“Johnson Family Vacation” Starring Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey and Vanessa Williams
Directed by Christopher Erskin
Johnson Family Lamecation
By Michele Dillon
What good could come out of making a movie about two brothers who spend their time trying to win the Family of the Year award at their annual family reunion? That is about the lamest plot I have ever heard of. ¾ of the movie is spent on the road trip over to the reunion and the other ¼ of it is spent with Cedric and Harvey, playing brothers, fighting about who is better. I don’t know if I get these kinds of movies. It seems like there are some people out there who would think that this is funny but I was highly NOT entertained by “The Entertainer”.
Of course, Cedric also had to pull a, what I like to call, “Eddie Murphy” (it is where you play more than one part in the movie but you dress up in fat suits or change the look of your face). The “Eddie Murphy” is not exactly a good tactic, sure it worked in Bowfinger, but other than that, every movie he has made where he has played more than one character has failed. Why do these actors put themselves through this kind of misery? Or maybe it is really fun for them so they do not see how horrible it is until it is too late and the repercussions that is this movie is staring them right in the face. Who knows why they feel the need to torture me…
So anyway, usually you can tell how much I hated the movie by either the review being really short because I have nothing to really say about it, or it is super long because of all the bad stuff I have to say about it. It is only really safe to assume that if it is a medium review then I must like it, but there is always the possibility that I don’t like it as well. So really, there is no correlation between the length of my reviews and whether or not I like them, why did you even bring it up?
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