It seems engineered to give you that initial rush of satisfaction, but leaves you in a dead zone where the only thing you want is more of the same.
You could go nuts with the double entendres associated with One for the Money, beginning, of course, with the film’s title.
Visually, morally, Precious is whack, but praise Mo’Nique’s performance (“Fuck a stipend!”) and Gabourey Sidibe’s superior one.
Throughout, you get a sense that Precious isn’t living out a recognizably human tragedy, but a condescending drama queen’s notion of one.
The film’s vibrant animation and innocuously rollicking comedy remains endearing.
Who’s Your Caddy? is a fiasco that never met a crass stereotype it didn’t milk for lowest-common-denominator laughs.
The film reconfigures Stanley Kramer’s creaky race-relations drama Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as a farcical comedy.