1997, 93 min
A.K.A.: Def Jam's How to Be a Player
Country: US
Studio: USA Home Entertainment
Cast: Bill Bellamy, Natalie Desselle, Lark Voorhies
Director: Lionel C. Martin
Our Rating:
How to Be a Player
1997, 93 min A.K.A.: Def Jam's How to Be a Player Country: US Studio: USA Home Entertainment Cast: Bill Bellamy, Natalie Desselle, Lark Voorhies Director: Lionel C. Martin Our Rating:
REVIEW
Anyone who finds minstrel show buffoonery preferable to actual written and staged comedy may enjoy what is yet another treacly entry to the "men are pigs" school of comedy. Bellamy is a "player" whose only objective in life seems to be to make "booty calls" to as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend (Voorhies). Enter Bellamy's sister (Desselle) who decides to teach him a lesson by inviting all his women to the same party and waiting for the big blowup. Offensive both in its lack of humor and in its assertion that serial infidelity can be both fun and funny (he gets away with it), this is nothing more than another example of Hollywood throwing a bone to the black community by ridiculing it. You Might Also Like
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