B.A.P.S.: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

13%

RottenTomatoes: 30 reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

40

It's good for a half-hour of humor before the fun starts to dissolve.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

38

It's the kind of movie they don't make anymore -- and when they did, it was at the bottom of the bill after onscreen ads for local merchants.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Esther Iverem Washington Post (Top Critic)

A very funny movie.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

0

Jaw-droppingly bad, a movie so misconceived I wonder why anyone involved wanted to make it.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

Paying movie-goers deserve more, especially from someone who has previously shown signs of genuine comic aptitude.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Film4

A string of hugely unfunny shenanigans ensue.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

20

Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Time Out

You can see how the black, modern-day Pygmalion-type story could work, just, but not with this heap of cabbage leaves for a script, and not with such desperately goofy acting from Berry and Desselle.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

The story offers nothing original.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Clint Morris Moviehole

20

Full Review » 7 years ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

40

Full Review » 8 years ago
Bob Grimm Las Vegas CityLife

20

Full Review » 9 years ago
Kevin A. Ranson MovieCrypt.com

40

Not a great example of Halle Berry's talent.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

0

Full Review » 9 years ago
Michael Drakulich Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)

0

Apallingly bad. Robert Townsend's attempt at satirizing black culture is far off the mark.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

40

Full Review » 10 years ago
David Poland Hot Button

60

Full Review » 10 years ago
Bridget Byrne Boxoffice Magazine

20

Bad, amateur, poor and silly.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chris Hicks Deseret News, Salt Lake City

25

Badly timed sight gags, weak one-liners, incessant music videos and sloppy sentiment are the order of the day. The stars throw themselves into it, but to no avail.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Barbara Shulgasser San Francisco Examiner

25

Landau does the best he can with his limitations.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jack Garner Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

30

Left with nothing to do but vamp, Berry, Desselle and even the veteran Landau have little choice but to overact, trying to create explosions where there is no dynamite.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Edward Guthmann San Francisco Chronicle

63

They both do good work, but it's Desselle who steals the film and grabs the major laughs.
Full Review » 12 years ago