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Summary: A brilliant and timeless classic!
Review: I had to wait several weeks to see this movie in my city--it was considered controversial and threatening to the status quo when it was released!! However, the wait was well worth it: Friday has got to be one of the best-made movies ever. From start to finish, everything clicks. There are fine performances from everyone included--the standouts being Chris Tucker, John Witherspoon and Tiny Lister. Ice Cube should have gotten some sort of an award for writing this genuine gem of a movie. EVERY time I see it, I howl with laughter!! I highly recommend this movie as part of a double-header that might include Pulp Fiction. As for Next Friday, funny, but disappointing.
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Summary: A True Comedy Classic of the 90's
Review: Icecube's writing and acting in this comedy classic shows that his talents go way beyond gangsta rap. This movie is sensational as it carries one progressive storyline, tied in with multiple escapades of sorts. Chasing lil Chris, Deebo, Ms Parker and the Reverend, Big Worm, Smokey on PCP, Stanley's grass, Ezel, and Red's bike, all tie together a long day of nothing but waiting for Craig (Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker). Add in seemingly unnoticable comic inserts (ex. Craig's girlfriend having a guy in bed with her while accusing him of cheating) and repeatable catchphrases (How you gonna get fired on your day off?) and you have the mix of a comic splendor. What really stands out in this movie are the performances of Chris Tucker and John Witherspoon, between the two, you have nonstop giggles in every seen. The thing that truly ties this movie together though is the fabulous soundtrack of funk classics like Bootsy Collins and Curtis Mayfield mixed in with modern rythems from Dr. Dre and Funkdoobiest. All the songs seem to fit perfectly in to the scene that they accompany. Cube truly created a masterpiece of ghetto comedy that will continue to appeal to many generations to come. Timeless.
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Summary: One of the funniest movies ever
Review: I first caught this movie on TV due to a suggestion of a friend. What I saw was one of the funniest works of film that I had ever seen (even to this day). Basically, it follows the adventures of Craig and Smokey on a Friday, and what ensues is hilarious: Craig gets fired on his day off; they get harassed by the neighborhood bully; Smokey tries to outwit a drug dealer; they whoop a young punk who enjoys knocking over trash cans; Smokey gets set up on a blind date; and Craig keeps getting told to put some water on his cereal after he runs out of milk. While this movie takes place in South Central, it's not your average 'hood movie. I strongly recommend this flick.
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Summary: Greatly underrated
Review: Friday is one of the few comedies that can be explicit and memorable and hilarious at the same time (the other is The Big Lebowski). It's also the film that made Chris Tucker famous outside the "Def Comedy" scene.
The film is about a single day in "the hood", and features some hilarious characters, like Deebo, Red and Stanley. It also has a great number of one-liners that just seem to stick in one's mind ("What chain?", "Won't you let me have a little for my cataract?")
As in most of his movies, Ice Cube is just bad. The only good thing about him in this film is that he doesn't talk a whole lot. However, the movie is rescued by Smokey (Tucker), Red (DJ Pooh) and Deebo (Tiny "Zeus" Lister), who all do a great job at playing their respective characters convincingly.
Friday is a great film, and as often happens, undeserving of its bad sequel. Rent it, or buy it if you can.
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Summary: "Dont nobody go in the bathroom for a bout 35-45 minuets"
Review: This is one of my favourite films because I can watch it over and over and not get bourd.
This is a true classic in the comedy section comin straigt from the hood, Chris Tucker in his first film was truely fantastic and Ice Cube has produced something special, next friday was great but it didnt compare to this, jonny Witherspoon was a great touch because he is the king of comedy.
The comedy in this film makes it dead laid back and a classic so am tellin u to get this and next friday
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Summary: My favorite day...and movie
Review: "Friday" is probably, by far,one of the funniest films ever. F. Gary Gary does a 5-star caliber direction in this hilariously brilliant comedy. "Friday" was a definate turn point in African-American comedy, who's brilliance like Richard Pryor's, could only match up to. Ice cube, whom around the time "Friday" came out in theaters, was under pressure from the media and congress, about his "supposive" realtion in rap music to the 1992 LA riots, along with Ice-T and Chuck D of Public Enemy, plays a great job, much along with Chris Tucker and John Witherspoon.It's Friday morning, 8:00 am. Craig Jones (Cube) wakes up to a loud banging noise from his front door. He opens to find two Church ladies selling pamplets. Craig immdiately slams the door shut...thus begins the day Craig will never forget...Friday. Craig was recently fired from his job (which isn't said through out the film, but you can pretty much guess what it is) after being caught on a security camera, steeling boxer shorts. Craig's father (played by the geniuslly funny, John Witherspoon) is a tweedy, Dog catche, who's main ideal in life is getting Craig out of the house or working as a dog catcher. Craig's mother is a loving, yet somethingsself-conceious, workcholic mother, whom bakes an entire breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon and hashbrowns...for herself. Craig's sister is the average teen who's main course is shopping and chilling with her girlfriends. After Mr. and Mrs. Jones leave, and sibling Jones takes off, Craig is left all by himself...or he wish he was. Immediately after getting ready, Craig is bombarted by his pot-smoking and dealing friend, Smokey (Chris Tucker, in the role that made him famous). Smokey runs into trouble,when his Drug-dealing boss,Big-Worm, comes rolling by and finds out that Smokey is not only 500-bucks short on selling weed that he grows in his house, but he's even got into smoking his own product. Worm threatens Smokey that if he doesn't get the money by tonight, he AND Craig will both pay. Craig, being reluctant on the fact his friend got he into a heap of trouble (and it isn't even 12:00 yet!), Craig desides to take drastic measures, involing a neighborhood bully named Deebo (Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.) stealing the money from a snotty next door neighboor. The plan falls through and Smokey and Craig have to find another way to get the money. Anyways, the two get through the day by witnessing their neighboors live hilariously pathectic everyday lives. At one point, the two gawk at a Hot neighboor named Mrs. Parker and her unknowing midget husband, constain joggers and an annoying kleptomaniactic fool named Ezal. Also along the way are Mexican gangster, a punk paperboy and several cases of intoxication from...you know what. Friday never cease to stop making you laugh. It's so well casted and written. Every joke is laughable, no matter how lame is sounds. The soundtrack is filled with nice Rap tunes, like Dr. Dre and...well, Ice Cube. The original Kings of Comedy star Berne Mac makes a short cameo apperance as a sleazy reverend, who takes an "vow" on Mrs. Parker across the street. Must buy.
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Summary: Friday The Best Day Of The Week.
Review: Friday is the best comedy movie ever made with Ice Cube. You just have to see it to believe. If your from the street's of L.A. this movie will take you back, If you lost your job because you stole some boxes, But it really wasn't you. This will take you back.
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Summary: Baby! We were just praying!
Review: Man! I L.O.V.E this movie ,Ice Cube and Chris Tucker really acted in this movie. SO if you like REAL BLACK movies! Thin go out and buy this one Now!
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Summary: Endo? Tastes more like OUTDO!
Review: I don't think there is a movie I have ever watched more than Friday. It is so cleverly and well written, anyone who watches it once just keeps coming back for more. The story, which was co-written by Ice Cube himself and DJ Pooh, is about Craig, (played by, of course, Ice Cube) a 22 year old still living with his parents who just got fired on his day off. The movie starts off on Friday morning and focuses on the entire day, in fact, the movie actually ends at the stroke of midnight of that very day. Chris Tucker plays his friend Smokey, who gets into some trouble with Big Worm, the hood's meanest and most sensitive drug dealer ("Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions"). They spend the bulk of the day on Craig's porch, blazing up and dealing with annoying neighbors, acquintances and junkies. Bernie Mac has a small role as a Priest and Tiny Lister plays Deebo, the bully. John Witherspoon is in a hilarious role as Craig's father, and, in my opinion, is the funniest person in this movie ("I smelled your ... for 22 years, you can smell mine for 5 minutes"). The movie takes a rather serious tone, however, towards the last half hour, involving drive by shootings, guns and assault. But, of course, everything wraps up nice and neatly within an hour and a half time frame. Friday is probably one of the funniest movies made, if you haven't seen it, I have no idea what is wrong with you.
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Summary: Chris Tucker all the Way!
Review: This is a great movie, a cult classic and has people laughing over and over each time they watch it. Ice Cube heads a cast of memorable characters, most notably Chris Tucker's Smokey, who steals every scene that he's in. This is Tucker completely loose and brilliant.
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