| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Bob Bloom |
| BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE (2003) (Buena Vista Home Entertainment):
Despite receiving mixed reviews, this uneven comedy starring Steve
Martin and Queen Latifah provides several laughs. more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by John Ulmer (Rating: 3/5) |
| Everyone has their favorite funnymen. One of mine is Steve Martin. He brings
more of a naivety to his comedic roles. He is often someone thrown into the
midle of something. Or someone the target of laughs. He can play the Average
Joe amazingly well....more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Homer Yen (Rating: C) |
| If you haven't seen "Bringing Down the House" but
are perhaps thinking about it, you might be
swayed into watching it for two reasons. Star
Steve Martin possesses a crisp and funny persona,
boyishly appealing charm, and a
sit-up-and-take-notice...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 2.5/5) |
| Bringing Down The House, on paper, is nothing you haven't seen
before. Two people from different worlds are forced into
association, awkwardness, acceptance, and absolution. So, what does
director Adam Shankman (two horrible movies under his belt...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 2/4) |
| Tired, tacky, and not terribly funny, "Bringing Down the House" starts
with a good idea, that of putting Oscar® host Steve Martin and Oscar nominee
Queen Latifah ("Chicago") in the same movie together, and goes downhill from
there. more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| Imagine you are on a slow train moving through a tunnel lined with familiar
advertising posters, with no idea of where you're going, nothing to read, nobody
to talk to. Every once in a while the train bursts into the open, and for a few
moments you...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 6/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "Bringing Down the House" (Touchstone Pictures)
Wild 'n' crazy Steve Martin teams with Oscar-nominated Queen Latifah
("Chicago") in this ribald, politically-incorrect culture-clash comedy. Martin
plays Los Angeles tax...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: C-) |
| Divorced uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) believes he's wooing
a beautiful blonde attorney online, but is shocked to discover that Charlene
(Queen Latifah, "Chicago") is actually a large Black prison escapee who wants
him to take her case....more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 3/10) |
| Want to hear something funnier than any joke in Bringing Down the House?
Queen Latifah has more Oscar nominations than Steve Martin, arguably
America's finest and most consistently funny comedic actor. That Martin has
been reduced to performing in junk...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| Isn't slavery funny? Ugh! With offensive racial humor and with drug smoking in
a PG-13 comedy, BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE is one Disney film that families can
certainly do without. Although its pairing of the always wonderful Steve Martin
with the sassy...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 4/10) |
| PLOT:
A divorced older white man meets a fast-talking, sexy black woman on the
Internet who proceeds to semi-blackmail him into helping her prove her innocence
in a false arrest charge. The man wants nothing to do with her, but it isn't
long before she...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4) |
| Where is caller ID when you need it? In THE RING, right after you view a
certain videotape, a caller, from what sounds like the Great Beyond, tells you
that you have seven days to live. The Grim Reaper on the phone is a female with
a very precise stop...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "The Ring" (DreamWorks)
With a timely Halloween release, "The Ring" is the best horror film
since "The Sixth Sense," "The Changeling" and "Psycho." Based on the Japanese
hit "Ringu," the suspenseful story revolves...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: C-) |
| When reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts, "Mulholland Drive") honors her
sister's request to discover the cause of her fifteen year old niece Katie's
death, she could never imagine the evil she will encounter in director
Gore Verbinski's ("The Mexican,"...more |
| Bringing Down the House Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: C-) |
| In 1998 a Japanese horror film named "Ringu," by Hideo Nakata, was
released and, because of its originality and genuine spookiness,
attained a considerable cult following. It is the story of an urban
legend - when you watch a certain surreal videotape of...more |
