Cedric the Entertainer is a funny man, but he isn't Jackie Gleason, and anyone who isn't Jackie Gleason has no business playing Ralph Kramden.
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
Maybe my memory is a little hazy, but I fail to remember any booger jokes or gas siphoning gags in the Gleeson creation
...don't expect any spousal abuse in the mushy, pedestrian and totally unnecessary big-screen version of The Honeymooners.
A big-thinking schemer and dreamer like Ralph Kramden was amusing in the quaint days of 1955. In 2005, he comes off like a moron.
Cedric and Epps have none of the team chemistry Gleason shared with Art Carney, and Epps' Norton displays none of Carney's eccentricities.
It's not a complete travesty. At the same time, it's nothing at all special.
The movie falls into a quickly boring pattern: Ralph does something boneheaded. Ed says something stupid and falls down. Alice becomes exasperated with Ralph. Repeat.
It's as if whenever The Honeymooners comes close to delivering on a funny idea, the movie runs screaming in the opposite direction.
A tasteless comedy rife with bad slapstick, dull humor and a host of unpleasant characters.
The real question is whether we like these people. To my surprise, the answer is yes.
A surprise and a delight, a movie that escapes the fate of weary TV retreads and creates characters that remember the originals, yes, but also stand on their own.
Though the patterns are there, the laughs aren't, mostly because the writing is so lazy and formulaic.
This laughless attempt to modernize the Kramdens and Nortons is somewhat akin to sacrilege, as it waters down the characters and strips them of their unforgettable quirks and tics.
Not only an insult to the original, it should be shown at film schools as proof of how pointless a movie can be.
Pratfalls into the pit between reinvention and homage, then wallows there in a muck of trite situations and half-baked characterizations.
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