Bringing Down The House (2003)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 97
Though the cast shines, they can't save this comedy, which is overly contrived and filled with outdated and offensive racial jokes.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 22
Though the cast shines, they can't save this comedy, which is overly contrived and filled with outdated and offensive racial jokes.
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A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean Smart), divorces him; he's also adjusting to his new status as a single father. Looking for companionship, Peter tries an internet dating site and virtually meets "lawyer-girl," an attractive and single fellow attorney. Peter makes a date with her, but the woman who
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Cast
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Steve Martin
Peter Sanderson -
Queen Latifah
Charlene Morton -
Eugene Levy
Howie Rosenthal -
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Arness -
Jean Smart
Kate -
Missi Pyle
Ashley -
Kimberly J. Brown
Sarah Sanderson -
Steve Harris
Widow -
Angus T. Jones
Georgey Sanderson -
Michael Rosenbaum
Todd Gendler -
Betty White
Mrs. Kline -
Michael Ensign
Daniel Barnes -
Tracey Cherelle Jones
Sofia -
Matt Lutz
Aaron Blair -
Victor Webster
Glen -
Sundy Carter
Flygirl -
Alonzo Bodden
Bear -
Aengus James
Mike
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All Critics (167) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (99) | DVD (32)
A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.
Top CriticYou have somebody as smart as Steve Martin, and as smart and appealing as Queen Latifah in a movie like this. To have such an awful, offensive story is a real disappointment.
A comedy constructed from tapped-out ideas.
A Film in Which Steve Martin Will Appear in Full Hip-Hop Drag With Appropriate Slang for Not Less Than Six Minutes.
The material is thin and pandering and almost criminally negligent in bypassing opportunities for humor.
It's a sorry situation when actors as talented and funny as Queen Latifah and Steve Martin waste their efforts in an offensive exercise that feels like a bad sitcom.
It's a wheezing, rusted machine of cheap jokes, cartoon performances, and crummy plotting, using shock value and insensitivity to make its painfully unfunny points.
Everything about this film is painfully familiar, except, perhaps, for the vicious-but-comic catfight between Latifah and Missi Pyle, who plays a high-society gold digger.
Martin and Latifah rule in boundary-pushing PG-13.
If you've seen the commercials for Bringing Down the House, you already know the movie's best moments and most memorable lines...
Irreverent but perhaps not funny enough, "Bringing Down the House" gives Queen Latifah the chance to shine opposite Steve Martin.
Audience Reviews for Bringing Down The House
Super Reviewer
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- Howie Rosenthal: I'd like to dip you in Cheez Whiz and spread you over a Ritz cracker...if I'm not being too subtle.
- Charlene Morton: Boy, you are some kind of freaky!
- Howie Rosenthal: Oh, you have no idea. You got me straight trippin', Boo!
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