Friday After Next (2002)

25% of critics liked it
(71 reviews)
76% of users liked it
(128,126 ratings)

The gang from Friday and Next Friday are back in this urban comedy, in which Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have finally moved out of their respective parents' homes and gotten an apartment together. However, a bogus neighborhood Santa Claus (Rickey Smiley) decides to help Craig and… More The gang from Friday and Next Friday are back in this urban comedy, in which Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have finally moved out of their respective parents' homes and gotten an apartment together. However, a bogus neighborhood Santa Claus (Rickey Smiley) decides to help Craig and Day-Day share the wealth by robbing their apartment, and when he rips off their stereo, he also makes off with their rent money, which was hidden in the speaker cabinets. Desperate to make rent and have some money for Christmas presents, Craig and Day-Day land jobs at a local strip mall, where their fathers, Mr. Jones (John Witherspoon) and Uncle Elroy (Don "D.C." Curry), have gone into business together running a barbecue joint. Craig and Day-Day are installed as security guards, and while Craig tries to make time with Donna (K.D. Aubert), a saleswoman at the Pimp N' Ho's Boutique, and keep things orderly at Holy Moly's Doughnut Shop, Day-Day attempts to transform himself into a master of crime-fighting, which causes a lot more problems than it solves. Friday After Next is the first feature film from director Marcus Raboy, who previously directed music videos for Sting, Li'l Kim, Staind, and Friday After Next star Ice Cube. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed By: Marcus Raboy
Written By: Ice Cube, D.J. Pooh
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Nov 22, 2002 Wide
On DVD: Mar 25, 2003
Studio: New Line Cinema

Critic Reviews

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
This is a terrible movie, one of the worst comedies of the year.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Frenetic but not really funny.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
You'd have to be applying pretty loose critical standards to describe Friday After Next ... as a good movie, but in the coming weeks it may certainly prove a useful one.
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious.
Gene Seymour, Newsday
Leisurely, waxy potpourri of messy sight gags, coarse sex jokes and all-pro bad behavior.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
A raucous, riotous, blisteringly obscene comedy.
Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Something to offend everyone.
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
It's become abundantly clear that series star/writer/producer Ice Cube hasn't a clue as to why the first Friday became such a beloved cult classic in the first place.
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...more cartoonish than anything else...
Nick Rogers, State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
Perhaps the main problem with Friday After Next is that everything is too manic to be memorable.
Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Will keep die-hard fans occupied until two Fridays from now.
Prairie Miller, Long Island Press
A South Central LA comedy with more of the flavor of Halloween, the film is more about ghetto strife that's just too agitated to, well, pause for Claus.
Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the 'hood, Friday fans were wishing the new sequel was good.
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Never having seen the first two films in the series, I can't compare Friday After Next to them, but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days.

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NOT FUNNY.
Conner R

A holiday themed final installment in the Friday Trilogy. I can't say that it's worse than the second one, in fact it's slightly better. Terry Crews made for an even more deranged villain that would stop at nothing to get his jail bait. It's more of the same comedy… More
A holiday themed final installment in the Friday Trilogy. I can't say that it's worse than the second one, in fact it's slightly better. Terry Crews made for an even more deranged villain that would stop at nothing to get his jail bait. It's more of the same comedy from the first two, so you basically know what you're getting in to.
Derek D

Vulgar and ultra-obscene, but still pretty good for what it is. John Witherspoon is a god.
Khris N

Xmas in the Hood homies!! A santa claus crook, a pimp, and a ex-inmate whoes got the hots for tupac and the pimp! lololololz
Lee K

I loved all the movies in this series and i hope cube makes some more! I would not want to work that strip mall they were working however, for 10 bucks and hour???haha no way!