"The Honeymooners" movie was not bad. Not great, mind you, but for a quasi-low budget comedy, I actually liked it. I say "actually" because I've been reading these horrific reviews of the movie, and I thought based on these reviews that I would hate it. I wouldn't say I always agree with the mainstream, but usually when people say a movie is great (like "The Shawshank Redemption" or "Citizen Kane"), I agree in spite of what everyone says. When a movie is flat out terrible ("Date Movie", "Epic Movie", and "Meet The Spartans" come particularly to mind), ditto. This movie, however, I liked, and I'm sticking to my stance.Yes, the movie was based on the classic TV show that is still regarded as one of the best sitcoms of all time (despite the fact that contrary to popular belief, it only ran for one season). What I liked best about this movie was the fact that it didn't try to imitate the TV show. By that I mean that the actors in the story didn't try to duplicate the words and actions of the original TV show cast, nor did they attempt to make this into a 90-minute movie seem contrived. In fact, I thought the plot of a struggling bus driver and his sewer working pal trying to make a better life for themselves was a good story to tell. With this good plot, a natural scenario progressed and the jokes came easier.Cedric The Entertainer is usually hit or miss in movies, but he was good here as Ralph Cramden. Again, as previously noted, he didn't do a Jackie Gleason impression, and wisely so. He already fits that persona as a quick-thinking, short tempered guy, or at least doesn't have to work that hard at it. That's why I thought both his performance and that of Mike Epps, as Ed Norton, were both natural and funny.Anyone looking for realistic scenarios in this story are going to be sorely disappointed, which is perhaps why this film didn't get many good reviews (although I know of some by major film critics, including Roger Ebert). It's unlikely that someone as supermodel gorgeous as Gabrielle Union would be married to a slightly-unintelligent, not so great looking guy as Cedric The Entertainer, and her character seems way too smart to be just a waitress in a local diner. Plus, why someone would leave a perfectly good, uninjured greyhound in a dumpster for Ralph Cramden and Ed Norton to find still seems a bit strange to me. Remove those few plot inconsistencies, and you still have a genuinely good story.So again, this movie is not the best movie out there, but it's a lot better than many other movies based on TV shows. Case in point: the terrible excuses of movies that were "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1993), "McHale's Navy" (1997), and "Sgt. Bilko" (1996, from "The Phil Silvers Show"). Also, being a movie with a predominantly African-American cast (at least with the main characters), this movie was far better than movies with low-brow comedy and poor taste. One such movie that comes to mind is "Soul Plane", which was so blatantly offensive with its blending together of every bad black stereotype. This movie didn't stoop that low, and I give it a marginal recommendation because I enjoyed it overall. It really made me laugh, and that's what it was intended to do.

Cedric the Entertainer may be a cool guy to meet up with, but starring in a below average comedy film is simply ridiculous. I may be far from the era of "The Honeymooners", but to put it this way, this movie insults that good, genuine sitcom in every single way. This wasn't even a mediocre film, it's a piece of crap that just somehow made it into movie theaters all across America.I could blab about everything that was bad in this film, but taking the same name of a classic sitcom and making it into a "modernized" garbage flick is insulting. This is just an example of how Hollywood has made countless remakes and rehashes of older material in the past few years by making them worse. There is no talent to be found here, and none of the actors are something to get all excited about. Another problem was that the cast was all black. I am not being racist, but during "The Honeymooners" era, there were hardly any black people who were in show business, and this cast is nothing compared to the old cast.The least Hollywood could of done was make it into a "Pleasantville" type setting. Even though it's nowhere near a favorite movie of mine, it depicted the same era that "The Honeymooners" was cast in and it revealed a whole new experience of what it was like to live in that time. But, this movie was nothing special, nothing original, and nothing exciting. Just a rehash that Hollywood made up because they are too greedy to convince themselves to think of something new.Consider yourself warned if you happen to see this. Don't even watch this for Cedric. Put this into your trash bin and watch the classics instead.1 out of 10.

I will not understand Hollywoods obsession with making over old TV shows geared towards younger people. I don't want to sound like my grandfather, but why not just make a movie about two people with get rich quick schemes? Why do they feel the need to sully the classic that is the Honeymooners when almost every kid in America who saw this movie had no idea it was a remake of a good TV show. It was almost like when Gus Van Sant decided to redo Psycho. I went to see it in the theater because I was such a fan of the original. And half the kids in the audience thought they had come to see a slasher movie. They had no idea of its origin and that bothers me. Just like they are going to 'update' Have Gun Will Travel. A movie based on the 50's TV series with Eminem in the lead. Are these people kidding me?!

YEAH! "The Honeymooners," baby! A classic show gets an extreme makeover for the new millennium! It's nice to see that a black cast finally has a go at this movie based on, of course, that classic CBS show with the same title! You know, I heard a previous poster suggest that a theatrical remake of "The Honeymooners" would have been better if Josh had played a role. I mean, both ideas are great! Now, let's see the same things happen to other classic shows, like "I Love Lucy" and "The Brady Bunch!" "The Honeymooners" is one movie that should never be missed! It has all the laughs, all the smiles, all the fun...everything America likes in its cinema!