Next Friday (2000)

Simply A Masterpiece

Pretty Good

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I was sitting there in front of my computer screen searching the depths of the internet looking for a movie to watch when I stumbled upon the "classic" series, Friday...I said what the hell and rented the lot of them. I thought they'd be a laugh. Wrong, well half wrong, I was blasted away by the sheer production of this sequel! Horrible.First off, I felt like Ice Cube and Mike Epps could have easily filmed this on a lazy Sunday afternoon and shipped this out while drunk to the movies. It was so hard to understand them talking because half the time they were talking at the same time...I was embarrassed for them! The jokes were so stale and stagnant I couldn't even muster a snort of laughter because it was that bad...the Mexican gangsters were supposed to be the three stooges? I could have gotten high and I still would have thought this movie sucked. The suburbs??? I thought the only character that was interesting was Uncle Elroy and that's because he wore Rick James's reject articles. I'm sorry fans of this movie but re-watch it without being high and you'll see how wrong you were. 3/10

Next Friday is the follow up to successful cult film, Friday. Which seems like an urban sequel to Booty Call more than Friday. This one takes place exactly a week after "Friday" did.Next Friday is about Craig Jones (Ice Cube) who reprises his role as Craig, goes to live with his uncle in Cucamonga after the neighborhood bully he beat up escapes from prison. Chris Tucker's character Smokey is said to go to rehab. Mike Epps takes the role of the supporting character, Day-Day, Craig's cousin. Day Day is basically the "hood" kinda guy, also denying he's the father of his girlfriend's child. His girlfriend takes many stands trying to beat him up, using her sister Baby D.Meanwhile, the neighborhood bully, Debo, from the first Friday, Escapes from jail trying to hunt down Craig while sneaking in the back of Craig's dads truck. Which they tricked him in driving down to Cucamonga saying Craig was hurt.In the line of "Good Sequels" and "Bad Sequels", this has it's moment, but its nothing compared to classic "Friday." This one tries to have a lot of memoirs to the first movie, which it does, but many are forgettable. Still a decent sequel, I recommend Next Friday, but see the old Friday before this or you will be lost.Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, and John Witherspoon. Directed by: Steve Carr.

I saw Next Friday a day after I've seen it's prequel: Friday. It seems like only yesterday...Well, frankly speaking, it was yesterday when I've seen the next Friday movie.I didn't think a lot of it, I always thought Friday was one of the so-so movies ever, except it's grand sequel "Friday after next". When I watched Next Friday yesterday, I thought it was pretty good... for a So-So movie hehe... Of course not as good as Friday and Friday After Next but I got a good laugh out of it, and now I think of it a so-so highly. Of course Smokey should have been there too but, anyways, at least there's Day Day but it shows a character from a different perception and Day Day is a funny guy but Smokey is one of the best characters in any movie. They need to bring Smokey back. All in all grade: Next Friday is good too and is definitely worth seeing...Just don't forget yo weeds!

This weekend I thought I'd run through the first two of the Friday trilogy, and after I saw the first one, I was somewhat disappointed. Chris Tucker and Ice Cube were great, along with John Witherspoon, but this movie could have been so much better. Next Friday, now, this was good. It was hysterical. I would have liked to see Chris Tucker in it, but Mike Epps coming into the role as Ice Cubes cousin in a nice suburb was awesome. John Witherspoon was again hilarious here and Debo was back in it breaking out of jail. The Mexican neighbors were hilarious, and so was Roach. This movie had more of a plot than the first one and it was a lot more funny. Now, I need to watch Friday After Next to finish the trilogy. Chris Tucker is one of my favorite actors and I can't wait until Rush Hour 3. I gave Friday-6, and Next Friday- 8. Also, if you guys haven't seen Coach Carter, you should definitely go out and see it.