Friday After Next
New Line Cinema | Release Date: November 22, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
10
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Fast and raunchy, Friday After Next surely stands apart from other holiday-themed movies for its gleeful low-down humor and a raft of uninhibited characters involved in one outrageous predicament after another. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
There's nothing sophisticated or inventive about it, but Cube has fun with his characters and first-time director Marcus Raboy drives the film with enough momentum and energy to make the gags flow together almost like a real story. That's enough to carry it through another Friday. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The movie's 85 minutes speed merrily along on a steady stream of outrageous antics, entertaining performances from seasoned pros (like John Witherspoon, as Craig's dyspeptic dad), and unforgettable introductions to new talent. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The trouble with movies like those in the "Friday" series is that their success can lead to a need to inflate their importance, inviting pretentious descriptions like "folkloric" when "Friday" is much closer to chitlin circuit comedy. Read full review
60
Film ThreatTodd Levin
If you can’t laugh at stuff like this, there are still a few days left in the theatrical run of “Santa Clause 2”. I hear the reindeer are horny as hell. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
I guess there's an audience for it, and Ice Cube has paid dues in better and more positive movies ("Barbershop" among them). But surely laughs can be found in something other than this worked-over material. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The third -- and thinnest and weakest and least funny -- installment in Ice Cube's popular Friday series. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
Anyone who pays to see it will certainly feel as if he has been clipped. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there. Read full review
50
Village VoiceEdward Crouse
If "Next Friday" approximated smoking the same old shit, FAN is a manically generous Christmas vaudeville. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKevin Williams
Ultimately, the lazy, cynical underpinnings of Friday After Next are as visible as the film's soundtrack is obnoxious. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's familiar, undemanding and not as bad as it could have been, but you can't help thinking that somewhere else, there's a real party going on. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Director Marcus Raboy hasn't made a bad movie, exactly -- just one that seems to have forgotten its own jokes, much as those who watch it will forget everything about it a week later, stoned or not. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Neither as good as its direct ancestor (Michael Schultz's great 1976 hood masterpiece Car Wash) nor as clever as the original Friday, this is, to put it bluntly, all seeds and stems. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
If you do insist on seeing this film, don't arrive late: the clever, animated opening credits are a stitch, suggesting a sprightliness of touch and winsome wickedness of tone that's missing from the rest of the movie.
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Dumb and Dumber 'n the hood. Read full review
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Lacks the spirit of the previous two, and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderHank Sartin
"Friday" had moments of stoned charm and telling neighborhood detail; this second sequel never gets beyond the angry, cruel, and misogynist. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny (veteran actors John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford seem at best indifferent to the material), Friday After Next is the graceless sodomizing of a cult classic. Read full review
20
VarietyRobert Koehler
Surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pic ever delivered by a Hollywood studio. Read full review
10
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Marginally better than its predecessor, but only because "Next Friday" lowered standards so far that only a homemade cockfighting video would have failed to surpass it. Read full review
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