Review of Homie Spumoni (2006) by Jason D — 25 Jun 2009

Homie Spumoni (regardless of how stupid the name is) winded up being a fairly entertaining and surprisingly funny (at times) low-budget, straight to DVD comedy about an Italian family who takes in an abandoned black baby as their own, then move to America, where the black baby (who winds up being Donald Faison) grows up to embody the Italian culture; even disregarding the black community.

As things progress, he interacts with his best friend (Joey Fatone of N'SYNC, whose surprisingly decent in this film) and gets a new jewish girlfriend (the VERY beautiful Jamie-Lynn Sigler of Soprano's fame), but Faison's character finally reunites with his black family, consisting of parents Whoopi Goldberg and Paul Moody (who are both decently funny) and brother Tony Rock (Chris Rock's brother, who has his moments).

Now, Faison's character starts to re-learn his black roots while his Italian seems to slowly fade away. The film is fun and features decent direction from Mike Cerrone (more popular for being a common character actor for Farrelly Brothers' films).

Some of the jokes do fall flat, and the twists involving race get a little outta control and sappy. Overall, though, very decent, straight-laced (mostly language makes up the R-rating) comedy. I liked it.