Not good....Period.
After 10 years, I actually sat down to watch this film. I remember how my best friend kept saying you need to see this. I really found nothing positive in this film. To be a film produced by any studio, it was not very good. However this was the first attempt at production for the "Edmonds". Outside of "Soul Food" the series, the "Edmonds" have not done much serious production. "Soul Food" the film and "Light It Up" did look better, but that's it.
Back to this plot stricken film that lacks continuity and direction. Simply put "What The *beep* Is He Saying?" What is the storyline? What is he trying to say? I just watched it with my wife and 14 year old daughter. All three of us kept saying throughout the film what is the point? Where is it going? Why does he love this girl? Why does this girl keep him around? Why do the women berate him, then turn around and act like he is the second coming? Does he wash his clothes once during this film? Hell, he only washed his a$$ once in the film over a seemingly 3 day period! It says "A Year Later". It really looks like it took place a year later, because he put on a lot of weight.
Where was the character development? Are all middle class black people just a bunch of bourgeois, pretentious, no-direction fools? These people are made to look similar to the Huge Stereotype of all British people being a bunch of clueless, simple, middle-class eccentrics, with the only difference being that this group is quite foul with their language.
I did not laugh once. To call this a Love Story....Whatever!!! Go see Love Jones and get back to me. Hell the movie even had the gall to crack on Jason's Lyric. It wasn't an Oscar film either, but it is watchable. This film had "SOME" elements of "Sprung" by Rusty Cundieff. I know they both are around the same time, so did he "get inspiration" from or give it to that movie. Either way "Sprung" even with its over the top humor was easier to sit through and much better overall.
He kept saying that this is a true story...if it was, he should have wrote the TRUTH or told someone what happened and let a REAL screenplay person develop the story. He sold out only a little to get the girl and the movie, he says. If so she is just a gold-digger!!! Where is the love in that?!!!
I "HAV PLENTY" more to say, but I know I "HAV" said enough.
PS If you want to know why I don't Like "Soul Food" the movie, see the "The Itis" episode of the Boondocks. Now that was real.