Juwanna Mann 2002

Janice Page, Boston Globe: Beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines ... there just isn't much to laugh at. Read more

Charles Savage, Miami Herald: A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Simplistic, silly and tedious. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: The movie is sloppily edited, the gags limply staged, the dialogue and jokes stiff and stale. Even the action on the basketball court is unimaginative and boring. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: It's tempting to call traveling on Juwanna Mann, except it never goes anywhere. This film fouls out. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: A sloppy, amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: A lot of talent is wasted in this crass, low-wattage endeavor. Read more

Ted Shen, Chicago Reader: The idea of transposing the story to the macho, greedy world of big-time sports is promising, but director Jesse Vaughan delivers only flat dialogue and predictable situations. Read more

Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: About the best thing I can say about Juwanna Mann is that it's not dreadful. Read more

Bob Campbell, Houston Chronicle: Harmless. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A Tootsie-role sports farce that's a drag in every which way. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: Here's a truly novel sports film: It actually has a script, decent acting, sympathetic characters. And it's fun. Read more

Rasmi Simhan, Dallas Morning News: It's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script. Read more

Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly: Vaughan brings such disregard to the film that its pedestrian on-court action might as well have been shot from the bleacher seats. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I can't recommend Juwanna Mann and yet I admire the pluck of the actors, especially Nunez, Fox and Tommy Davidson. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Flat, misguided comedy. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: You can thank me for this. I saw Juwanna Mann so you don't have to. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: An unpersuasive moral journey, with a smattering of laughs, that fails to justify the insulting premise that only a man can help the ladies win at both basketball and love. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: For it to work, you have to accept the irredeemable stupidity of almost every character. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: [Brings] absolutely no fresh angles to a time-tested formula that's seemed particularly overworked of late. Read more

Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: This flat run at a hip-hop Tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Tired and flat as a dead basketball. Read more