Reviews

Honestly, I remember when this show first started; I thought it was brilliant! I have always loved Damon Wayans (especially in In Living Color) and when I saw that he was going to have his own family show, I thought perfect! I can't wait! Then, when I saw Tisha Campbell, I thought okay, wouldn't have chosen her, but alright.

When the show started, I was relieved. I was actually able to sit and watch, enjoy some good laughs...generally have fun watching it. But then, I went away for a year, wasn't able to watch it and have only gotten that chance recently. All I can ask myself is "WHAT HAPPENED?" Tisha Campbell is getting progressively louder and more like some brawling girl from the ghetto (which is why I had my doubts about her in the first place), Damon is simply irritating with the voices he puts on etc., Junior, if possible, is even more stupid than he was before, and that little boy Franklyn? Why is he even there? While he is very cute, unfortunately he is EQUALLY AS ANNOYING! He adds nothing, and manages to make the experience even more unenjoyable.

I can't take it anymore. The "jokes" aren't funny, the characters all grate on my last nerves, and I don't care what anybody says, but Damon acts soooooo GAY on 85% of the episodes that I don't get what is so funny about anything anymore.

GLAD IT'S ALL OVER NOW.

I am very sorry to all those out there who loved this movie, but it was ridiculous. Make no mistake, I am a HUGE Ben Stiller fan, but I'm sorry the characters were too stupid for me to take. I know that was the point of the whole film and all, but I couldn't take it. NOBODY is THAT dumb.

The whole thing with 'Blue Steel' and the other four or five 'looks' that were ALL THE SAME was a bit much for me. It wasn't funny, just plain stupid. And the issue of the files being in the computer and their spending all that time trying to figure out how to PHYSICALLY REMOVE them...and then that guy dropping the computer to get them out? I mean COME ON!!! I'm not a stick-in-the-mud or anything, but I can't deal with such blatant stupidity. And the few things I chuckled at in this film were corny rather than funny; the only reason I did chuckle was that I'd never heard anything cornier.

The best thing was the fact that so many celebrities had cameos in it, and then at the end their baby was really cute. Other than that, I'd prefer for Ben to stick to his normal humour...you know, the kind that's actually funny?

No wonder people have never heard of this movie. The only laughing I did was when I laughed at how crap the acting was, how lame and sometimes unnatural the dialogue was, and how lousy the thing was over all. I mean...WHAT ARE PEOPLE THINKING??????? Good LORD! Talk about your low-budget film - realistically speaking, who would have invested in this? The only person I knew in this movie was Brian Hooks, and he's already a somewhat corny, wannabe comedian(I barely tolerate him in 'Eve'.) The others I had never heard of, and I suppose will never hear of again after the 'acting skills' - or more accurately lack thereof - displayed in this piece of work.

The woman was incredibly whiny, the supporting actors (HA! HA! What in God's name were they supporting anyway?)were unrealistically and unbelievably cheesy and STUPID...and why is that when it comes to black comedies, there must be a wedding, some display of basketball, and some annoying female complaining "Oh I want to get married, I want to get married."

And the whole thing with the main character and his 'music'? We see him press two notes on a keyboard, they show some scantily clad woman doing a horrible job of mouthing the words to some tuneless, could-as-well-be-lyric-less piece and suddenly he's some 'talented' music producer? And what about that scene where he and his friend are in some car park - which i SWEAR is the same EXACT spot they used for the basketball scene along with about 4 others - with the trunk open, and some random man walks up to him and asks to buy a CD from them, and it turns out he's some hot-shot from a record label. I mean...COME ON!!!!! What record producer do you know who just hangs around in car parks waiting for some dimwit to sell CDs out of a trunk, then almost bends over backwards to help this joker? Are you kidding me with this????????????

Oh, and let's not forget the fact that this movie has no sense of time. One day they're at the wedding, the next the couple have been broken up for like 2 months? And the whole basketball issue seemed to happen all in one day, and sometime it was supposed to be day but it obviously been after 5 when they were shooting the scene so it was kinda dark and shadows were just all over the place... I mean, SPRING FOR SOME LIGHTING APPARATUS, WOULD YOU!!?? Good LORD!!!!

I mean, I know when you're in a movie, people think it's a big deal, but if I were any of these characters, I would try to AVOID people knowing that I had any part in the writing, the producing, the directing, the acting, or even the make-up department of this film!!! If I was rating this honestly, I would give it a -50 out of 10, but unfortunately this thing doesn't go any lower than 1.

Wow. That's about as much as I can say right now. Who writes this stuff? Who produces this stuff? What self-respecting actor would agree to 'act' in this stuff? Oh my GOD! I don't know how I made it through this movie, but I assume the fact that I had had like 8 cups of coffee that day was the key element in keeping me awake. Good Lord! It was one of the most droned-out and predictable pieces of cinematography I have ever witnessed...and for the record, I don't EVER plan to 'witness' it again.

I first saw the film when I bought the DVD (MISTAKE #1). I mean...I figured, hey! Julia Stiles. I like her. She's cool. I'll watch it as soon as I get home (MISTAKE #2). I tried to watch it without groaning every five minutes wondering when this bunch of crap would come to an end, really I did. But I was unsuccessful. It was one of the worst things I had ever seen. I mean...what is with that thing where he imagines what would happen then snaps back into real life? That was annoying enough when the father used to do that in 'Parenthood' like ten years ago. The 'jokes' - and BELIEVE me, it takes a LOT out of me to call them that - are stupid, the characters are trite and forgettable, the storyline is entirely predictable...altogether this makes for a movie that should be WIPED FROM HISTORY RECORDS! I should have figured something was wrong when I realized that I'd never heard of this movie. It was most likely a straight-to-DVD.

To anybody who may be thinking of watching this, I have one piece of advice. DON'T! For the LOVE of God...DON'T!!! I'm ashamed to have it in my DVD collection, and I can't get rid of it...Nobody, and I mean NOBODY wants to buy it from me! And I'm talking second-hand and third-hand thrift shops that would buy the mud off your shoes and stick it in the store window. That should let you know just how CRAP it is.