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Next Friday
New Line Cinema

Next Friday reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 41 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.1 out of 10
based on 25 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong language, drug use and sexual content

Starring Ice Cube, John Witherspoon, Tamala Jones, and Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.

Takes up where "Friday" left off with the action switching from South Central L.A. to suburbia. (New Line Home Video)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Ice Cube
D.J. Pooh (characters)
 
DIRECTED BY: Steve Carr  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: June 6, 2000 
Video: June 6, 2000 
Theatrical: January 12, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Hilarious.
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75
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
A slaphappy, slapdash type of affair familiar to fans of Cheech & Chong and Pauly Shore. It's your basic object lesson in why marijuana is called dope.
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75
Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
One of the freshest, nastiest comedies to come around in quite some time.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An extremely funny movie, and this is coming from someone who barely cracked a smile during ``Friday,'' the first installment of this franchise.
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70
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Nothing miraculous, but it's time pretty well spent.
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70
Film.com Tom Keogh
Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory.
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63
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
The punch line isn't that funny.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.
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50
Variety Joe Leydon
A few good laughs but few surprises in Next Friday, an amiably unfocused sequel.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Sporadically funny... occasionally very funny.
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42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.
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40
Dallas Observer Andy Klein
All the new plot stuff is way old hat, as though straight from a textbook chapter called "Conflict Drives Your Narrative!" And at times the motivations are either unclear or senseless.
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40
The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge.
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38
Boston Globe Jay Carr
The action is mostly witless and predictable. One measure of its desperation and lack of respect for its audience is the frequency with which it labors to wring humor from flatulence and excrement gags.
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38
Chicago Tribune Monica Eng
Almost comes as a breath of fresh air. Too bad it's so foul.
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38
USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
But most of the humor is about as fresh as the air left behind whenever Witherspoon uses a toilet.
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38
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It took four years to come up with this? Someone needed that long to assemble this patchy, recycled collection of gags about stinky butts, superfreaks, finger-wide blunts and racial cliches?
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38
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.
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30
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
There is plenty of nasty patter and aimless jokes about hard-core sex, soft-core drugs, dog feces and flatulence to keep you occupied while you wait, in vain, for any reason to laugh out loud.
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30
Village Voice Gary Dauphin
A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.
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30
Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola
A story disappointingly similar to the original.
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30
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
After enduring 30 minutes of awful slapstick, shit jokes, gags revolving around used condoms, cholo caricatures, and women who are all psychos, sluts or Latina fuck-dolls, I walked.
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25
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
If John Witherspoon is among the funniest men in America, as many of his fellow comics say, why is he so painful to watch here?
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25
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
The whole movie is so ineptly written and directed that its 90 minutes seem to take twice as long.
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20
TNT RoughCut Sarah Raskin
One-beat humor that is worsened by poor writing and editing.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Brian G gave it a10:
This movie was absolutely hilarious. I laughed my ass off.

Accy gave it a 10:
I'm a big fan of Ice Cube, he is hott in this movie. If you havn't seen it, your missing out.

Brody T. gave it a 10:
This movie was one of the greatest movie that I ever saw.

Skunk Boy gave it a 10:
Epps is the best. The pimp is superb. The film is soo good.

Rosie V. gave it a 10:
The movie was so funny I was cracken up da hole time ya heard and it is so funny because my unkel looks just like Chico I just wish Chris Tucker was in dis film.

Stephanie O. gave it a 10:
This Movie is really good!!!

Yoon Min C. gave it a 4:
A truly wild and riotous comedy with big laughs but after it's over you really wonder if the social pathologies plaguing the black and hispanic communities should be reduced to nothing but the basis for infantile bathroom humor.

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