Friday After Next 2002

Critics score:
26 / 100

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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: All this South Central color gives Friday After Next a lived-in feel that endears you to the characters and the way they live. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Cube and Epps play off each other well, but the comedy's success lies mostly in its talented stable of supporting actors. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie often feels as if it were just marking time, counting on your memory of the first two films to make you laugh at characters who seemed much funnier, and less belabored, seven years ago. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is a terrible movie, one of the worst comedies of the year. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: A raucous, riotous, blisteringly obscene comedy. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Cranks up an impressive amount of energy considering that it's the third installment. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: Friday movies are a lot like an African-American version of Seinfeld; they're really about nothing. And if you can appreciate the cultural dislocation of their urban California milieu, same as Seinfeld, they can be funny as hell. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Just for fun -- a break from shopping, tree trimming, cooking, cleaning, wrapping and all the rest. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The constant flow of calamities spotlights a lot of talented and funny people under music video veteran Marcus Raboy's buoyant, good-natured direction. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Friday After Next has the same problem that Next Friday did -- it's called Where's Chris Tucker When You Need Him? Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: I didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of Cube, and his skinny buddy Mike Epps, to make like Laurel and Hardy 'n the hood. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Humor doesn't get much broader or thinner than this. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny. Read more

Kevin M. Williams, Chicago Tribune: Hews to the Sequel Curve (first one good, the rest increasingly mediocre). Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Leisurely, waxy potpourri of messy sight gags, coarse sex jokes and all-pro bad behavior. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There's an audience for it, but it could have been funnier and more innocent. Read more

Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: You'd have to be applying pretty loose critical standards to describe Friday After Next ... as a good movie, but in the coming weeks it may certainly prove a useful one. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: Frenetic but not really funny. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: This is surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pics ever delivered by a Hollywood studio. Read more

Edward Crouse, Village Voice: A manically generous Christmas vaudeville. Read more