Rating: 
Summary: Funny As Hell!
Review: This movie is no doubt funny as hell. I love Queen Latifah. The way she talks in this movie is great. I had to laugh at most of all the stuff she had to say about in any situation. I saw this movie the same night as the movie Chicago. I told myself that this another dvd I have to own. It's great and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it!
Rating: 
Summary: Steve Martin came through again
Review: In this comedy about a tax lawyer and a "gangsta" convict girl, Steve Martin and Queen Latifa had great on-screen chemistry. I felt that they worked very well together. The dialogue was fun, creative, and often hilarious. Easily influenced kids should probably not view this film, because it contains a lot of racist comments that could be very offensive off-screen. Other than that, its PG-13 rating reflects sexual content, some profanity and drug use. Bringing Down the House was fun and funny. Like most comedies, it is not the most deep or realistic movie. It is just a feel good comedy that can get your mind off the world. There are some similarities between this and its director Adam Shankman's other works, "The Wedding Planner" and "A Walk to Remember," but it is still very original. I give it 4 stars out of 5. It's fun to watch.
Rating: 
Summary: Shamefull
Review: Past the hilarious cast (Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy) lies a poor film. All three of these people have made bad films, but with the amount of talent here, I would have anticipated at least 3 stars. Some of the boggest laughs from the audience were very stupid. I thought this film was racist. Let me explain. Mrs. Arness brings "new meanings to conservatism." The neigbor across the street is racist; when Steve Martin brings Queen Latifah home, he hides her-what idiot goes out of there way just to make a jerk happy? The audience was laughing at the ways he was hiding her when his neighbor came over-if that was me, I would have had her be in sight and told my neigbor to heal with it. Also, Steve Martin makes Queen Latifah wear a maid suit. Also, a lady at a restraunt thinks Queen Latifah is a waitress, just because she's an African American. Racism is a subplot, and it did not get a single laugh from me. But the rest of the film stinks, too, like the whole thing with Martin's first wife. I liked Eugene Levy and the whole "You got me straight trippin', boo." I though he was good natured, and I liked the scenes with him. The kid "reading" is just stupid. I kept thinking, what are these people laughing AT? I amy nevr know. Thank you for taking the time to read my review and feel free to leave me a helpful/not helpful feedback. God Bless America!
Rating: 
Summary: Can I put less than 1 star?
Review: If it's possible, I think my IQ dropped 10 points after seeing this poor excuse for a movie. I see that there are positive reviews for it, which is only a painful reminder of the slipping intelligence of our population, or just a cruel cruel joke to swindle you in to wasting your money and time on this disaster.Though the film makes juvenile attempts to provoke laughter, if you are more intelligent than a 2 by 4, you will be in utter disbelief of its stupidity. I have honestly had better times throwing up from food-poisoning.
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Summary: Martin and Latifah are perfect comic foils!
Review: It is impressive how their two brands of comedy (Queen Latifah more subtle and witty to Martin's over-the-top, physical slapstick) work so well together to make this story enjoyable. Charlene (Queen Latifah) and Peter (Steve Martin) have been communicating in a chatroom for lawyers and decide to meet. Peter is recently separated, and is under the impression that Charlene is a skinny, conservatively-dressed blonde. Lo and behold when he opens the door and Queen Latifah is exuberantly shouting "What's UP, baby???" Turns out she recently left jail, and needs a lawyer to clear her name. Charlene is a hit with Peter's 2 kids (Martin's kids get younger with each passing decade -- in 1991 he had a 21-year-old daughter in "Father of the Bride", now they're a teenager and a barely-literate grade-schooler.) She is not a hit with the racist neighbors -- the worst of whom is Peter's boss's sister (Betty White). One wonders why the head of a law firm would let his sister rat out on an associate's personal life like it matters to his career (isn't that, um, ILLEGAL) and why having an African-American woman in his house constitutes "instability" (he was separated BEFORE he met her, and the sister knew that!) But Peter bows to this as he tries to win the account of an uptight rich British dowager (Joan Plowright, the last Lady Olivier - this is a far cry from his other wife, Vivien Leigh's, work in 'Gone With the Wind', but it is entertaining anyway!) Eugene Levy is a scene-stealer as Howard, who falls in love with Charlene. He starts the movie arguing to Peter that the skinny blonde in the photo Charlene sent him is not "universally attractive" as Peter claims, and hilariously lives up to his nickname of "Freak Boy" as Charlene dubs him. Charlene is the most real person in Martin's world, and she tells him what's wrong with how he's living so he can win back his wife. The funniest scene is when she is trying to teach him to "talk nasty" and he just can't get it. It is only rivaled by Martin's dancing at the club ---- he's so out of place that he is instantly popular. It's great!!!
Rating:
Summary: you gotta know the difference between s**t and "shinola"
Review: ha ha ha. when will people learn that black people and white people just speak a different language and that translates into laugh out loud hilarity!!!!!
oh wait they did in the 60's and 70's with movie's like Blazing Saddles.
This movie is not horrible. That would make it entertaining (although it has it's half moments). Stale, not funny, and completely forgettable.
Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Hilarious - laugh out loud - great movie!!!
Review: This is a laugh out loud, absolutely hilarious movie!! There are a few parts that might be questionable for 13yr olds, but the overall content was okay for that age group. Great movie, highly recommend! Must See...5 stars!!
Rating: 
Summary: some entertaining scenes
Review: Queen Latifah as the convict is convinced that the conservative attorney Steve Martin can help her. to that end, she turns his life upside down.despite a rough start the two bond. Overall a nice average comedy. The race card is played a little too much and beginning a little slow. But there are two hilarious scenes that make this comedy worth the price of a movie ticket or rental.
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Summary: Covering old ground in a good way
Review: Bringing Down the House covers little new ground, but I doubt that was what it was hear to do. Instead as a comedy it brings us face to face with uncomfortable parts of our world in a way that gets us to laugh instead of deny their existence, which has to be a step up. Peter Sanderson (Martin) and Charlene Morton (Latifah) are an unlikely pair connected through an internet chatroom, and a combination of attraction and need for legal expertise. When Charlene appears on Peter's doorstep, busting several of his illusions and coercing him into helping her by putting his reputation at risk, the movie gets into the swing of things, setting up pokes at modern segregation and racism. Such pokes are even more appropriate in the wake of things like the comments from Senator Trent Lott, and recognize that there are plenty of people alive and in power who lived in Jim Crow times, and haven't yet made the jump to equality. Plenty of the jabs push the envelope, and if they were meant to simply be funny would be in poor taste. Latifah, Martin, and an excellent supporting cast pull things off extremely well, however. Underlying the main plot, of course, is the story of the disconnected "unreal" older white man who is brought back to a realization of the authentic things in life by a "real" black woman. One redeeming aspect of this sub-plot is the emphasis on Charlene's ability to walk in multiple worlds, and that their is no attempt at creating parity by having them both learn to be "real" through one another, or by positing the only "realness" in one world or the other. Racial issues are still a strong undercurrent in today's world, bursting to the surface with surprising frequency. As long as that's the case we can expect, and hope for, talented performers to expose it in ways that can both entertain and tickle the enlightenment bone.
Rating:
Summary: Hilarious!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie was soooooo funny! It kicks off to a slow start, but in the end your stomach will be hurting because you laughed so much! Make sure you see it!
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