Steve Martin,
Queen Latifah,
Eugene Levy,
Joan Plowright,
Jean Smart
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A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on trac... read more
Directed by: Adam Shankman
Release Date: March 7, 2003
Keywords:
queen latifah,
eugene levy,
steve martin,
love queen,
bringing down,
Queen Latifah ,
Steve Martin ,
Eugene Levy ,
Bringing Down
DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003
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June 11, 2009please please god take Queen Latifas ego down one notch. did her parents HAVE TO name her Queen?? what did they think that would do to her??
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August 31, 2008This movie is so fanatically racist at times that, had Steve Martin not been starring in it, I could swear I was watching Roots. And with Eugene Levy co-starring here with his lifelong list of films he's been in (read: every single one ever) it wouldn't surprise me if he was righ... read more
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July 29, 2008Dear Steve Martin, what happened to you? You were in some of the funniest movies of the 80s and you didn't seem to age one bit. Why do they not offer you decent scripts anymore? Why do you do movies like this? Sure, it's not awful, has its moments and it's actually you and Queen ... read more
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September 30, 2007Only way this movie's bringing down the house is if Queen Latifah sits on it.
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Critic Reviews
April 22, 2003
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
March 18, 2003
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
You have somebody as smart as Steve Martin, and as smart and appealing as Queen Latifah in a movie like this. To have such an awful, offensive story is a real disappointment. Full Review
March 14, 2003
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
A comedy constructed from tapped-out ideas.
March 11, 2003
Jane Dark, Village Voice
A Film in Which Steve Martin Will Appear in Full Hip-Hop Drag With Appropriate Slang for Not Less Than Six Minutes. Full Review
March 9, 2003
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
The material is thin and pandering and almost criminally negligent in bypassing opportunities for humor. Full Review
March 7, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today
It's a sorry situation when actors as talented and funny as Queen Latifah and Steve Martin waste their efforts in an offensive exercise that feels like a bad sitcom. Full Review
March 7, 2003
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
The laughs should roll like thunder, but instead they mew like kittens. Full Review
March 7, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
This is strictly formula stuff, made worse by an utterly careless depiction of the characters, whose road to friendship is neither believable nor remotely accounted for. Full Review
March 7, 2003
Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
The material has been done before and there's not much more one can do with it. Thank God for Queen Latifah and the broad strokes she brings to it. Full Review
March 7, 2003
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
A gut-busting black-and-white culture clash comedy.
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