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#HOUSE PARTY 2 MOVIE#
In a movie where political correctness is at such a high premium, it seems odd that the pajama jam - where everyone is supposed to wear nighties - is essentially a pretext for displaying sexy women in their underwear. There's such exuberant life in these scenes that the intrusive preaching can almost be forgiven. When the final party blasts off - a pajama jam, dreamed up by Play as a scheme to replace Kid's stolen tuition money - the music and the dancing take over and the movie lifts off too. He's brilliantly funny, with a style all his own. In nearly every scene he upstages his costars - the jokes spring from his lips as if he'd just thought them up. As a result, the movie is completely stolen from them by Lawrence, who does a real star-making turn here. There's something lackadaisical about their performances their hearts don't seem to be in it. Ladle the moral lessons on top of that and you've got a lot of painfully uninspired, unfunny talk.Īlso, neither Kid nor Play, so irresistible in the first film, seems to be at his best. There's a lost tuition check, a crooked producer, a misunderstanding with Kid's girlfriend, Sidney (Tisha Campbell), and some friction with her radical femme roommate, Zora (Queen Latifah), and, at times, you feel bogged down in the mess of storytelling. There's too much to explicate, too many subplots to connect. The story here is tangled and overly complex. As Pops put it, "Every little step you take tonight is going to be around this bedroom." But the party. The first film was simplicity itself: Kid and his pals Play (Christopher Martin) and Bilal (Martin Lawrence) were planning to raise the roof at Play's house, and Kid's father had grounded him for getting kicked out of school. If he blows this, he's blowing it big time. There's added pressure, too, because his tuition money came from the congregation at his church. This time, Kid (Christopher Reid) is off to college, and he's in a panic because Pops (Robin Harris, who makes a posthumous appearance) wanted so badly for him to get his education. What we have here is a case of righteousness in the wrong places the story is weighed down with a burden of seriousness from the get-go.
#HOUSE PARTY 2 PC#
And, in this context, the PC militancy is oil to comedy's water. It's just that political correctness seems to be its first priority.
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It's not a dull affair, really, except when the lectures become hectoring and strident. Some of the gags are priceless, and the filmmakers have splashy flair with a punch line. Where the movie is funny, it's really funny. And the picture, which was directed by George Jackson and Doug McHenry and based on the characters the Hudlins created, has some of the pop-culture snap and some of the same cartoony comic juice the first film had. It's not so much a rap party as a rap session. It's more of a consciousness-raising exercise - a lesson in black history and feminism - masquerading as a party. Tisha and I literally battled, did our steps, and then Kid was like ‘Oh hell no.’ Reginald loved it and said we got to film it.In actual fact, "House Party 2," the follow-up to the Hudlin brothers' infectious funk comedy, isn't a party at all. I went to Spelman, I am a Delta, and that was all we did at parties - it was always a dance battle. They didn’t even know what a dance battle was. “I choreographed the dancing scene for me and Tisha in ‘House Party.’ There was no dancing. Johnson also choreographed the film’s dance battle - a detail not in the original draft that she insisted on adding. We made more money on the Burger King commercial than we did in the movie!” The movie became so popular Burger King called me and Play to do a commercial. It was that low-budget - we all made $4,000, flat. “The clothes that you saw in the movie were all ours. Johnson, 57, perhaps still best known for her role as Sharane in 1990’s “House Party,” clued Page Six in on some behind-the-scenes secrets from the iconic film.
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Johnson’s career, but Burger King helped her bank account.