Friday (New Line Platinum Series) Review
Anything can happen on a Friday, right? Well, that's just the thing in "the hood," where Craig (Cube) and Smokey (Tucker) have to pay a drug dealer two hundred dollars by ten o'clock at night. And of course, some weird and silly stuff goes on in the movie. And of course, there's some hilarious stuff from beginning to end.
This is one of those comedy-dramas that really works. Most of the humor really kicks in, and it results in some pretty big laughs, as well as some surprisingly dramatic moments. With the hilarious scenes, I haven't laughed this much since I've seen Pineapple Express. Ice Cube and Chris Tucker make a great duo, and the supporting cast aren't that bad, either. While this movie may not be high-quality comedy/drama, it's still extremely entertaining. Friday is a winner!
Grade: A-
Friday (New Line Platinum Series) Feature
- ICE CUBE/TUCKER/MAC/WITHERSPOO
Friday (New Line Platinum Series) Overview
A youth tries to survive life in L.A.'s hip-hoppin' South Central 'hood. Includes two music videos from the #1 hit soundtrack. Starring Chris Tucker and Ice Cube.
DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interviews
Music Video
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer
Friday (New Line Platinum Series) Specifications
Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as
Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube,
Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day in the life of a pair of African American youth in South Central. Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the ultimate humiliation: getting fired on his day off. Then unknown Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshipping homeboy whose love for the green stuff lands him in predicament after predicament. Sitting on the stoop of Craig's rundown home, the two hilariously confront a kaleidoscopic array of gangbangers, weed dealers, crack heads, prostitutes, scheming girlfriends, and neighborhood bullies--all of whom, it should be noted, come off as sympathetic even as they are being caricatured, a true achievement in the crass, "booty call" environment of '90s African American comedy.
--Ethan Brown
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