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Next Friday
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9.1

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FILM:

Friday After Next

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

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Hilarious.

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.

Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers

One of the freshest, nastiest comedies to come around in quite some time.

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.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nothing miraculous, but it's time pretty well spent.

Film.com Tom Keogh

Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

The punch line isn't that funny.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.

Variety Joe Leydon

A few good laughs but few surprises in Next Friday, an amiably unfocused sequel.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Sporadically funny... occasionally very funny.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.

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.

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.

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.

Chicago Tribune Monica Eng

Almost comes as a breath of fresh air. Too bad it's so foul.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

But most of the humor is about as fresh as the air left behind whenever Witherspoon uses a toilet.

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?

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.

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.

Village Voice Gary Dauphin

A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.

Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola

A story disappointingly similar to the original.

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.

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?

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

The whole movie is so ineptly written and directed that its 90 minutes seem to take twice as long.

TNT RoughCut Sarah Raskin

One-beat humor that is worsened by poor writing and editing.

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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