MOVIE - BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE - $$$$$ $ (OUT OF 10)
STARRING - Steve Martin (Peter Sanderson), Queen Latifah (Charlene), Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright (Mrs. Arness), Jean Smart, Kimberly J. Brown, Angus T. Jones & Betty White.
DIRECTOR - Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner, A Walk to Remember)
A comedy about a female African-American ex-convict helping an uptight white tax lawyer get his groove back.
Portions of Bringing Down The House are double over in pain from laughing too hard funny and there are other portions that are just painful.
Steve Martin's performance is the source of many of the funniest moments in Bringing Down The House. Queen Latifah, demonstrating her range as an actress, is the perfect foil for Martin's antics and steals the occasional scene in the process.
The painful moments in Bringing Down The House have two sources. The first is the story itself which even by movie comedy standards turns into the equivalent of a bad chase scene and is both unbelievable and tedious.
The other source of pain in the movie derives from how low it stoops, at times, to get a laugh. Bringing Down The House resurrects some of the most vile forms of racist attitudes towards and stereotypes of African-Americans. That's a shame.
Bringing Down The House will make you laugh and cringe at the same time.
Running time - 105 minutes
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