Film Reviews

The Honeymooners

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• Director: John Schultz
• Starring: Cedric the Entertainer
• Details: US / 90 mins (PG).

Someone needs to tell Cedric the Entertainer - and fast - that his name is writing cheques his talent can't cash. New York bus driver Ralph (Cedric) is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes that invariably fall through, with his buddy Norton (Epps) on hand to aid and abet. Things go sour when Ralph loses the money he and his wife Alice (Union) have saved for a new duplex in Brooklyn, and so Ralph must come up with the quickest get-rich-quick scheme of them all. A four-pack popcorn movie - one to eat, three to throw at the screen - The Honeymooners is the latest in the increasingly tiresome line of remakes Hollywood insists on shovelling into the Multiplexes. Interestingly - or not as the case may be, but you have you find your own way to amuse yourself at times such as these - The Flintstones was conceived of as a cartoon remake of the original Honeymooners, with Fred and Barney taking the place of Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. Now imagine sitting through an hour and a half episode of The Flintstones in which Fred forgets to humiliate Barney. Yep, it's that bad.

Review by Declan Burke