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Summary: THE BEST FILM THIS YEAR!!!
Review: IF YOU LIKE 'BOYZ IN THE HOOD' AND 'MENACE II SOCIETY', THEN YOU WILL TOTALLY LOVE THIS FILM!!! TYRESE AND SNOOP ARE WICKED IN THIS TOO. LADY'S IF YOU LIKE TYRESE- YOU GOTTA BUY THIS [darn] FILM!!!IT'S EXCELLENT!!!(SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER REVIEWERS WERE WATCHIN, BUT DON'T LISTEN TO THEM!)
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Summary: Strickly Fiction; Not For Home Use Please.....
Review: The movie was entertaining, and that's it. For those who experianced a moment of dejavu, well it's time to make some "MAJOR" changes.Ving was good and the music was great. NO not the rap selections featured on the soundtrack... The OLDIES! Now why didn't they make a soundtrack of those, it would have sold more copies, that's just my opinion..
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Summary: Baby Boy growing up!!!
Review: Baby boy was a good movie because of alot of truth. The situation with Jody and his baby's momma has happened many times. All a girl wants is her man to be true. This is a story of a brotha who needed to grow up and realize what he was about to lose. It took alot for him to realize it, but he finally did and I personally thought the movie was GREAT. I highly recommend this film.
Rating: 
Summary: MisUnderstood
Review: The problem with the reviews that people have been giving towards this movie, is they don't understand it. If you scratch the surface, you will find meaning behind this whole movie. This film relates to anybody out there with their dilemmas, their struggles, and their conflicts with life and everything pertaining to it. The language was one of the key factors of this movie. This is how people talk, and this graphic language ACTUALLY gets the point across. Listen closely...
Rating:
Summary: Exaggerated Ghettoism!
Review: The problem with this movie was that Singleton seemed like he was trying to make a "ghetto" movie. Yeah,you can find folks in the hood who talk and act like what you saw in the movie,but even they don't finish EVERY sentence with nigga. I never knew there were that many niggaz around. It's like Singleton just told everybody to just act "ghetto" when the cameras start rolling.
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Summary: Young and Dumb
Review: Big Ving and his green thumb women make this slice o' life from South Central watchable. Their wisdom, in stark contrast to Baby Boy's blinkerdom, rings out in a film that's too long, too scrubbed and way too sugar coated at the end. Fathom this: Baby Boy dodges his rival's (Snoop Dogg) caps, helps smoke the same dude, wins back his Baby Mama #1 after cheating and sponging without contrition and completely avoids any police murder investigation. Hmm, who had a motive? Guess the LAPD just wanted that skinny brutha dead as Hammer. Please. The expletive loaded exchanges between Baby Boy and his Baby Mamas entertain, but they're stagey and pretty unconvincing. "I hate you!" -- no she don't. Watch this Singleton joint for Ving. Recognize the grandeur of the Old Skool.
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Summary: Seen it... done it..!!
Review: Two words! Ghetto fabulous!! This movie portrays a few cute ladies and a few sex crazed brothers living in the infamous HOOD with no jobs, cars or sense of responsibility. If you only want to see some folks get their freak on, steal clothes and make like it's all good... this is it. If you are looking for morality and good old common sense... find a Denzel flick. I give this 2 stars out of five, just because Ving Rhames did ok in this. Tyrese should have waited for a better script. He did ok, but the movie was all about "nothing". I know people like this, so it wasn't like seeing anything new and refreshing! I felt that none of the characters had any sense, the mother, girlfriend and home-boys etc, were just extra ghetto fab. It would have been better had they shown you more of a positive transistion from immaturity to maturity. Also, why did Ving have to be an ex-convict? Why did he grow weed in momma's garden? Is Tyrese attracted to his mom sexually? Why is he hitting and running between several women? Did he ever leave L.A. in his life? Ok, his brother got kicked out of mom's and then killed in the streets... but did the brother run with a gang or was it an accidental shooting??? None of this made any sense and never was explained. Wait for this one on HBO. Buy a book instead of this one.
Rating:
Summary: Not Bad But A Little Too Ghetto!
Review: Okay, this movie had a message, particularly for young black men, namely get a job, stop hiding under mama and for God's sake stop running around with chickenhead's and losers who aren't about anything but living to see the next day. I mean come on, there are lots of young black men who hide behind their mama's still live with their mama's and really don't know what they are going to do with their lives. There's always work at the post office and the military will at least get you outta the house (join the Air Force, not the Navy or Marines if you know what's good for you!) So I don't buy into the idea of their not being any hope for urban black youth, life is hard but c'mon now! I thought the beginning of this movie was insightful but the rest of it seemed to go in all sorts of directions. Jody and nearly every black person in this movie is overly obsessed with sex and saying four-letter words. I think this movie beats Casino in the cussing category. It seems like Jody spends too much time getting mad about Melvin and his mom and not doing something more practical like finding a decent job and moving out. And his babies mamas, these women need to take classes on raising their self-esteen, seems like they don't particularly mind being nothing more than sex objects and of course cussing like sailors when their kids are around. I mean I don't care how urban you are, and I grew up in an urban neighborhood and I am from a dysfunctional family but you know what, I moved out at twenty, I worked my way through college and I am on my own. What's Jody's excuse? This movie teaches a lesson but it has to go over the river and through the woods to do it and by that time your mind is cluttered with all the bajillion sex scenes in the movie. Geez this movie could be shown for the soft-core porn on cable. I mean I don't know any black people who act like the people in this movie and I grew up in a similar neighborhood.
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Summary: SOOOOO BORING
Review: ok dont bother with this DVD, the first scene is the best of the whole movie the rest is just kinda boring, i watched it with friends and it barely keept us entertained. It was a real let down... i now have it on DVD and will never watch it again. waste of money... nothing like Singletons other movies Dont bother ...
Rating: 
Summary: I JUST TOOK IT FOR WHAT IT IS...
Review: I've read the reviews of "Baby Boy"-the 2001 John Singleton film-
and came to see that many of them portrayed the movie as sterotypical and predictible.Well,I'm sorry but I didn't see
"Baby Boy" like that.I felt that it was a honest,well-directed
film that explored many "touchy" issues.I mean,it's basically a
vivid coming of age movie...except it's set in the hood of South Central L.A.Just like Singleton's 1991 breakthrough debut,"Boyz
N The Hood"(note:this is NOT a sequel). "Baby Boy" tells the story of Jody,played by model/singer Tyrese
Gibson(whose strong performance proves that (some) singers can actually act),a young Black male in South Central with no job,
no direction,and no real self-pride(come on,he lives with his mother!-whose 36!).He's a job-less twenty-year-old with two children by two different woman.And he and his mother's
boyfriend-played by Ving Rhames- bump heads many times in the film.(Rhames' charcter is actually a former wife-beater/
ex-convict).And basically the story goes on from there...well,
not really.But I didn't really write this review to tell the entire plot of "Baby Boy",but rather to voice my opinion on "Baby Boy"'s images. STEROTYPICAL is a term I hear a lot when people bring up "Baby
Boy".Well,I mean they have a point.A Black man with no job,no life,and no real life skills...Is this "Amos & Andy" or a film
made in 2001? And the Black woman in the film are protrayed as
dependants and somewhat shallow.They'd let a man talk down to them,cheat on them,and/or hit them BUT if the sex is right-all is
forgiven.And again,the Black men in the movie are very unflattering.One may conclude that they are lazy,shuffless
thugs.It would be nice to have more rounded,diverse protrayals of
Black men around in films. Yet while I can see where the nay-sayers are coming from in a way I also don't feel offended by "Baby Boy".To Singleton's credit,the characters are never turned into carictures.
They're humans.And they never come off exgrated-unlike other
movies set in a "hood" environment."Baby Boy" is a stroy estienally(sp.) we all can relate to -in ways.
"Baby Boy" is deeper than an ordinary "hood" flick.In a lot of ways it seems like "Baby Boy" is more of an observation than
a statement.In that respect,I don't find the movie's
characterizations to be that negative. All in all,I feel that "Baby Boy" is showing a diversity in black images.Yes,I love films like "Best Man" and "love jones"
and the like BUT all brothers and sisters DON'T live like that and so I feel that they should be represented as well.
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