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NUMBERS
Box Office: $32,983,713
VHS Rentals: $7,310,000
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CONSENSUS
This Friday installment is more shapeless and stale than its predecessors.
CAST & CREW
Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Don "D.C." Curry
Directed by Marcus Raboy
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SYNOPSIS
It is Christmas Eve for most of the Christian world, but when Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) are rudely awaken by a burglar in a Santa suit, it is definitely another FRIDAY in the ghetto. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, sexual content, and drug use
RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 22, 2002
Video: Mar 25, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
New Line Cinema
GENRE
Comedies, Series, Holiday, Christmas, Santa Claus
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Friday After Next Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
FORUM
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 "Writer Cube and director Marcus Raboy vigorously mix Christmas cheer and and real life, and the result is as tasty as eggnog spiked with whiskey."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"It's all a rather shapeless good time..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
 "Epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made Tucker a star."
-- Mack Bates, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Ice Cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas, but Friday After Next spreads them pretty thin."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by African-Americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards African-Americans."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"...unlikable, uninteresting, unfunny, and completely, utterly inept."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"A whole lot foul, freaky and funny."
-- Yvonne Dennis, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"It gets old quickly. Watch Barbershop again if you're in need of a Cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through."
-- Dan Fazio, CITYSEARCH
"To my taste, the film's comic characters come perilously close to being Amoses and Andys for a new generation."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY
"The appeal of the vulgar, sexist, racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
"I wish I could say "Thank God It's Friday", but the truth of the matter is I was glad when it was over."
-- Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"All comedy is subversive, but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad."
-- Nell Minow, MOVIE MOM
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"The only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow."
-- James Brundage, FILMCRITIC.COM
"This isn't a "Friday" worth waiting for."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"I like my Christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Friday After Next is a lot more bluster than bite."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Friday movies are a lot like an African-American version of Seinfeld; they're really about nothing. And if you can appreciate the cultural dislocation of their urban California milieu, same as Seinfeld, they can be funny as hell."
-- Ted Fry, SEATTLE TIMES
"Never having seen the first two films in the series, I can't compare Friday After Next to them, but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
"The movie has no respect for laws, political correctness or common decency, but it displays something more important: respect for its flawed, crazy people."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"A movie just for Friday fans, critics be damned. If you already like this sort of thing, this is that sort of thing all over again."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
"It shares the first two films' loose-jointed structure, but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Far more enjoyable than its predecessor."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
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ROTTEN 32%
Avg. Rating: 4.9/10 |
"Frenetic but not really funny."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"A manically generous Christmas vaudeville."
-- Edward Crouse, VILLAGE VOICE
"The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"There's an audience for it, but it could have been funnier and more innocent."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"It's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Friday After Next has the same problem that Next Friday did -- it's called Where's Chris Tucker When You Need Him?"
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"I didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of Cube, and his skinny buddy Mike Epps, to make like Laurel and Hardy 'n the hood."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"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."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"This is surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pics ever delivered by a Hollywood studio."
-- Robert Koehler, VARIETY
"Just for fun -- a break from shopping, tree trimming, cooking, cleaning, wrapping and all the rest."
-- Bob Longino, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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"There must be an audience that enjoys the Friday series, but I wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personally."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Friday After Next" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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