Release Date: Jun 6, 2000 Region: 1 Runtime: 98 mins Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles: English Packaging: Snap Case Rating: R Features:
"Reel-Time" Storyboards -- Watch The Movie With Storyboards Feature-Length Audio Commentary Behind-the-Scenes Featurette Alternate Ending Blooper Reel Mike Epps Audition Tape Music Videos Interactive Menus Original Theatrical Trailers
DVD-ROM Features: "Script-to-Screen" with Storyboards -- Read the Screenplay and View the Storyboards While Watching the Scene in the Film Original Theatrical Web Site on the DVD…And More!!!
Written by and starring Ice Cube, this sequel to his 1995 smash Friday is an engaging farce that plays on the ludicrous charm of the original. It's Next Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) has to pay the consequences for despatching Debo, the neighbourhood bully, to jail at the close of the first film. Hearing a rumour that Debo is to break out of the pen, Craig's father decides it would be safer if he holed up at his cousin Day-Day's house in the 'burbs. But as Craig finds out, this is one suburb that is filled with as much drama as the ghetto. Craig's Uncle Elroy is a layabout lottery winner with a sexually voracious young wife who has designs on her nephew. Day-day (Mike Epps) is being stalked for child support by a pregnant former girlfriend and lives in fear of his boss Pinky, a former pimp who runs a record store. His neighbours, a trio of pumped-up Chicano gangsters, are out for his blood after Craig is caught flirting with their sister Karla, and to top everything, Elroy's house is due to be repossessed in 24 hours due to tax violation. The ensuing hilarity centres around Craig's attempts to raise the necessary funds by fair means or foul. Much to Ice Cube's credit, this silly and scabrous comedy is laugh-out-loud funny without lapsing into American Pie-style frat-boy humour.
On the DVD: The main feature is presented in 16:9 anamorphic format in an immaculate print with the choice of either Dolby Digital 2.0 or 5.1 sound and optional English subtitles. Among the special features is an alternate ending which features several small dialogue changes and a re-appearance by Cube's love interest Karla that provides a more satisfying conclusion than the actual ending to the film, which has been left intentionally open for a possible sequel, Friday After Next. Music videos by Ice Cube ("You Can Do It") and Lil' Zane ("Money Stretch") seem to have been included as an incentive to buy the all-star rap soundtrack. Additional features include a theatrical trailer and cast and crew filmographies. The "making-of" featurette advertised on the sleeve does not app ear anywhere on the disc. --Chris Campion
Release Date: Sep 25, 2000 Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1
Video:
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Subtitles: English Features:
Theatrical Trailer Music Videos Making Of Behind The Scenes Alternative Ending Cast And Crew
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