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Honey (2003)

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20

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 90

An attractive Jessica Alba and energetic dance numbers provide some lift to this corny and formulaic movie.

18

Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 27

An attractive Jessica Alba and energetic dance numbers provide some lift to this corny and formulaic movie.

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 444,268

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Dark Angel-lead Jessica Alba stars in the title role of this film, the feature debut from music-video director Bille Woodruff. Honey is a girl from the streets who works in a record store, teaches the occasional dance class at a community center, and treks downtown every weekend to hit the clubs and try out some new moves. There, she meets a music video producer (David Moscow) who offers her a chance to be a choreographer -- but at a price she eventually learns she's unwilling to pay. Determined

PG-13,

Musical & Performing Arts, Drama

Mar 23, 2004

$30.2M

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This is fairy tale stuff, its saintly hip-hop heroine far too worthy for comfort and its dialogue hilariously banal.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Derek Adams
Time Out
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The girl's gotta dance -- and meets little resistance -- in this hip-hop take on an age-old theme.

December 9, 2003
Sheri Linden
Hollywood Reporter
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The star-is-born trajectory nourishes some howlers ... as well as a thumpingly unsubtle portrayal of the creative process.

December 9, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice
Ed Park
Village Voice
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It's so predictable.

December 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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There's an entertainingly ludicrous movie lurking somewhere inside of the ludicrous, mediocre one this actually is.

December 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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Honey's a little too darling for reality.

December 5, 2003
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Honey is just dumb but teens love it.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media

Oooh boy, whoever greenlit this baby is going to have some explaining to do.

April 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Cheerfully undemanding.

July 13, 2004 Full Review Source: BBC
Stella Papamichael
BBC

Alba's quite easy on the eye, and admittedly, a bit of a star in the making.

June 5, 2004
Clint Morris
Moviehole

What does Honey do in the face of dilemma? Come see this touching film to find out.

May 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum

Some dazzling acrobatic dance moves, but the story is pretty lame. The DVD, however, with quality extras, rates a B.

May 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Extras on the disc include a somewhat tiresome reel of 16 deleted scenes, which runs more than half an hour in length.

March 24, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Jamie Gillies
Apollo Guide

A preposterously transparent attempt to market hip-hop in as anodyne a way as possible, but -- for its target audience of pre-teenage girls -- it works.

March 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK]
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Not nearly as good as Britney Spears' cheese-fest Crossroads...

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

No work of genius, but unexpectedly endearing.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Gazette
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette Source: Movie Gazette

Honey has an earnestness that's hard to ignore, but easy to dislike.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

Occasionally preachy and always predictable, it's nevertheless executed with efficiency and a little charm.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: BBC
Nev Pierce
BBC

The only highlight is Missy Elliott doing a cameo, as herself.

February 24, 2004 Full Review Source: Modamag.com
Susan Granger
Modamag.com
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Not bad for a dance film fitting in around the hip-hop scene. It has a good cast, some good dance scenes but not with any real wow factor. Unfortunately it becomes all a bit predictable and it's not as dramatic as I think they hoped for. It's no Save the last dance, but still not bad for a dance flick.
January 30, 2007
Deano78
Dean !

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Such an inspirational film. The soundtrack was amazing and the ending of the film couldn't help but make you smile. Full of positivity and really motivates you. It wasn't a bad film for Jessica Alba to start with at all.
June 23, 2011
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

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