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75Here's a truly novel sports film: It actually has a script, decent acting, sympathetic characters. And it's fun.
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70But even though, most of the time, you know exactly what will happen next -- you don't much mind. Nor do the many plot holes and improbabilities -- undermine its silly, raucous spirit.
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50Predictable to its very core, and in a funny way the predictability is part of the fun. The movie is in on the joke of its own recycling.
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50This isn't the worst movie Warner Bros. has brought out this summer (Scooby-Doo, boo on you), but for it to work, you have to accept the irredeemable stupidity of almost every character. Time better spent: a Shaquille O'Neal film festival on video.
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50Comic Tommy Davidson, in particular, is hilarious as gangsta rapper Puff Smokey Smoke, who falls for Juwanna and then, in a twist lifted directly from the queen of all drag farces, 1959's "Some Like It Hot," decides he still loves her after she's exposed as Jamal. After all, nobody's perfect.
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50Director Jesse Vaughan keeps the ball in play through the aw-shucks lessons in humility and generosity, but the teamwork is shoddy, the plays lack surprise and, finally, Juwanna Mann misses more than it hits.
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40The idea of transposing the story to the macho, greedy world of big-time sports is promising, but director Jesse Vaughan delivers only flat dialogue and predictable situations.
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38It is Kevin Pollak who steals what there is of a show as Jamal's passive-aggressive, pressure-cooked agent. His comedic timing, particularly given the thinness of the script, is the only genuinely impressive slam dunk this movie has to offer.
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38Excruciatingly flat comedy.
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"Tootsie" meets "Hoop Dreams" in Juwanna Mann, and they don't get along. This basketball comedy turns out to be a total drag -- in both senses.
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25It's tempting to call traveling on Juwanna Mann, except it never goes anywhere. This film fouls out.
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25A postseason basketball comedy that shoots and misses at a rate that would embarrass even the Los Angeles Clippers.
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25It's all so insincere, you can almost imagine the filmmakers rubbing their hands together at the prospect of ripping off the public.
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Women had to struggle for years to launch their own basketball league; it's a shame that the first movie to address their success is a drag comedy, and a lousy one at that.
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25Bottom line: Juwanna Mann is a drag - in every sense of the word.
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25As anyone who has peered in on the actual WNBA for five minutes knows, professional women basketball players are as tough as men. That the film treats this as a joke isn't funny -- it's the height of lame condescension.
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20Relies on the most time-tested basic moves of farce for laughs that just don't come.
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20When the outtakes at the end don't make you laugh, what does that tell you about the movie that preceded them?
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20Bringing absolutely no fresh angles to a time-tested formula that's seemed particularly overworked of late.
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20If this sounds like "Tootsie" with a ball, well, it is. Screenwriter Bradley Allenstein should be hauled up in writer's court for his shameless cribbing of that far superior comedy. Someone call a foul.
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20This limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's "Tootsie," forgetting only to retain a single laugh.
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11This is one that, like a 1am rerun of a late-season Cavs-Grizzlies matchup, deserves to play out in darkness and obscurity.
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10So what in this high-concept lame-a-thon makes screenwriter Bradley Allenstein think he can diss the Clippers?
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This flat run at a hip-hop "Tootsie" is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines.
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0A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply.
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