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Friday After Next

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Friday After Next reviews
35
9.4 User Score:

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Based on 24 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Ice Cube (also characters)
D.J. Pooh (characters)

Directed by: Marcus Raboy

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 22, 2002
DVD: March 25, 2003

Running Time: 97 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for language, sexual content and drug use

Starring Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Don 'D.C.' Curry, Anna Maria Horsford, K.D. Aubert, LileƩ Anderson, and Terry Crews

In this third installment in the hit "Friday" film series, Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Epps) are back in the old neighborhood and ready for Christmas. (New Line Productions)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Fast and raunchy, Friday After Next surely stands apart from other holiday-themed movies for its gleeful low-down humor and a raft of uninhibited characters involved in one outrageous predicament after another.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life.

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67

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

There's nothing sophisticated or inventive about it, but Cube has fun with his characters and first-time director Marcus Raboy drives the film with enough momentum and energy to make the gags flow together almost like a real story. That's enough to carry it through another Friday.

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The movie's 85 minutes speed merrily along on a steady stream of outrageous antics, entertaining performances from seasoned pros (like John Witherspoon, as Craig's dyspeptic dad), and unforgettable introductions to new talent.

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60

The New York Times A.O. Scott

The trouble with movies like those in the "Friday" series is that their success can lead to a need to inflate their importance, inviting pretentious descriptions like "folkloric" when "Friday" is much closer to chitlin circuit comedy.

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60

Film Threat Todd Levin

If you can’t laugh at stuff like this, there are still a few days left in the theatrical run of “Santa Clause 2”. I hear the reindeer are horny as hell.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there.

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50

Village Voice Edward Crouse

If "Next Friday" approximated smoking the same old shit, FAN is a manically generous Christmas vaudeville.

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50

Chicago Tribune Kevin Williams

Ultimately, the lazy, cynical underpinnings of Friday After Next are as visible as the film's soundtrack is obnoxious.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

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50

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The third -- and thinnest and weakest and least funny -- installment in Ice Cube's popular Friday series.

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50

USA Today Mike Clark

Anyone who pays to see it will certainly feel as if he has been clipped.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel

The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious.

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40

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's familiar, undemanding and not as bad as it could have been, but you can't help thinking that somewhere else, there's a real party going on.

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38

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction.

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30

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Director Marcus Raboy hasn't made a bad movie, exactly -- just one that seems to have forgotten its own jokes, much as those who watch it will forget everything about it a week later, stoned or not.

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30

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Neither as good as its direct ancestor (Michael Schultz's great 1976 hood masterpiece Car Wash) nor as clever as the original Friday, this is, to put it bluntly, all seeds and stems.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Dumb and Dumber 'n the hood.

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25

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

If you do insist on seeing this film, don't arrive late: the clever, animated opening credits are a stitch, suggesting a sprightliness of touch and winsome wickedness of tone that's missing from the rest of the movie.

20

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Lacks the spirit of the previous two, and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck.

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20

Chicago Reader Hank Sartin

"Friday" had moments of stoned charm and telling neighborhood detail; this second sequel never gets beyond the angry, cruel, and misogynist.

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20

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny (veteran actors John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford seem at best indifferent to the material), Friday After Next is the graceless sodomizing of a cult classic.

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20

Variety Robert Koehler

Surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pic ever delivered by a Hollywood studio.

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10

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Marginally better than its predecessor, but only because "Next Friday" lowered standards so far that only a homemade cockfighting video would have failed to surpass it.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 35 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Drea D. gave it a10:
Reguardless of what any movie critic says, it is the people who love this style of movies that make "Friday After Next" funny. The critics only watch the movie once or twice but it's the everyday people that watch it all the time, which makes it a successful movie.

Joshua V. gave it a10:
This movie is funny!

shain b. gave it a 10:
Amazing and hilarios!

Fraze L gave it a 10:
Real funny,clifton powell is great as Pinky.a must see quality picture,written by none other than cube himself.

Krista H gave it a 10:
God put this movie on earth...take advantage!

Chantelle F. gave it a 10:
I thought the movie was awesome!!! it like totally rocked and the other 2 were just as good as this one and keep mike and ice cube in the movie forever they rock!!!

Sam M. gave it a 10:
'Next Friday' was probably the best but you just can't resist the Lil Pimp, Day-Day and Mr. Jones. Very Funny!

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