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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 27 Critics What's this?

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Overwhelming dislike- based on 41 Ratings

  • Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Mike Epps, Regina Hall
  • Summary: 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) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 27
  2. Negative: 16 out of 27
  1. 75
    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.
  2. Superfluous though it may be, The Honeymooners is not so bad.
  3. 38
    What's missing is some faith in the audience's intelligence and, more importantly, the jokes.
  4. The movie suffers from a devastating flaw for a comedy: It isn't very funny.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 24
  2. Negative: 21 out of 24
  1. DV8
    5
    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. Expand

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