The Best Man
Holiday was very funny—I really laughed hard while watching this movie.
There were just some scenes and lines that caught me off guard. And the way the
movie ended felt like Malcolm D. Lee was leaving room in case another movie
about these four best friends and the women in their lives should be written.
There’s a place they could pick it up from.
To add to this,
I think the plot was really bad. The comedy worked for me and I laughed hard,
but the main storyline was like something off a soap opera.
The movie is set
during Christmas time and is a comedy-drama, directed and written by Malcolm D.
Lee, who also directed and wrote The Best Man (1999). This serves as
a sequel to that movie. In this holiday get-together, we get to see how their
lives have turned out after the weird events of Lance and Mia’s wedding in the
first movie.
The producers
went all out to get Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Morris
Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Melissa De Sousa, and Regina
Hall all to come back, reprising their roles from the 1999 film.
The whole crew
came together, acknowledging Mia’s invitation for a get-together, but not all
the wounds had healed over their time apart. Lance still held a grudge against
Harper for sleeping with his wife (although this happened long before they got
married in the first film). Julian married the stripper Candace, whom he fell
in love with in the first movie. Harper and Robin are expecting their first
child, and Quentin is still single but a lot weirder than he was in the first
movie.
The movie’s
tragic tone at the end had some light shed on it with a birth—something I kind
of liked, even though it’s not new. I know I’ve seen it in a movie somewhere.
The movie went
on to be a commercial hit, and because of that, I heard that Universal Pictures
and Malcolm D. Lee are in talks for a third installment. I think they should
quit while they’re ahead.
Should you see this movie? Well, maybe, it’s funny, but the emotional line it tried pulling did not work for me. The plot isn’t airtight, though, and the screenplay was at times just dull or irritating. Imagine, someone thought it was a good idea to add some singing into the movie. I felt all the singing parts were just crap and unnecessary.
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