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Honeymooners, The
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
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Based on 33 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Barry W. Blaustein,
Danny Jacobson,
Saladin K. Patterson,
Don Rhymer and David Sheffield
Directed by: John Schultz
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 10, 2005
DVD: November 22, 2005
Running Time: 85 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It honors the tone of that wonderful comedy while setting it in present-day New York City.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie's story actually does work as a story and not simply as a wheezy Hollywood formula. Sometimes you walk into a movie with quiet dread and walk out with quiet delight.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Superfluous though it may be, The Honeymooners is not so bad.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
This harmless but mediocre enterprise was doomed to failure from the start. Hollywood magic can do a lot, but it can't raise the dead.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Staff (Not credited)
Plays a bit better than it sounds. I miss the show's mangy, minimalist sets, but the slapdash narrative construction and good-hearted schmaltz survive intact.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
The Honeymooners isn't the worst of the endless spate of TV rehashes, but it still feels perfunctory.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Just funny enough to mollify purists and amuse the uninitiated.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
Epps has a nicely beaten charm to him -- among the leads, he alone looks like he knows what a trip to the moon costs.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
John Leguizamo steals the show as its sleazy trainer -- not that there's much to steal from John Schultz's joylessly schematic paycheck.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
No less amusing than an average sitcom, but that's certainly not reason enough to buy a ticket.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
At least The Honeymooners is not one of those remakes that looks bad compared to the original. It's just bad, period.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Cedric is certainly the bright spot in this movie - personable, silly and lovable, with just enough of Gleason's girth, timing and humanity to make you wish he'd driven Ralph Kramden's bus onto the lot of a different movie.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
The movie suffers from a devastating flaw for a comedy: It isn't very funny.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Peter Debruge
What's missing is some faith in the audience's intelligence and, more importantly, the jokes.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A lackluster affair, devoid of laughs and just about anything else one might construe as entertainment.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
This appalling multiculti upgrade of the β50s sitcom is about as funny as a bus accident.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
When a performer as sharp as Cedric the Entertainer is reduced to funny fat-guy shtick, you know you're in the presence of grinding mediocrity.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mark Holcomb
John Schultz's wan, unfunny The Honeymooners is unlikely to tickle devotees of Jackie Gleason's archetypal yuk-fest.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Teresa Wiltz
Though Cedric, for all his nimble portliness, is no Gleason, there's plenty of talent to be found here. Too bad it's left to fend for itself against a raging mechanical bull of a script.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
The filmmakers have also advertised that their new movie eliminates the "Pow! Right in the kisser!" threats of spousal abuse that permeated the original series. The question of audience abuse has yet to be addressed.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
A pitiful update that saddles poor Cedric the Entertainer with the unenviable task of taking over Jackie Gleason's premier creation, Ralph Kramden.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A bland, dull and only occasionally funny waste of time that will very soon be gathering dust in the remainder bins.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
This one is so bad that even Ed Norton couldn't get this mess to move through the sewer.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
Itβs a shame when a movie brings together so many underutilized thespians of color β even Ajay Naidu of "Office Space" is in here someplace β and gives them absolutely nothing to do.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's not as bad as the average Hollywood movie, it's stupendously worse.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Suffice it to say, there is no comedy, no chemistry, no nothing in this movie.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
