Any movie critic can tell you what a newly released DVD is about & spoil the ending for you. I plan to ruin your entire DVD watching experience by highlighting it's flaws, it's missteps, it's examples of poor editing, casting, and point out the ridiculous holes in the plot. If you're cynical, you'll appreciate this valuable service I'm providing. If you're easily impressed, then don't say I didn't warn you.  - Mean Jean

It's not often that I go see a movie in a theatuh, since I'm so cheap, but the ads for this movie looked so funny I gave my husband, Mean Dean, an ultimatum. Either he goes with me, or I'm going alone. Amazingly, Mean Dean who knows well the cheap proclivities of his wife didn't fall over & die of a heart attack in his shock that I'd suggest such a waste of money as a trip to the town mutiplex.

That was money well spent; it was such a funny movie for most of the length of the film that the rip off ticket price we bent over & grabbed our ankles & forked over didn't even feel that painful. There are reasons this movie is number one in the country right now, go see it (do the matinee thing if you're cheap like me).

I didn't see the original movie from the 60's that this was loosely based on, I don't know if there are any cameos in it by famous people from the first one, I doubt it, and I think I've read that this movie has as much to do with that movie as jello has to do with hippopotamuses, but I don't think it was worded quite like that. The only passing resemblance this has to do with the other deals with what happens when someone of a different race plans to marry daddy's lil' girl. If the dad is Bernie Mac, probably the end result is going to be pretty funny.

That Bernie Mac is hilarious is a given. The nice surprise comes when you realize all the actors in this flick handle their comedy roles extremely well. The roller coaster thrill ride ® starts to lurch a bit at the contrived crisis at the end, then never really regains it's humorous momentum, but fortunately that means only the last 15 minutes or so are lame & forced. This is good for you who have to fight post show theatuh traffic, you can pretty much get up & leave as soon as the crisis scene starts, know it will all work out for a happy, though not very funny ending.

When the DVD comes out, wait till Blockbuster or someone puts it on sale used & buy it then, assuming you watched it in the theater, or rent it to tide you over. That's the Mean Savage family's action plan!