The Honeymooners is as unnecessary a remake as one might fear, but we've seen plenty of worse TV to film translations
Honeymooners (2005)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:15
Rotten:91
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: This pointless remake of the classic TV series only offers generic characters and gags.
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In THE HONEYMOONERS--an update of the classic 1950s television comedy that starred Jackie Gleason--Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) is a New York City bus driver and irrepressible dreamer... In THE HONEYMOONERS--an update of the classic 1950s television comedy that starred Jackie Gleason--Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) is a New York City bus driver and irrepressible dreamer whose mind constantly whirs with new plans to get rich. But six years after meeting his wife, Alice (Gabrielle Union), none of his schemes have resulted in anything more than clutter in the closet of their Brooklyn apartment. When Alice's dream of buying a home looks like it could become a reality, the Kramdens team up with their best friends who live upstairs, Ed (Mike Epps) and Trixie (Regina Hall), to amass the $20,000 for a down payment before a shady land developer (Eric Stoltz) beats them to it. THE HONEYMOONERS gives a few nods to the original series, like Ed's trademark hat, and a sweet twist on Ralph's signature line: instead of threatening to knock Alice to the moon, he promises to take her there someday. Cedric the Entertainer is an ebullient screen presence, revealing the good heart beneath Ralph's swagger as he struggles to keep from letting Alice down yet again. With its talented cast and zippy script, THE HONEYMOONERS is a comedy anyone can enjoy. [More]
Starring: Mike Epps, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, John Leguizamo
Starring: Mike Epps, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, John Leguizamo, Eric Stoltz, Cedric the Entertainer
Director: John Schultz
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriter: David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Danny Jacobsen, Don Rhymer
Producer: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Eric C. Rhone, Julie Durk
Composer: Richard Gibbs
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Reviews for Honeymooners
feels like watching an hour and a half block of a sitcom – one half hour is really funny, another good for a few laughs and the other the one you could catch in reruns.
They should have just dug up three scripts from the old shows, stapled them together and turned that in for their screenplay. Instead, we're stuck with a shapeless mass.
Is it acceptable if we skipped this particular honeymoon and head right over to the divorce settlement instead?
This isn't the worst movie of the yearit isn't even the worst comedy of the yearbut it may be one of the blandest.
I found the crazy schemes hatched by this new Kramden/Norton duo very funny indeed.
The (remake) honeymoon is over, people; if more movies like this come out, I may ask for a divorce from the whole medium.
John Leguizamo steals the show as its sleazy trainer -- not that there's much to steal from John Schultz's joylessly schematic paycheck.
It doesn't fail because of its concept or casting; it fails because the film is as flat as the paper the script was printed on.
There's plenty of space up there for a colony of mediocre filmmakers. That's right, folks. To the moon. Bang! Zoom!
Blame it all on the Bad Guys, those Hollywood suits who think by committee and never met a focus group they didn't like. This is product, pure and simple.
When a performer as sharp as Cedric the Entertainer is reduced to funny fat-guy shtick, you know you're in the presence of grinding mediocrity.
The lunar destination aims far too high. This misbegotten movie heads straight for the dogs and the sewer, literally so.
Cedric the Entertainer comes close to sharing Gleason's gift for, well, entertaining. He's the biggest reason this version of The Honeymooners is such an amusing surprise.
Cannibalizing old programs has become a reflex action in Tinseltown, and as a result, audience expectations are low. It must be hard to resist the temptation to live down to them.
Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden was a powder keg. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph Kramden is a cream puff.
Remaking The Honeymooners is as lame-brain an idea as any scheme cooked up by Ralph Kramden.
Could Cedric have pulled it off with a better script? We'll never know, because there will not be a sequel.
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