Balancing comedy with drama is tough for the best writers and even tougher for newcomers.
Comment
01/01/00
Foolish (1999)
00
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:0
Rotten:14
Average Rating:3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Eddie Griffin is Miles "Foolish" Waise, a fast rising nightclub comedian. His life is made difficult by his manager, who wants him to sell out for big bucks, and his brother Quentin "Fifty Dollah"... [More]
Starring: Eddie Griffin, Master P, Frank Sivero, Daphnee Duplaix
Director: Dave Meyers
Get This Movie
Reviews for Foolish
1 - 14 (sorted by source)
No review available.
07/31/02
It's probably more reasonable to evaluate it as an Eddie Griffin concert film.
01/01/00
The miserable production values—the cardboard sets rival a Little Rascals talent show—and P's stone-faced delivery are merely amateurish, but as a vanity project for Griffin, Foolish is downright appalling.
08/03/09
Click to read the article
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
09/07/05
What would inspire someone who cannot write or act to pen and star in a movie?
01/01/00
The whole thing has an off-puttingly thrown-together air.
01/01/00
Pretty much a bad excuse to work in stand-up material courtesy of Griffin, scenes with Andrew Dice Clay, and buxom, naked chicks.
04/10/01
The film loses complete credibility when the audiences at the comedy clubs where Foolish works go wild with delight, way out of proportion to the hilarity of the material. And Foolish is just a little too smug about his artistic integrity.
01/01/00
Griffin’s few sparks onstage are not worth the wait.
08/07/08
Simpleminded melodrama about two brothers' conflicting struggles to better their lives. Oops, not only did I describe the story, I just gave the entire story away. Sorry.
01/20/07
Eddie Griffin buffs have the best reason to check out this amateurish effort: Griffin's profane, sometimes sharply observed stand-up routines take up a big chunk of the movie's total running time.
08/03/09
A strange combination of urban melodrama and comedy concert film.
08/03/09
1 - 14 (sorted by source)
RT On Current TV
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
MSN's Year in Review 
Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.
Moviefone's Year End Movie Poll
What were your favorites? Least favorites? The funniest and scariest? Moviefone wants to know!
Tarantino's Characters
Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.
Top 10 Movies of 2009
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Top 20 of the Decade
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds