: Bringing Down the House
The previews made this look terrible so I didn’t bother with it in the theatres (even though it was a hit). Turns out it’s not so bad, though it was predictable. The story’s about an older, white, button-down tax lawyer who corresponds with LawyerGirl on the ‘net. When she shows up at his house, she’s a big black girl who’s an ex-con with plenty of attitude, and she turns the man’s life upside-down and shows him what life’s all about. There’s a lot of obvious jokes struggling to be funny, some silly slapstick stuff when the writers couldn’t write anything funny, and the obligatory touching moment when everything works out happily in the end. Fun most of the time, hilarious on a couple occasions, okay the rest.
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