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B.A.P.S. (1997)

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Reviews Counted:30

Fresh:4

Rotten:26

Average Rating:3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Two southern-fried, gold-digging Georgia peaches (also known as "Black American Princesses") hit Hollywood to audition for a music video to raise cash. But they really hit the jackpot when the... Two southern-fried, gold-digging Georgia peaches (also known as "Black American Princesses") hit Hollywood to audition for a music video to raise cash. But they really hit the jackpot when the director's unctuous nephew involves them in a scam to trick his wealthy old employer into believing that one of the B.A.P.s is his long-lost love's granddaughter. [More]

Starring: Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle, Martin Landau, Robert Townsend

Starring: Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle, Martin Landau, Robert Townsend, Ian Richardson, Troy Beyer, Luigi Amodeo, Jonathan Fried, A.J. Johnson, Bernie Mac, Darrell Heath, Vince Cooke, Faizon Love, Rudy Ray Moore, Darrow Igus, Debra Wilson, Robin Van Sharner, Jessica Page, Alex Thomas, Eric Poppick, Downtown Julie Brown, Heavy D, Idalis DeLeon, Howard Hewitt, LL Cool J, Leon, Dennis Rodman

Director: Robert Townsend

Director: Robert Townsend
Screenwriter: Troy Beyer
Composer: Stanley Clarke
Producer: Mark Burg, Loretha C. Jones

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A string of hugely unfunny shenanigans ensue.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
07/21/09
Channel 4 Film

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.

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Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
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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.

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04/26/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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.

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01/26/06
Time Out

The story offers nothing original.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

No review available.

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03/23/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

No review available.

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04/07/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

No review available.

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03/23/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

No review available.

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11/19/03
Bob Grimm
Bob Grimm
Las Vegas CityLife

Not a great example of Halle Berry's talent.

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06/24/03
Kevin A. Ranson
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

No review available.

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06/05/03
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Apallingly bad. Robert Townsend's attempt at satirizing black culture is far off the mark.

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11/27/02
Michael Drakulich
Michael Drakulich
Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)

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08/23/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

No review available.

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08/14/02
David Poland
David Poland
Hot Button

Bad, amateur, poor and silly.

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06/05/02
Bridget Byrne
Bridget Byrne
Boxoffice Magazine

It's bad, real bad, with frequently excruciating dialogue, often bewildering storytelling and a denouement actually drowned out by incidental music, that makes for a painful and staggeringly inept movie.

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01/01/00
Empire Magazine

Landau does the best he can with his limitations.

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01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

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.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

They both do good work, but it's Desselle who steals the film and grabs the major laughs.

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Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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A very funny movie.

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01/01/00
Esther Iverem
Esther Iverem
Washington Post
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