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the Worst That Could Happen? on DVD</A>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>What's the Worse That Could Happen? </B> * (PG-13)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Reviewed By George O. Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="545"><div> A miraculous intrusion</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Kevin Caffery: Martin Lawrence</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Max Fairbanks: Danny DeVito</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Amber Belhaven: Carmen Ejogo</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Berger: John Leguizamo</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Lutetia Fairbanks: Nora Dunn </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Walter: Richard Schiff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Jack: Bernie Mac</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Detective Alex Tardio: William Fichtner</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Tracy Kimberly: Sascha Knopf</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Gloria: Glenne Headly</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Earl: Larry Miller</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Ann Marie: Ana Gasteyer</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Director: Sam Weisman</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="304" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: Two cunning crooks steal from one another in a major game of one-upsmanship.  As they try to out con each other, their lives spin out of control. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Kevin Caffery (Martin Lawrence) is an artful thief who gets caught in the act by wealthy businessman Max Fairbanks (Danny DeVito). Max is having an affair with Miss September, Tracey Kimberly (Sascha Knopf), when he discovers Kevin in his house; stealing everything from artwork to shoes. Max calls the police and just before they take Kevin away, Max lies and tells the police that Kevin has stolen a diamond ring. The police believe him and make Kevin give the ring to Max. In fact, Amber Belhaven (Carmen Ejogo), Kevin's new love, gave the ring to Kevin as a present for retrieving a painting that she had sold at an auction to pay her hotel bill.</div> <bR> <div> Kevin's partner in crime is Berger (John Leguizamo), who along with his girlfriend, Ann Marie (Ana Gasteyer), help Kevin try to retrieve his ring.  While they're at it, they also steal a lot of hot items that they take to Jack (Bernie Mac), Kevin's uncle. Jack's avocation is managing the bar and grill he owns, and his vocation is being a fence for stolen goods.</div> <bR> <div> Lutetia Fairbanks (Nora Dunn) is Max's wife, who has a nose for his adulterous adventures but never seems to be able to catch him in the act. Max's personal assistant is Gloria (Glenne Headly) who efficiently keeps his calendar on a computer. This provides an opening for Kevin to recruit a hacker who can break into Max's system so they can learn of his whereabouts and planned activities. </div> <bR> <div> The three remaining characters that add a mixture to this comedy are Max's lawyer Walter (Richard Schiff), his bodyguard Earl (Larry Miller) and Detective Alex Tardio (William Fichtner). <I>What's the Worse that Could Happen?</I>  is a loosely woven plot with a considerable amount of stand up comedy. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: If I had any doubt about this film losing its way, that question was answered when Detective Alex came on the scene. There could not be a gay character that is more <I>un</I>funny, when obviously playing for big laughs. It was OK for one scene, but to replay it a few more times caused me to involuntarily go into a state of mental shutdown on this picture. </div> <bR> <div> The answer to the movie title, <I>What's the Worse that Could Happen? </I>is that seeing this film will make a miraculous intrusion into 90 minutes of your life. This is a bad movie that comes very close to being awful. When my movie companion said that it was too long at two hours …I reminded her that it was thirty minutes shy of that. To me it felt longer than the three hours and three minutes of <I><B>Pearl Harbor.</B></I>  My companion apparently shares my view that a bad movie can't be too short. </div> <bR> <div> The preview for this movie was indeed funny, and I was looking forward to seeing something that I thought could be as hilarious as <I><B>The Whole Nine Yards</B></I> or <I><B>Meet the Parents.</B></I> Instead this is closer to DeVito's comedy bomb of last year, <I><B>Drowning Mona.</B></I> </div> <bR> <div> The actors are good and the premise for the film is sound. The scenes don't add up, as this is indeed a movie where the whole is <I>less </I>than the sum of the parts. While the movie does not have to always make sense in the real world, it goes so far that I daydreamed for a moment that it was an animated film. For example, it's OK for Max to run off a pier and make an impossible leap into a speeding boat as it pulls away. It's <I>not </I>OK for the boat to later be 80% underwater and in the next scene return to its full upright position!  That's sloppy filmmaking, and looking at this movie is similar to eating from the pig trough of films. </div> <bR> <div> There are a few little chuckles and one or two belly laughs. For two great funnymen, like Lawrence and DeVito, that's like having a zero batting average after playing 100 baseball games. It's painful spending time seeing movies like this...please go see something else which deserves your time and money.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> PG-13 (sex; language)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Martin Lawrence: <I><B>Big Momma's House</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Danny DeVito: <I><B>Drowning Mona</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="317"><div> Carmen Ejogo: Sally Hemings-An American Scandal-TV</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> John Leguizamo: <I><B>Moulin Rouge</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="317"><div> Larry Miller: <I><B>Best in Show</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Richard Schiff: <I><B>Lucky Numbers</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Bernie Mac: <I><B>The Original Kings of Comedy</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> William Fichtner: <I><B>Pearl Harbor</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="317"><div> Sascha Knopf: Blackmale</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Glenne Headly: <I><B>Timecode</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="317"><div> Nora Dunn: <I><B>Heartbreakers</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Ana Gasteyer: <I><B>What Women Want</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Sam Weisman: The Out of Towners</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="255"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="255" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>