Next Friday
New Line Cinema | Release Date: January 12, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
6
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Hilarious. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
A slaphappy, slapdash type of affair familiar to fans of Cheech & Chong and Pauly Shore. It's your basic object lesson in why marijuana is called dope. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldPhoebe Flowers
One of the freshest, nastiest comedies to come around in quite some time. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
An extremely funny movie, and this is coming from someone who barely cracked a smile during ``Friday,'' the first installment of this franchise. Read full review
70
Film.comTom Keogh
Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Nothing miraculous, but it's time pretty well spent. Read full review
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
The punch line isn't that funny. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Sporadically funny... occasionally very funny. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe Leydon
A few good laughs but few surprises in Next Friday, an amiably unfocused sequel. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverAndy Klein
All the new plot stuff is way old hat, as though straight from a textbook chapter called "Conflict Drives Your Narrative!" And at times the motivations are either unclear or senseless. Read full review
40
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge. Read full review
38
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
But most of the humor is about as fresh as the air left behind whenever Witherspoon uses a toilet. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMonica Eng
Almost comes as a breath of fresh air. Too bad it's so foul. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
It took four years to come up with this? Someone needed that long to assemble this patchy, recycled collection of gags about stinky butts, superfreaks, finger-wide blunts and racial cliches? Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The action is mostly witless and predictable. One measure of its desperation and lack of respect for its audience is the frequency with which it labors to wring humor from flatulence and excrement gags. Read full review
38
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one. Read full review
30
Village VoiceGary Dauphin
A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
There is plenty of nasty patter and aimless jokes about hard-core sex, soft-core drugs, dog feces and flatulence to keep you occupied while you wait, in vain, for any reason to laugh out loud. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSarah Hepola
A story disappointingly similar to the original. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
After enduring 30 minutes of awful slapstick, shit jokes, gags revolving around used condoms, cholo caricatures, and women who are all psychos, sluts or Latina fuck-dolls, I walked. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
If John Witherspoon is among the funniest men in America, as many of his fellow comics say, why is he so painful to watch here? Read full review
25
New York PostJonathan Foreman
The whole movie is so ineptly written and directed that its 90 minutes seem to take twice as long. Read full review
20
TNT RoughCutSarah Raskin
One-beat humor that is worsened by poor writing and editing. Read full review
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