I was prompted to write this review having just seen it uncut for the first time. Watch this movie please, and if you've seen it watch it again. Lee Ermey as the racist bad guy was genius too. I've been repeating Bernie Mac's lines and the 'cornbread' scene for years. The rest of the cast is as underappreciated as this movie is in general.
Their love-hate 'old married couple' bickering will leave you in stitches. They don't do that so much here, but these guys age from mid-20s to 90s convincingly.
Murphy with the Nutty Professor characters, demonstrates serious acting ability while creating laughs. While on the surface, Claude and Ray are sentenced to life in prison for a crime they didn't commit, the real story here is about life-the ups and downs, the choices you make, and the friends you sometimes can't stand but ultimately depend upon along the way.īoth Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence became known for, along with being very funny, the characters they create. It certainly is no serious take on a subject that would be all-too serious elsewhere, but the double entendre of the title belies the reason, besides all the talent present, why this film works so well. If you go to the movies to be entertained, it doesn't get much better than this.
