies as this. Everyone on the DVDCommentary mentions how the music flows seamlessly into and out of the scenes, and Andy Garcia mentions how some of it reminds him of the old ''Tijuana Brass'' songs. Special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdDxaCv2uw Pickpockets]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5Py3i-h8c $160 Million Chinese Man]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Uo5kcDpyg Claire De Lune]], and Music/ElvisPresley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0MyEHWKbY A Little Less Conversation]], the last of which was saved from obscurity, remixed for the movie, and became a radio hit.

* EarWorm: S
** o much of the ''Ocean's Eleven'' soundtrack qualifies as this. Everyone on the DVDCommentary mentions how the music flows seamlessly into and out of the scenes, and Andy Garcia mentions how some of it reminds him of the old ''Tijuana Brass'' songs. Special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdDxaCv2uw Pickpockets]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5Py3i-h8c $160 Million Chinese Man]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Uo5kcDpyg Claire De Lune]], and Music/ElvisPresley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0MyEHWKbY A Little Less Conversation]], the last of which was saved from obscurity, remixed for the movie, and became a radio hit.

* EarWorm: So much of the ''Ocean's Eleven'' soundtrack qualifies as this. Everyone on the DVDCommentary mentions how the music flows seamlessly into and out of the scenes, and Andy Garcia mentions how some of it reminds him of the old ''Tijuana Brass'' songs. Special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdDxaCv2uw Pickpockets]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5Py3i-h8c $160 Million Chinese Man]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Uo5kcDpyg Claire De Lune]], and Music/ElvisPresley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0MyEHWKbY A Little Less Conversation]], the last of which was saved from obscurity, remixed for the movie, and became a radio hit.

* GeniusBonus: Some of the fake-outs in the climax of ''Eleven'' have even more of an effect if you've seen the original Sinatra movie first. Specifically, the oldest member of the crew seeming to up and die without much warning [[spoiler: (as Richard Conte's character did in the original)]]...and ultimately, [[spoiler: the money supposedly being burned to a crisp]] (like the TwistEnding of the original). Alas, if you've seen ''this'' movie first, this ''might'' result in [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny your expecting similar fake-outs in the original]]...which don't happen.

** Also, don't say that you didn't feel sorry for the real Five Diamond hotel reviewer when the team puts him through the worst hotel stay of his life. As compensation, the team sets him up to [[spoiler:"win" an ''eleven'' million dollar jackpot as compensation]].

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: While not as well received as the first film, ''Ocean's Thirteen'' got a pretty good reception and was considered an improvement over the second film, which was generally regarded as mediocre.

* EarWorm: So much of the ''Ocean's Eleven'' soundtrack qualifies as this. Everyone on the DVD commentary mentions how the music flows seamlessly into and out of the scenes, and Andy Garcia mentions how some of it reminds him of the old ''Tijuana Brass'' songs. Special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdDxaCv2uw Pickpockets]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5Py3i-h8c $160 Million Chinese Man]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Uo5kcDpyg Claire De Lune]], and Elvis Presley's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0MyEHWKbY A Little Less Conversation]], the last of which was saved from obscurity, remixed for the movie, and became a radio hit.