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Written by Bootsie and
Takashi Bufford. Directed by Jeff Pollack. Starring Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson,
Vivica A. Fox and Tamala Jones. USA, 1997
Two buddies go out on a
double date and spend the night jumping through hoop after hoop in an attempt
to get laid, with absurd results.
There’s plenty in this
flick that’s dated, and you could write an entire treatise on which jokes
wouldn’t fly today and which ones would, but if you look past all that you get
a fairly sex positive comedy about two men who want to get laid, and two women
who want to get laid, and the things they have to do to make it happen in a
responsible manner. It’s this interesting contrast between rated-R comedy and
rated-G sentiment, and I guess that’s what keeps it from seeming mean spirited
– that and the fact that the men and the women are on at least an even playing
field (although the women may actually have the upper hand). This movie’s
probably most notable from an early Jamie Fox comedic performance, but the real
stand out for me was Vivica A. Fox who, you guess it, should do more comedies.
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