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- 2023
- R
- Hulu
- 1 h 41 m
- 2023
- R
- Hulu
- 1 h 41 m
Summary Kamal (Sinqua Walls) is a once a promising player who derailed his future in the sport. Jeremy (Jack Harlow) is former star of the game whose injuries stalled his own career. Juggling tenuous relationships, financial pressures and serious internal struggles, the two ballers—opposites who are seemingly miles apart—find they might have mo...
Directed By: Calmatic
Written By: Kenya Barris, Doug Hall, Ron Shelton
- 2023
- R
- Hulu
- 1 h 41 m
- 2023
- R
- Hulu
- 1 h 41 m
White Men Can't Jump
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3.1
Summary Kamal (Sinqua Walls) is a once a promising player who derailed his future in the sport. Jeremy (Jack Harlow) is former star of the game whose injuries stalled his own career. Juggling tenuous relationships, financial pressures and serious internal struggles, the two ballers—opposites who are seemingly miles apart—find they might have mo...
Directed By: Calmatic
Written By: Kenya Barris, Doug Hall, Ron Shelton
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
40
4% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
57% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
39% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
40
4% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
57% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
39% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
White Men Can’t Jump 2023 is the second remake for director Calmatic this year, following the disastrous “House Party” from last January, and while it’s not as clumsy or weirdly tone-deaf as that bomb, the screenplay by Kenya Barris (“black-ish”) and Doug Hall misses a couple of major opportunities, including the decision to have the most dramatic development of the entire movie take place offscreen.
At its best this White Men Can’t Jump conveys the fragility of hoop dreams, while tackling what former players do with their lives once the promise of signing bonuses and sponsorship deals appears to have fizzled. (NBA star Blake Griffin, incidentally, is among the producers, joining several of his contemporaries in establishing a Hollywood toehold while still suiting up.)... On that level, at least, the movie works reasonably well. It’s the hitches in the rest of its game that prevent it, even as a streaming proposition, from being anything close to a slam dunk.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
3.1
20% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
27% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
53% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
3.1
20% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
27% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
53% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
A charmless remake that has the same ideas and characters as the original, but none of the energy. Director Calmatic's idea of a sports film is to put a rap soundtrack on and show us poorly shot and edited basketball scenes that are tedious to follow and care.
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Lacks all of the charm of the original, Harlow isn't terrible at acting but his character is one the more insufferable in a long time.
Also on a side note, it's bad enough we lost Lance **** in real life but now I have had to watch him die in back to back movie roles.
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This new iteration may be interesting from a cultural perspective, if not particularly worthwhile on its own — unless you’re a Jack Harlow fan.
The drama feels undercooked, and the characters barely escape one-dimensionality.
Take away the point-by-point comparison, even accepting the jump shots and backdoor cuts on the court, this remake still never gets off the ground.
The updated, oversized mayhem is emblematic of a culture and a movie in which the outrageous is too often deemed an improvement, and showbiz suits can’t seem to leave cult classics well enough alone. Thinner than Victor Wembanyama and ever eager to please, the new White Men tries way too hard and acts like a teammate more interested in hamming it up than hitting the open man.
The problem just keeps coming back to Harlow. Not only is he just out of his depth in hitting the necessary comedic notes, but the hollowness of his performance also becomes impossible to overlook when his character goes through a rough patch and must find redemption.
(Mauro Lanari)
Thanks to Calmatic, director of video clips and commercials, and the streaming distribution of Disney+, we now have a remake for tiktokers and cinema will never be the same again. "It's cringe at most" (cit.).
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I have a rule of not imposing my opinion on people and I try to avoid telling them not to see any particular movie, but here I'm gonna make it very easy for you.
There is a movie made in 1992 starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson that is devastatingly superior to this dreck in every aspect and I would tell you in any situation that you'd better watch that one over this ''update''.
What a sad pursuit to do remakes of lesser quality because they expect young audiences to watch it just because it stars a mainstream ''rapper''.
If that's what motivates you to watch it, then go ahead, but if you're more interested in quality instead, then I say you'd better turn your attention to the original.
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Space Jam 2 was better. They should’ve put the pig from looney tunes in the movie because he’s a better rapper than Jack.
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I keep wondering how far the quality of programming will plummet, yet I continue to be shocked and appalled.
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Jack freaking Harlow??? Are you actually being serious right now. **** everyone involved with this ****
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Awards
California on Location Awards
• 2 Nominations
Black Reel Awards for Television
• 1 Nomination
