Review of Next Friday (2000) by Steven Y — 27 Mar 2009

This sequel doesn't work quite as effectively as the original--Of course, we don't have Smokey this time around--but I laughed a lot. Watching it a second time around, I found it pretty dull, but the first time I liked it.

Mike Epps is very funny as Cube's cousin. John Witherspoon also provides some good supporting laughs. And I liked the uncle--I'm not sure what his name is, but I've seen him before. The jokes get repetitive at times, sometimes lame, sometimes just all-out crude, but they're often effective.

Cube is a good writer, and he came up with such original lines like, "You ever heard of El Nino?" "Yes." "Well, this is El Negro." There were many wacky moments where I laughed hard, like the one with Pinky, the owner of a music store who comes to work in a limo and struts around like a pimp.