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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some innuendo and rude humor
Starring Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, Eric Stoltz, John Leguizamo, Jon Polito, and Anne Pitoniak
Based on the groundbreaking TV series, The Honeymooners is the story of two best friends, bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) and sewer worker Ed Norton (Epps) who hatch a get-rich-quick scheme to get them out of Brooklyn and onto easy street. Standing by their husbands are devoted wives Alice (Union) and Trixie (Hall), who help their guys make ends meet by waitressing at a neighborhood diner. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): | Comedy |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Barry W. Blaustein,
Danny Jacobson, Saladin K. Patterson, Don Rhymer and David Sheffield |
| DIRECTED BY: | John Schultz |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 22, 2005 Video: November 22, 2005 Theatrical: June 10, 2005 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 85 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 0.8 (out of 10) based on 33 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
DV8 gave it a5:
These reviewers are expecting Jackie Gleason and 1950's storylines. This movie does little more than take pre-existing characters and sets them in the modern time. The problem is that the jokes from the 1950's series don't work today, and especially not without the timing of Gleason and Carney, and the incomparable Audrey Meadows. The movie was a bad idea. If we get past the story, John Legiuzamo has some great moments as does Mike Epps. As for the women, I was unimpressed. This movie isn't great, and it's barely entertaining, but it's better than people are saying.
Potato Salad gave it a0:
Chad, you've seen one movie too many. Time to give up your Advance Scout badge. You stink if you thought this had any credibility whatsoever? Awful in ever sensd of the word.
Coleslaw gave it a1:
Chad are you drunk? The honeymooners sucks, compare it to whatever you want. The point is, this is a terrible movie.
Chad S. gave it a5:
You're right. "The Honeymooners" is not a good film, per se, but my argument is that it's relatively good, when compared to films like "Soul Plane" and "King's Ransom". I'm judging "The Honeymooners" against other contemporary films with a largely African-American cast, not "Citizen Kane". "Eve's Bayou" by Kasi Lemmons is a "10". "King's Ransom" is a "0". This update of "The Honeymooners" feels like a "5".
Harry gave it a0:
Larry I'm with you. How in the world did Chad give this a 5? Possibly the worst movie of the year. But it is close with War of Idiots running a very close second. I wonder if Chad will give that idiot movie a 10? Chad better stick to your day job because you have no validity on this board any longer. A 5? Are you freakin crazy man?
Larry W. gave it a0:
Chad, Chad, Chad? I see you on almost every movie site at Metacritic. For you to give this trailer trash a 5 means that I can no longer read or respect your views. You are hereby sumarily dismissed from going to the movies as you are in definite need of a frontal lobotormy. Call your doctor and schedule the procedure if you really think this garbage deserved better than a zero. Have you ever seen the real Honeymooners? How is the world can you even remotely compare this to the original. You need to see the doctor immediately. You have lost your mind.
Chad S. gave it a5:
Unlike those hypocritical women from "Jungle Fever", Alice marries one of those "good men", a bus driver, that Spike Lee's manhunters wouldn't have given "the time of day to". When Alice's mother comes over for dinner, "The Honeymooners" avoids the real subject, how Alice married beneath her station for love, by veering off into a very unfunny scene involving cayenne pepper. Rather than show how Ralph (a very good Cedric the Entertainer) doesn't like his mother-in-law, "The Honeymooners" could've benefited from some semblance of emotional truth. Alice's mother sees where her daughter lives and must peg Ralph as a total loser. If they didn't sugarcoat this relationship, redemption time for Ralph might've meant something. "The Honeymooners" gets by on the chemistry between Cedric the Entertainer and Michael Epps. They're not from the hip-hop generation. When an elderly white woman on the bus uses the word "ho" on Ralph's bus, it reveals how the filmmakers missed an opportunity to examine a rift in the black community concerning the language of rappers. This is a very clean movie, almost Andy Hardy-like. What if the dog trainer was a scatalogical African-American? That would've made "The Honeymooners" a different movie, and probably, a better one.
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