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Summary: Love Queen L, but...
Review: I didn't really care too much for this movie. It had it's funny moments, but I just didn't like some of the scenes. Especially, when that woman was singing an old negro spiritual. That was un called for in my opinion. I think that could have been left out. Steve Martin's lawyer friend was funny trying to talk "black", but then it got to be annoying too. I think Queen L should stick to more rolls like Chicago and Barbershop 2. Don't do any more movies like this. Not good.
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Summary: Funny Funny Funny
Review: Come on film snobs, this film was hilarious...Queen Latifah fighting the skinny girl to the song "Simply irresistable"..then the old lady singing "is massa gonna sell us at the market?" while Queen looked like she was gonna go berserk on the old lady...then the old woman getting stoned and dancing on the bar at the end...funny funny funny stuff, I loved it..
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Summary: We Shall Overcome Someday.
Review: Got a problem with a skinny, unpleasant white woman? Handle it the Queen Latifah way- beat her up! It works especially well if the white woman is half your size and wearing only her underwear. So much for Martin Luther King.It's touching that the creators of this movie have managed to offensively stereotype black people and white people equally. It doesn't seem fair to accuse such totally clueless people of racism- it's kind of like yelling at an infant because it pooped in its diaper. The one redeeming thing about this mess is Eugene Levy, and you can see him in some movies that are actually good: Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show or the SCTV DVDs supposedly coming out in spring 2004.
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Summary: Rife with sterotypes
Review: If we are grading on plot, this movie is a 2 or 3 - formulaic but an okay comedy. If we are grading on the social worth of this movie (compared to other Martin movies like L.A. Story, a 5 star story or Roxanne, a four only because it is a knock off of Cyrano) this movie doesn't even make one star. THE PLOT - Steve Martin is a tax attorney in a conservative tax office and is trying to reel in the multi million dollar account of an exceedingly conservative and somewhat eccentric old heiress. When he sets up a blind date with an internet acquaintance, Lawyer girl, it turns out to be Charlene - an escaped convict trying to clear her name of the armed robbery charge for which she was falsely imprisoned. While that would be a suitable description for her in most movies, it is also a big deal in this movie that she is black. Not able to get rid of her, she moves in - ostensibly as the nannny - until he can get her name cleared. Typical hijinx ensue. The only thing that was really entertaining was Eugene Levy who pursues Charlene throughout the movie but then we start getting into the problem with some of the ridiculous things he says. THE PROBLEM - From the start, almost all plot points are based on race. All the whites are openly bigotted. Betty White as Martin's neighbor says she doesn't want to see hispanics in the neighborhood unless they have a leafblower. Terms "Aunt Jemima" and "jungle love" are just the beginning. All of the blacks in the movie speak presumably some type of hip hop language that bears no resemblance to anything. All the blacks are "gangstas". In short I have never met anyone of either color that acted, talked or even thought like the people in the film. I am pretty sure everyone will be offended, regardless of their skin color.
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Summary: Oh this was just to much..
Review: I always liked Steve martin, and Queen latifah now that's the girl. I was reading how the movie isn't so great. But I expected less and got more. You have steve martin and a uptight lawyer who has been having a great time e-mailing a women he thinks is a white female. lol. oh god when he meets her, he's sooo dissapointed. What she really wants is for him to help her clear her record (she got out of prison). Now her world starts to slowly merge into his and it becomes funny. The best is Eugene Levy, that man should have had more screen time, he was the best, 5 stars. everytime he saw latifah he always said something to her, mostly because he wanted to get with her. This movie I liked. I am use to the racial world of black and white so the slurs didn't bother me, cause I know how true some of it is.
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Summary: offensive and sterotypical.
Review: Funny at times and sterotypically offensive at others. Things I learned from this movie. 1) Most white people are racist.
2) No black people are racist.
3) All Southerners are racist and homophobes.
4) If you get a white southern racist stone, they suddenly cease to be racist and thus can see the error of their ways.
5) All black people apparently know someone who has drugs. Who can then give the white southern person some weed to make them not racist anymore. This movie was very much about offensive sterotypes. I normally don't care about that kind of thing, I mean Hollywood is going to make what they want to make and they don't care about how it potrays blacks or whites but this was just over the top. Think I am kidding? Rent the movie. Count how many times a sterotypical action is given from a white person to a black person. Anything from " Yoo Gee..." Or the famous " Look Aunt Jammia". Very...very....typical hollywood crap. Outside of Steve Martin and his lawyer partner all the white people are portayed as being racist or having racist views. Contrast that with all the black people who seem to be the only open minded persons. The lady from Athens Georgia in the movie is just over the top hollywood painting everyone from the south as still running around with hood and cloaks. From her singing a "negro spiritual" about how her servants would come off the field and wonder about if they were being sold today, to her the next door neighbor complaing about Mexicans and her line of the movie " I thought I heard Negro!". Steve Martin's performance is the only thing that saved this film. That and Queen Latifas Fight scene in the bathroom with the money grupping sister in law.
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Summary: Another Degrading Movie!
Review: Shame on Queen Latifah for doing this movie! It's just another degrading movie for African Americans. This movie didn't make me laugh at all! I'm sorry I rented it!
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Summary: Queen and Stevebusted out on that movie
Review: Well, in this natural film Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is an attorney and a divorced father that has two kids Georgey (Agustus T Jones) and Sara (Kimberly Brown. Well as you know he was divorced so he went on the internet and was in the chat room and met Charlene (Queen Latifah) a wild and black soul sista. And he found out that she just broke out of prison. But she did time but didn't do the crime. And so Peter dosen'twant anything to do with her. And Mrs Arness and her dog William Shakesphere aretrying to see what's going on in peter's personal life. And what happened in between the movie We found out that Howie (Eugene Levy) likes Charlene. And Charlene's ex-boyfriend Widow is a black murder man who wants peter to not reopen the case
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Summary: Queen Latifah Rules The World!
Review: Okay this is not the best movie in the world and it doesn't portray blacks ( myself included ) in a very positive light but there is no serious harm done if you realize it's all in fun. Some people trashed this film because of Queen Latifah's role as an ignorant ex-con who fit the stereotypes of what people THINK black people are about. But we all know thinking that way in itself is ignorant. My point is that this was a movie for fun and laughs. Queen Latifah was unfairly bashed for her role because she was a female. It's funny to me how no one says one word when Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence take roles that are so ignorant they set blacks back to slavery. Queen Latifah's role wasn't ten times as embarrassing to blacks as the roles Martin and Murphy have potrayed. Yet, she gets the heat because she's a woman. Queen Latifah was playing a part just like Steve Martin was playing a part. All white people are not stuffy and all black people are not ghetto and ignorant. I am sick of people bringing politics and social beliefs into everything they see and hear. Some things are just for fun and Bringing Down The House is a nice little movie ( if you're void of real expectations )that explores the fun side of hooking up a stuffy white lawyer with a hip home girl ex-con. Queen Latifah was wonderful. Being the intelligent business woman she is in real life it was funny to see her comedic side. It reminded me of her days on Living Single. It is no argument that Queen Latifah ruled the show and the world. She and Eugene Levy keep you begging for more with hip wise cracks and hilarious banter. The film is very cliched but new elements such as Latifah herself bring a new spin on the film. At one point it seemed that the director was tampering with a romance between Charlene and Peter but probably felt it wouldn't make sense so cut it out. Steve Martin was once again his reliably funny self and fed off of Queen Latifah's character with ease. This is a good film with a great soundtrack and a fabulous look at how one side of the tracks meets up with the other. The supporting characters are funny and everyone stays true to their characters which makes this a loveable film. If you haven't seen it, give it a chance. But not if your political and social views blind your sense of humor. If you begin watching this movie and laspe into a belief that Queen Latifah has done black people wrong, this movie is definitely not for you.
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Summary: Fine but way too simple Comedy
Review: Bring down The House is a funny movie but rings the joke over and over again, and it becomes offensive after a while. Yes, Steve Martin is Funny as always, and Queen Latifa does hold her own with him but most of the jokes do come far and between, and they are repeated more than needed. Maybe if they had a real plot to go by, it would have been funnier but unfortunately its not.
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