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Oh good grief...where do I begin?


Too many characters.

Thin plot.

A comedy without a single gag of any sort, intending only to rely upon sassy one-liners that often aren't that sassy.

Jason Weaver excepted, a "pretty people parade" full of stiff, supposedly sexy studs and fillies whose airbrushed bodies should overshadow their deficiencies in putting over the weak material. As such, Jason Weaver almost effortlessly runs off with this movie - he's the only character who comes off like a human being and not a Barbie doll. Some of these offenders can be seen to better effect in other productions.

A Rodney Jerkins cameo that goes on way too long and is way too self-congratulating.

As a positive, T.O. didn't embarrass himself. But it's not like he was up against an explosion of talent.

Oh, and hopefully the people from "The Big Chill" never see this.

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I was surprised that T.O. wasn't bad in this.

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YEah, it was pretty bad overall. But it was pretty much as I expected it to be. The subject matter was very predictable. I only watched it because I got it as a bootleg and was on the verge of throwing it away so I figured I'd watch it first. I was better off throwing it out. I agree there were too many characters as is often the case in black movies. They could have just kept the actress, the porn director, the ad man and his wife & secretary love triangle and the sports writer and Stacy Dash's character and made a movie around them.

The ladies looked good though. The two Stacys, Persia (wow was she a knockout) and Meagan Good were unbelievably hot. Tatyana Ali looked delicious too for the brief time she was onscreen.

And I agree, T.O. wasn't terrible though he really didn't have to stretch as he was merely playing himself. Im still not expecting to see him in any further movies though. An unremarkable debut.

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Ditto...that movie was bad. 3/10.

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IMO TO's acting sucked. It sounded as if he was reading from a cue card. I saw this a couple of months ago, but can't remember much besides that. Lol

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