"Juwanna Mann" Starring Miguel A. Nunez, Vivica A. Fox and Kevin Pollack
Directed by Jesse Vaughan
Juwanna Bland
By Michele Dillon
The idea of this movie is something we have all seen or at least heard of before. It first started with Shakespeare and his story Twelfth Night and since has been integrated into movies such as this and She's the Man (a more direct version of the story). The premise is that Jamal Jeffries cannot play in the men's league of basketball for his crude behaivor and stuck up attitude so he gets the idea to dress up as a woman and play for the woman's league. During his time as a "woman" he discovers himself and realizes that he has had a super ego that he doesn't need to have. He starts to have a better career as a woman then he ever did as a man, but of course he gets discovered and the plot goes from there. The story itself wasn't such a bad idea, I myself am a fan of She's the Man even though I do get made fun of for it (ahem-by my sister-ahem). It was the acting that affected me in this movie. I dont believe I have ever seen Miguel Nunez in anything before this and I am so glad that I haven't. His high pitched voice reminded me of Chris Rock but not as funny and not as endearing. Usually when I watch a movie that shows how a person with a huge ego can turn around and become a better person I like the feel good touch it has. In this movie, however, it didn't touch me at all. I was mostly annoyed by Nunez's characters Jamal and Juwanna because they were both obnoxious and it seemed that it only took him one day to learn his lesson wheras if he truly had that big of an ego it would probably take him 1 year, if not more. The whole movie just dragged on and on as if it was never going to end and even though it wasn't the worst one I have watched out of all of these movies so far, it barely left me with any thoughts on it. I finished watching it with absolutely nothing interesting I wanted to say on it because it gave me no really bad emotion and no really good emotion. I sucked it up for the honor of this blog of course and found something to say, which ended up being negative so I guess that is what I thought of this movie.
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