A strange combination of urban melodrama and comedy concert film.
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08/03/09
Foolish (1999)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:0
Rotten:14
Average Rating:3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Eddie Griffin is Miles "Foolish" Waise, a fast rising nightclub comedian. His life is made difficult by his manager, who wants him to sell out for big bucks, and his brother Quentin "Fifty Dollah"... [More]
Starring: Eddie Griffin, Master P, Frank Sivero, Daphnee Duplaix
Director: Dave Meyers
Reviews for Foolish
1 - 14 (sorted by comments; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe film loses complete credibility when the audiences at the comedy clubs where Foolish works go wild with delight, way out of proportion to the hilarity of the material. And Foolish is just a little too smug about his artistic integrity.
01/01/00
Top CriticBalancing comedy with drama is tough for the best writers and even tougher for newcomers.
01/01/00
Pretty much a bad excuse to work in stand-up material courtesy of Griffin, scenes with Andrew Dice Clay, and buxom, naked chicks.
04/10/01
No review available.
09/07/05
What would inspire someone who cannot write or act to pen and star in a movie?
01/01/00
The whole thing has an off-puttingly thrown-together air.
01/01/00
Eddie Griffin buffs have the best reason to check out this amateurish effort: Griffin's profane, sometimes sharply observed stand-up routines take up a big chunk of the movie's total running time.
08/03/09
Griffin’s few sparks onstage are not worth the wait.
08/07/08
Simpleminded melodrama about two brothers' conflicting struggles to better their lives. Oops, not only did I describe the story, I just gave the entire story away. Sorry.
01/20/07
No review available.
07/31/02
It's probably more reasonable to evaluate it as an Eddie Griffin concert film.
01/01/00
The miserable production values—the cardboard sets rival a Little Rascals talent show—and P's stone-faced delivery are merely amateurish, but as a vanity project for Griffin, Foolish is downright appalling.
08/03/09
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