| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Fast and raunchy, Friday After Next surely stands apart from other holiday-themed movies for its gleeful low-down humor and a raft of uninhibited characters involved in one outrageous predicament after another.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
There's nothing sophisticated or inventive about it, but Cube has fun with his characters and first-time director Marcus Raboy drives the film with enough momentum and energy to make the gags flow together almost like a real story. That's enough to carry it through another Friday.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The movie's 85 minutes speed merrily along on a steady stream of outrageous antics, entertaining performances from seasoned pros (like John Witherspoon, as Craig's dyspeptic dad), and unforgettable introductions to new talent.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The trouble with movies like those in the "Friday" series is that their success can lead to a need to inflate their importance, inviting pretentious descriptions like "folkloric" when "Friday" is much closer to chitlin circuit comedy.
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| 60 |
Film Threat
Todd Levin
If you can’t laugh at stuff like this, there are still a few days left in the theatrical run of “Santa Clause 2”. I hear the reindeer are horny as hell.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Edward Crouse
If "Next Friday" approximated smoking the same old shit, FAN is a manically generous Christmas vaudeville.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Kevin Williams
Ultimately, the lazy, cynical underpinnings of Friday After Next are as visible as the film's soundtrack is obnoxious.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I guess there's an audience for it, and Ice Cube has paid dues in better and more positive movies ("Barbershop" among them). But surely laughs can be found in something other than this worked-over material.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The third -- and thinnest and weakest and least funny -- installment in Ice Cube's popular Friday series.
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USA Today
Mike Clark
Anyone who pays to see it will certainly feel as if he has been clipped.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's familiar, undemanding and not as bad as it could have been, but you can't help thinking that somewhere else, there's a real party going on.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Director Marcus Raboy hasn't made a bad movie, exactly -- just one that seems to have forgotten its own jokes, much as those who watch it will forget everything about it a week later, stoned or not.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Neither as good as its direct ancestor (Michael Schultz's great 1976 hood masterpiece Car Wash) nor as clever as the original Friday, this is, to put it bluntly, all seeds and stems.
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| 25 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Dumb and Dumber 'n the hood.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
If you do insist on seeing this film, don't arrive late: the clever, animated opening credits are a stitch, suggesting a sprightliness of touch and winsome wickedness of tone that's missing from the rest of the movie.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Lacks the spirit of the previous two, and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
"Friday" had moments of stoned charm and telling neighborhood detail; this second sequel never gets beyond the angry, cruel, and misogynist.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny (veteran actors John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford seem at best indifferent to the material), Friday After Next is the graceless sodomizing of a cult classic.
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| 20 |
Variety
Robert Koehler
Surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pic ever delivered by a Hollywood studio.
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| 10 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Marginally better than its predecessor, but only because "Next Friday" lowered standards so far that only a homemade cockfighting video would have failed to surpass it.
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