Next Friday (2000)

this second film in the Friday trilogy is a pretty good film.i enjoyed it quite a bit.it's pretty funny at times,though maybe not quite as funny as the first one was.i think they stretched a couple of the jokes too thin.there is one running joke that they milked a bit too much.still the story is interesting.the cast of characters is not quite as large,with only a handful of characters from the first film returning.Ice Cube is back as Craig,and John Witherspoon returns as his Dad,Mr.Jones.there are some new characters,but these are not nearly as quirky or interesting as the characters in the first movie.to me,they seemed a bit stereotypical.overall,though,the movie is funny and entertaining.for me,Next Friday is a 7/10

I guess this appealed to me because I have a "ghetto" side that rarely gets out. Ice Cube turns in a so-so performance, but Mike Epps shines like them "20s" he says he keeps clean. The storyline doesn't skip that much of a beat, and the new characters are especially funny (a record store owner comes to mind). The gag jokes are just about non-stop, as the movie plays on just about every stereotype concerning the suburbs "Friday" was a great movie, but don't sleep on this just one because it's a sequel. The few things that kept this movie at a 9:a. No Chris Tucker (Mike Epps fills the gap well, but even a quick cameo would've been nice). b. Craig's sister, played by the beautiful Regina King, goes off to college, never to be seen again (mentioned briefly). c. Carla didn't lose the top!!! I was waiting for that so much when I first saw this! d. The three females toward the end didn't do the same!!! DAMN!!!Still, a great movie to laugh your ass off to. SAY IT AGAIN!!!

They say sequels are never as good as the originals. This movie was no exception. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Friday, but Next Friday definitely lacked in humor, acting and storyline especially.This would have to encapsulate one of the most simple plots I have ever seen. The prequel to this film had a better story in it, and being a fan of hood movies, better locations.Ice Cube once again proving he is a talented person, not some lifeless rapper - turned - actor. His part was as good as his last, but some new characters in this movie did not prove to me the film was better.I would like to give this a better rating than 6/10, but for me it was not a big hitter.So, the sequel theory is right again. 6/10.

When he hears that Deebo plans to break out of prison, Craig gets taken to a much better neighbourhood to avoid trouble by hiding out with his lottery-winning uncle Elroy and his drugged out cousin Day-Day. Unknown to Craig though, Deebo has a plan for finding out where he is hiding but in the meantime he has his own problems: Day-Day has a Fatal Attraction thing going on with a neighbour, Uncle Elroy is a freak, another neighbour appears to be in a gang and it is only a matter of time before Craig is back in trouble on another Friday.Opening with the credits delivered in weed smoke while the smokers chuckle and comment about them, I knew from the start that this was hardly going to the film to watch if I was looking for anything beyond ebonics and clowning. However even when I had accepted that my brain would be working at this level, I was still disappointed find that this film wasn't even "good" by the very low standards of that genre. The plot is essentially just one "comic" scenario after another with the Deebo thing only serving to provide a conclusion. As such it is no surprise to find that the narrative is badly structured, lacking anything to engage and generally just an excuse to wheel out clichés and drug/toilet/sexual jokes. The problem is that the film isn't very funny at all and it just sort of moves along without much effort or spark, I kept waiting to laugh but it never came. Instead all I got were very obvious jokes that made the least amount of effort possible and all the character development of a hip-hop music video (complete with sexy girls for sexy girls' sake).Accordingly the performances are all as bland, lazy and uninspired as the writing. Cube makes for an expressionless chunk of wood that it is difficult to care about or even like; he is also to blame for the script as the main writer here. I hate to get all "McGruder" for a second but it is hard to see why audiences turn out for stuff like this (or why someone who is a black icon would make it) because all it does is reinforce black stereotypes and is just as racist as it sounds. Epps is the Chris Tucker replacement and, rather than do anything new, he just shrieks and mugs his way along from start to finish. Witherspoon does his usual stuff and is amusing I suppose while Pierce turns in the token white dude role. Lister has little to do other than be a big angry man. The female cast are mainly the slim, sexy and available type (how imaginative) with appropriate turns from Rodriguez, Jones and a few others, with Whitley providing the usual "big black woman" role without anything original to recommend.Overall a clunky, unfunny and obvious film that will probably just about satisfy the most undemanding of genre fans. Other than them though most viewers will just find themselves becoming more and more bored by the parade of ethnic clichés that pass as characters and lazy jokes that pass for humour. Even ignoring the whole "demeaning of the race" aspect of the film, this is still a pretty poor show on all fronts.