Friday After Next Critic Reviews

Fast and raunchy, Friday After Next surely stands apart from other holiday-themed movies for its gleeful low-down humor and a raft of uninhibited characters involved in one outrageous predicament after another.Read the full review

Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life.Read the full review

The trouble with movies like those in the "Friday" series is that their success can lead to a need to inflate their importance, inviting pretentious descriptions like "folkloric" when "Friday" is much closer to chitlin circuit comedy.Read the full review

Anyone who pays to see it will certainly feel as if he has been clipped.Read the full review

I guess there's an audience for it, and Ice Cube has paid dues in better and more positive movies ("Barbershop" among them). But surely laughs can be found in something other than this worked-over material.Read the full review

The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious.Read the full review

The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there.Read the full review

Lacks the spirit of the previous two, and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck.Read the full review

Surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pic ever delivered by a Hollywood studio.Read the full review