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House Party is a light, entertaining teen comedy with an infectious energy.
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
Clearly this is no masterpiece, but as its US reception indicated, it is a product overdue in the market, and it compares well with its anaemic counterparts. Aug 16, 2007 | Full Review…
Clearly this is no masterpiece, but as its US reception indicated, it is a product overdue in the market, and it compares well with its anaemic counterparts.
All of the performances are good and the soundtrack pulses with humor as well as decibels. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5
All of the performances are good and the soundtrack pulses with humor as well as decibels.
Vincent Canby
There's a lot more energy and social reality in this picture than one is accustomed to finding in teen exploitation movies; the cutting is often dynamic, and Hudlin generally does a good job of keeping things moving. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
There's a lot more energy and social reality in this picture than one is accustomed to finding in teen exploitation movies; the cutting is often dynamic, and Hudlin generally does a good job of keeping things moving.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
[It's] fast-moving, never dull, extremely funny, and manages to touch, with lighthearted (and R-rated) profundity on almost every youthful issue you can imagine, including police harassment, teenage sex, the all-too-easy road to jail and alcohol drinking. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
[It's] fast-moving, never dull, extremely funny, and manages to touch, with lighthearted (and R-rated) profundity on almost every youthful issue you can imagine, including police harassment, teenage sex, the all-too-easy road to jail and alcohol drinking.
Desson Thomson
House Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
House Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning.
Hal Hinson
House Party is silly and high-spirited and not particularly significant, and that is just as it should be. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
House Party is silly and high-spirited and not particularly significant, and that is just as it should be.
Roger Ebert
'90 hip-hop comedy marred by gay slurs. Lots of cursing. Mar 22, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
'90 hip-hop comedy marred by gay slurs. Lots of cursing.
Brian Costello
An energetic and hilarious party film with charming stars, a killer soundtrack, and some great moments... Apr 1, 2012 | Full Review…
An energetic and hilarious party film with charming stars, a killer soundtrack, and some great moments...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
This is a feel-good no-brainer with a party-loving cast and flat-top hairdos you could play pool on. Mar 18, 2008 | Full Review…
This is a feel-good no-brainer with a party-loving cast and flat-top hairdos you could play pool on.
Film4 Staff
Crude and cartoony but hypnotic in its infectious energy, this low-budget comedy about a night in the lives of some black teenagers is an auspicious debut from brothers Reginald (directing) and Warrington (producing) Hudlin. Jul 18, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Crude and cartoony but hypnotic in its infectious energy, this low-budget comedy about a night in the lives of some black teenagers is an auspicious debut from brothers Reginald (directing) and Warrington (producing) Hudlin.
The first--and best--of the three black comedies made of the same concept, this joyful picture was far less cloying than its white counterpart movies of the 1960s. Dec 7, 2006 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The first--and best--of the three black comedies made of the same concept, this joyful picture was far less cloying than its white counterpart movies of the 1960s.
Emanuel Levy
This is the only House Party that counts. Mar 10, 2003 | Full Review…
This is the only House Party that counts.
Marjorie Baumgarten
Entertaining and terrible funny.
Super Reviewer
Ah this was a great funny film when I saw it years ago about a big house party. It is very funny in places.
Good lines
I liked it. This was what you wanted your parties to be like when I was younger. They never were though and it was never as easy to hook up with the girls as this movie made it look. There were some really funny parts and a lot of them included Robin Harris. He was a comic that went out early in life but he brought a lot to the small part in this flick. Kid and Play were the black Corey's and I liked all the flicks they popped up in even though they were all pretty simple in nature.
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