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Reader Reviews: "Honey"
Posted: Friday Dec. 5, 2003 8:00pm (Au-EST)
Author: Garth Franklin
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Another end of the week, another batch of early reviews today with looks at the Jessica Alba hip-hop dancer movie opening against a certain Tom Cruise warrior movies. Which did the critics prefer? This should help give you an idea:

"By the time Honey prematurely ended (the projector broke fifteen minutes before the finale, which was one of the happiest moments of my life), I began wondering if Ashton Kutcher was going to run out and reveal to a squeamish Jessica Alba that the entire film was the biggest prank in the history of MTV's Punk'd..." (full review)

"Honey is a feel good film that is full of clichés, especially the music montage as the group tries to put on a show to raise money for the center. It's harmless, non-offensive, even fun at times, but you can see plenty of movies that are much better this weekend..." (full review)

""Honey" wants to motivate, but it's clueless on how to tell a simple story. A director with a little more experience with actors and actual scripted scenes should've been the major concern for the production, not wetting down Jessica Alba..." (full review)

"Impressionable young girls will probably like Honey, with its heart-of-gold heroine being a positive role model. The target audience can overlook the fact that the story of Honey Daniels has been told countless times before in better movies. The rest of us will just be waiting for the impressive Jessica Alba to find a decent script..." (full review)

"The most entertaining part of the film was trying to count how many times the boom mic kept appearing in the scenes from about the middle point through to the end. Every time you see the microphone, TAKE A DRINK! By the end of the film, you'll be so buzzed that you'll want to get in the aisles and dance..." (full review)
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