Friday (1995)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

In my opinion "Friday" was one of the funniest movies ever made, Easily one of Ice Cubes best movies. The movie is about a drug dealer (Smokey) that owes his supplier (Big Worm) $200 and drags his unemployed best friend (Craig) into the mix, but the two are impeded by distractions while trying to gather the $200. The movie is where some popular phrases came about, one example being "bye Felicia". It was a great movie and deserved all of the praise it got.

This movie has a long list of great talent, but it is both underused and overused in this movie.I am a huge fan of black comedy, my favorite comedians growing up were Red Fox, Nipsy Russel, Flip Wilson...then came one of the greatest, "Richard Pryor"...then followed on by the two greats Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock and many second tier excellent black comedians.I had High hopes for this movie and the subsequent following movies, but I was left unimpressed.The movie was slow, dull and the over the top attempts at comedy came off almost lampooning themselves.There were some great portrayals of how many black people actually live and behave, but this is stuff that is not funny and certainly doesn't do anything to hep the perception of black people as a culture. Not that this movie was supposed to do that, but it certainly solidifies stereotypes of black people.Black people...or anyone actually, should watch this movie just to know to do the opposite in their lives.A shame because I wanted to love this movie, but now we are taking the rest of the franchise movies off of our list to watch. Its just not that good.

When someone asks me the question, "what is a great movie to watch", I tell them the movie "Friday". This urban comedy film is rated R and or for mature audiences. This comedy movie has all the life experiences of some of the same things young African American males go through even today. Chris tucker plays "Smokey" and Ice Cube plays "Craig". Smokey has a terrible smoking habit and it eventually gets him into a lot of trouble and he puts Craig into the situation. They both have to come up with 200 dollars or both will get killed because Smokey smoked up all the weed instead of selling it. Also that day Craig gets fired from his job on his day off for stealing boxes, I mean who gets fired on their day off! When Craig has to confront the neighborhood bully "D-Bo". D-Bo had twice the size and strength as everyone else and had also been in and out of prison. Craig has to make a good judgment to either fight him with his fist or pull out a gun. With help from his dad he is convinced to fight him with his bare hands. This shows a great reflection on today's society because we are so quick to pick up a gun and shoot someone. In the old days this was unheard of and they put their hands up and fought like grown men, not some coward to take someone's son, uncle, dad, and brother through the use of fire arms. Another life lesson you can get out of this movie is that if you really love someone or have feelings for someone you need to fight for them, don't let anything or anyone keep you from getting what's yours. If you are in need of great comedy movie one night, I highly suggest of watching the movie "Friday"

Man I wish I could have been on set when they made the Friday franchise. This was one of the funniest movies of all time. The cast was outrageously funny from beginning to the end. This movie was followed by two more Fridays that was epic as well. I'm praying that Ice cube and company put together one more including Smokey and all the other comedians. Ice Cube put together three outstanding cast. and I also love the way he gave new upcoming comedians and chance to show what they can do in front of the camera. But if i had to choose which Friday was the funnest I think I would have to go with the original just because of Smokeys character But I would love to see Smokey and Dada together.