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Scarface98.9
11-10-2002, 12:20 AM
The 3rd installment of the "Friday Trilogy" will be coming out November 22nd (if a T&R thread for Die Another Day can be up tonight, so can this) and stars Ice Cube, Mike Epps, and John Witherspoon.
Friday may not have been anymore intelligent than say Half Baked or it's sequel, but it was a damn funny movie and can always watch it. The sequel didn't fair so well, but the new trailer IMO is very promising. Although it will still miss some of the original's spirit considering Tucker became a money-whore once Rush Hour premiered.
I saw some of the first one and all of the second one and I must say I'm not a very big fan. I guess it's "ok" but I've never really found "drug" humor that funny, even Half Baked (5/10) was just "alright." I might see it someday on video but it's just not my thing and there's no way in hell I'd see it in theaters, even though from the trailer it doesn't look "that" bad.
Gollum
11-10-2002, 02:28 AM
There really hasn't been a lot of media for it(tv spots, etc.)
Scarface98.9
11-10-2002, 02:38 AM
Originally posted by Gollum
There really hasn't been a lot of media for it(tv spots, etc.)
It opens November 22nd, and considering New Line is backing it, the ads will be shown in full force within the next few days
Kastman
11-10-2002, 07:28 AM
Without Chris Tucker this won't be as funny.
The first one was very funny, the second was funny in some parts. But Ice Cube's character (whats his name again?) isn't much of a comedic one. And whoever that other guy is, well he is ok but he doesn't even compare to tucker.
idealdiscountdude
11-10-2002, 08:14 AM
I loved Friday and Next,Friday so I am real pumped to see Friday After Next.
Another driving force in me wantint to see it is the very raunchy trailer I saw yesterday during BET's 106 and Park.......The trailer started out fine with a few laughs and then the voice over was talking about Christmas and then says Ho! Ho! Ho! and for each Ho! A different scantily clad girl is shown.
I mean yes it was derogatory but yet sooooooo funny. I really wanna see this.
sleekproductions
11-10-2002, 09:47 AM
Both Friday and Next Friday Are Very Funny Movies. And Although Mike Epps Isn't Quite As Good As Chris Tucker Was In The First One, I'll Still Check Friday After Next Out.
FeverDog420
11-10-2002, 11:25 AM
Y'know, I've tried to like Friday. I've watched it while both sober and...impaired, and while I can see glimpses of why it's so well-liked, most of the humor is not my taste. (Next Friday is even worse.)
Originally posted by Gollum
There really hasn't been a lot of media for it.
Bus and subway stops here in NYC are plastered with ads, so I guess it's being marketed just in urban areas right now.
Originally posted by idealdiscountdude
The trailer started out fine with a few laughs and then the voice over was talking about Christmas and then says Ho! Ho! Ho! and for each Ho! A different scantily clad girl is shown.
I mean yes it was derogatory but yet sooooooo funny. I really wanna see this.
That actually does sound funny...
idealdiscountdude
11-10-2002, 02:24 PM
Originally posted by Mike
That actually does sound funny...
It was!
It was the first time I have ever laughed hysterically at a TV preview!
Scarface98.9
11-15-2002, 05:57 PM
Here's a new review from darkhorizons.com
Review
"Friday After Next" - A Review by 'BDC'
Tonight at my school, they did 2 screenings of Friday After Next. I wound up going to the midnight screening. My biggest complaint, I guess, would be that the film is extremely short. I think it clocked in at around 1 hour, 10 minutes. (w/o credits).
The plot deals with Day-Day and Craig, who now live in their own apartment. Some of the new characters that we meet here are their weed-smoking angry old landlord lady and her prison-produced-gay son. In the beginning of the film, a drunk Santa Clause takes everything of theirs, including their rent money. The rest of the film concerns trying to get it, and of course their are a whole new slew of characters that they meet at their new job (Pimp and Hoe's 100% personality-less Donna) and the guy at the Holy Moly Donut shop, who's just a foreigner with a dirty restaurant.
Overall, the film was pretty funny and the audience laughed a lot. The jokes were great, modern, and very trashy in nature. (The feel of this one, actually, is a lot more trashy than the others. I'd say wait for video though, because everything seems rushed and it leaves you wanting a lot more
idealdiscountdude
11-16-2002, 08:27 AM
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0293815/friday_poster.jpg
The Claw
11-22-2002, 03:32 PM
It looks bad. The original Friday i didnt get sure parts were funny but you can just throw it into the pile of movies i just didnt get why they were so good. Maybe it's not really my humor. maybe it's that i dont like mr. chris tucker that much. I dont know. I just know that the sequels dont intrest me and look quite bad.
dh1989
11-23-2002, 08:51 AM
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Rating: 6/10
I saw this film yesterday and it was funny, but I was let down a bit. The film did not flow. It felt like a bunch of small gags thrown together, but I do not deny some were very funny. It was like SNL, really. The two cops in the donut shop...The Santa burglar....Butt biting canine and more. It goes from gag to gag like that with a very loose plot holding it together. Ice Cube still seems like a straight man, but gives a few laughs. Mike Epps is annoying, big suprise there. Maz Jobrani is really funny as the owner of a dirty donut store. And The Santa Burglar(played by Rickey Smiley) is hilarious. Overall, this film is sort of funny and I reccomend you either wait for DVD or see a matinee.
Scarface98.9
11-23-2002, 12:45 PM
Here's Ebert's 2 star review. I wish he had reviewed the original since he seemed to have liked it.
Craig and Day-Day are back in the ghetto as "Friday After Next" opens, after a relative's lottery win allowed them to spend the previous film, "Next Friday," in the lap of luxury. They're behind on the rent, unemployed, and as the picture opens their Christmas presents are being stolen by Santa Claus. That's the ghetto for you--a point the movie makes again and again, with humor that will cause some to laugh and others to cringe. There's already a controversy about the movie's TV spots, which "coincidentally" superimpose Santa's "Ho, ho, ho" over shots of black women.
As it happens, I saw the movie at about the same time as Adam Sandler's "8 Crazy Nights," another holiday picture with an ethnic angle. That probably helped me get in a better spirit. Sandler's film is so mean-spirited that "Friday After Next," for all of its vulgarity (and scatology, and obscenity), seems almost benevolent by contrast. At least its characters just wanna have fun and don't seem mad at the world.
The plot involves cousins Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) as roommates who have made one promise too many to their landlady (BeBe Drake), especially now that her man-mountain son Damon (Terry Crews) is out on parole. Desperate to raise cash, they get a job as security guards in the neighborhood mall where their fathers, Mr. Jones (John Witherspoon) and Uncle Elroy (Don "D.C." Curry) run Bros. Bar-B-Q. Other stores include "Pimp and Ho Fashions" and "Toys N the Hood," which is a nod to Ice Cube's debut picture "Boyz N the Hood" but leaves an opening for "We Be Toys."
The action mostly centers around attempts to raise the rent money and apprehend the thieving Santa, and there's a rent party which fills the screen with a lot of music and dancing and an improbable number of great-looking women. The landlady complains about the noise until she is rewarded with favors both mind-altering and sexual from upstairs, leading to the usual broad humor when Mrs. Jones (Anna Maria Horsford) finds her husband cheating.
A team of cops, one white, one black, both with ribald names, drift in and out. At one point they find a thriving marijuana bush in the cousins' apartment, and Craig desperately explains that it's for "municipal use." It turns out, once the cops confiscate the plant, that he's right.
Some of the better laughs come from Money Mike (Katt Micah Williams), who is short but, because of his wardrobe, not easy to miss. He plays the neighborhood pimp. Which leads me to wonder: Why, really, does this movie need a pimp? And "hos" that are not part of Santa's dialogue?And as much pot smoking as in a Cheech and Chong movie?
I guess there's an audience for it, and Ice Cube has paid dues in better and more positive movies ("Barbershop" among them). But surely laughs can be found in something other than this worked-over material. The original "Friday" movie, back in 1995, benefited not only from the presence of Chris Tucker but from a sweeter approach more based on human nature. The third picture has reduced the "Friday" series to loud, broad vulgarity, including Mr. Jones' obligatory battle with world-class flatulence. There's an audience for it, but it could have been funnier and more innocent. It's rated R, but when it hits the video stores you somehow know it will be viewed at home as a family movie, and that's kind of sad.
Big Pudge
11-28-2002, 01:49 AM
FRIDAY was great... it put ghetto life into a new light, a comical yet serious one.
NEXT FRIDAY was even better... alot of ppl said it wouldnt be good w/o Tucker... well that ego maniac left the franchise and the sequal turned out to be better than the original.
FRIDAY AFTER NEXT was NOT VERY GOOD!! i was going in expecting something funny as hell.. i came out w/ sumptin that made me chuckle a few times but nothing like the original 2.
I was a lil tired tonight, maybe that played into it. I know i am gonna buy the DVD whenit comes out, i must complete the trilogy, and i bet it will play ALOT better on home video.
PLUS... that long ass animated opening was crappy, i aint like it at all!
Friday After Next
Score: 5/10
Synopsis:
I will not deny that there are a few very funny scenes and characters in this movie. Everytime I saw the little pimp dressed store owner with the Michael Jackson like voice, I laughed my ass off. Mr. Jones can always give me a chuckle just by the site of him as well. Ice Cube and Mike Epps share good screen chemistry as two friends who spend way too much time together.
Now I can tell you what bothered me: I hate the complete mean spiritedness of this film. I have just seen Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights and loved it. A film for which is getting panned by crtics for the exact same thing, but I honestly thought it was appropriate for that movie (it even puts together sweetness at its end). But every single character in Friday After Next is pissed off. Everybody yells and hits eachother so much, that it gets a tad depressing ( not too mention that it just aint funny) and it shows that nobody involved with this film made a christmas movie while believing in any christmas spirit whatsoever.
The first movie Friday is so good, and actually has a realistic feel to it and has things to say. But the last two films (especially this one inparticular) are just pointless and offensive screw ball comedies making money off the first movie.
I'm not going to say that this is a horrible film. Like I said, it has funny parts and good chemistry with the actors, but it lacks one thing crucial, a heart.
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