A string of hugely unfunny shenanigans ensue.
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07/21/09
B.A.P.S. (1997)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:4
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3/10
Synopsis: Two southern-fried, gold-digging Georgia peaches (also known as "Black American Princesses") hit Hollywood to audition for a music video to raise cash. But they really hit the jackpot when the... [More]
Starring: Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle, Martin Landau, Robert Townsend
Director: Robert Townsend
Reviews for B.A.P.S.
Top Critict's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.
07/21/09
Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.
04/26/06
You can see how the black, modern-day Pygmalion-type story could work, just, but not with this heap of cabbage leaves for a script, and not with such desperately goofy acting from Berry and Desselle.
01/26/06
Top CriticThe story offers nothing original.
04/09/05
No review available.
04/07/04
No review available.
03/23/04
No review available.
11/19/03
Not a great example of Halle Berry's talent.
06/24/03
No review available.
06/05/03
Apallingly bad. Robert Townsend's attempt at satirizing black culture is far off the mark.
11/27/02
No review available.
08/23/02
No review available.
08/14/02
Bad, amateur, poor and silly.
06/05/02
It's bad, real bad, with frequently excruciating dialogue, often bewildering storytelling and a denouement actually drowned out by incidental music, that makes for a painful and staggeringly inept movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticLandau does the best he can with his limitations.
01/01/00
Badly timed sight gags, weak one-liners, incessant music videos and sloppy sentiment are the order of the day. The stars throw themselves into it, but to no avail.
01/01/00
They both do good work, but it's Desselle who steals the film and grabs the major laughs.
01/01/00
A very funny movie.
01/01/00
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