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Juwanna Mann (2002)

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 75

With its tired premise, Juwanna Mann's jokes fall flat.

8

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 22

With its tired premise, Juwanna Mann's jokes fall flat.

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Average Rating: 2.5/5
User Ratings: 7,978

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Movie Info

It's Big Momma's House on the three-point line in this broad farce, which marks the leading man/woman debut of longtime character actor Miguel A. Nunez. Nunez stars as Jamal Jefferies, a hotheaded pro basketball player whose on-court antics and quick temper get him booted from the league altogether. Faster than you can say Dennis Rodman, Jamal has transformed himself into the busty Juwanna Mann in order to be a forward for a high-intensity team in the WUBA league, the Charlotte Banshees. Behind

PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

Comedy

Bradley Allenstein

Nov 19, 2002

$13.4M

Warner Bros.

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All Critics (86) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (77) | DVD (8)

The idea of transposing the story to the macho, greedy world of big-time sports is promising, but director Jesse Vaughan delivers only flat dialogue and predictable situations.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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The movie is sloppily edited, the gags limply staged, the dialogue and jokes stiff and stale. Even the action on the basketball court is unimaginative and boring.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Associated Press | Comment
Associated Press
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A Tootsie-role sports farce that's a drag in every which way.

July 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Simplistic, silly and tedious.

June 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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This flat run at a hip-hop Tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines.

June 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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[Brings] absolutely no fresh angles to a time-tested formula that's seemed particularly overworked of late.

June 24, 2002 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Cross-dressing sports comedy has lockerroom humor.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

As limp as it is lazy.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

An unpersuasive moral journey, with a smattering of laughs, that fails to justify the insulting premise that only a man can help the ladies win at both basketball and love.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Bogus and wickedly unoriginal.

January 15, 2004 Comment
Radio Free Entertainment

Juwanna man? No, we wanna good laugh.

November 26, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis

...about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season.

November 26, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis

Some like it lukewarm in this tale.

November 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Vaughan brings such disregard to the film that its pedestrian on-court action might as well have been shot from the bleacher seats.

November 18, 2002 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

It's hard to know what to make of a film such as this, with its implicit message that it takes men to empower women in sports.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
Cincinnati Enquirer

The referee should have cried 'foul' on this long before it hit the screens.

October 6, 2002 Full Review Source: FilmFour.com | Comment
FilmFour.com

'Wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra?'

October 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI) | Comment
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

This mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy.

September 23, 2002 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

What a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is!

September 18, 2002 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Juwanna Mann

This movie was funny, but really had no point at all. Just a silly movie for when you wanna laugh I guess.

December 11, 2009
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Miguel A. Nunez plays Jamal Jeffries, a NBA bad boy whose court antics are so outrageous; he gets booted out the league so he decides to dress as a woman and join the WNBA. To his surprise, he makes it but ends up starting to fall for his teammate, Michelle (played by Vivica A. Fox.) The rest of the movie is hilarious

November 3, 2010
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