The Honeymooners (Full Screen Special Collector's Edition) |  | Director: John Schultz
Actors: Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Eric Stoltz
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 20399
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD341464D
UPC: 097363414643
EAN: 0097363414643
ASIN: B000B8I9Y0
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 2005
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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Cedric the Entertainer transforms Jackie Gleason's classic blue-collar sitcom The Honeymooners into an urban comedy. New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric, Barbershop) lives in volatile bliss with his wife Alice (Gabrielle Union, Bring It On). His best friend Ed Norton (Mike Epps, Next Friday) and his wife Trixie (Regina Hall, Scary Movie) live upstairs in a cramped, dingy apartment building. Ralph and Ed get into constant trouble due to their brainless get-rich-quick schemes, including buying a Pullman train car and trying to race an abandoned greyhound--schemes which only serve to lose the money they need to buy a charming duplex on a tree-lined street. Unfortunately, there's a sleazy real-estate agent (Eric Stoltz, Pulp Fiction) who's wooing the little old lady who owns the property, so it's a race to see if Ralph and Ed can raise the money before the bill of sale gets signed. It's a shame that so many cliches had to die so that their hollow, lifeless corpses could be put on display in this formulaic excuse for a movie. Also featuring John Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge), who rattles off a string of one-liners that almost become funny through sheer velocity. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
WORKING CLASS BUS DRIVER RALPH KRAMDEN IS ALWAYS COMING UP WITH GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEMES FOR HIM & HIS BEST FRIEND, ED NORTON,WHO'S ALWAYS AROUND TO HELP HIM GET IN (AND OUT OF) TROUBLE.
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 The Honeymooners (Full Screen Special Collector's Edition) January 22, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough money for a down payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again. The movie itself is quite entertaining and Cedric, Mike Epps, and John Leguizamo gave very funny and likable performances. This movie accomplishes everything a good comedy should- genuine performances, good casting, fun and comical storyline, and a slew of good jokes. This is not a bad movie, its just a bad remake for a show that really didn't need to be remade. Overall,its a good time and I don't regret seeing it. Just don't expect The Honeymooners, because it's not.
 Not even close to the original! October 29, 2009
Lucy (Florida)
I have to say that this movie was really disappointing to watch. I saw the sketch of it and was hoping it would be funny. WRONG! When I went to watch it, it was so boring and WASN'T really that funny. I feel like now I wasted my money on this! The movie didn't stay true to the original as it should be...instead they turn it into this ghetto version. The Diary of A Mad Black Woman was much more interesting and funnier than this movie. Especially Madea...hee hee. :( And Ralph didn't even say his famous line "One of these days, Alice....POW!". I was looking so forward for him to say that but he didn't. The only famous line he said was "Baby, you're the greatest". And the movie seem pretty stupid. I don't really recommend it others to watch it. I should have watched another movie. Maybe Madagascar would be more funnier.
It Captures the Spirit April 13, 2009
A Reader
Like many people, I am an aficionado of the classic TV series. Since most remakes or "tribute" films of venerable television shows are not successful and because this movie received such poor reviews, I did not see it until recently. The poor reviews are not justified. This film captures the essence and spirit of the immortal show and does so with its overall theme of working class people trying, usually unsuccessfully, to "make it". The references and insertion of scenes and dialogue evocative of the classic are well done and very well placed in the script. This cast studied the original and got it right. This film is a rarity - one worthy of the classic it emulates. Perhaps you had to be there at the time the original was made to know how well this film works.
Why? The Original Show Was Bad Enough! January 5, 2009
CJS (Southeast, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm finally catching a glimpse of this movie on network cable TV, as it's not something I would have seen at the theater or bought on DVD. All I can say is "Why?" I thought the original, black and white, fifties version of the show sucked, and even my favorite actors can't redeem it in a movie version. The original show was horrible then; this movie is horrible now. Why Ced and Mike Epps and Gabby didn't try and put their immense good looks and talent into another vehicle I'll never know. But oh well, at least we have two of the three in "Cadillac Records" and two out of three ain't bad.
By the way--I can agree with the reviewers who said that maybe the color lines shouldn't have been crossed. If white actors showed up in a big screen remake of "Good Times" or "Martin" or "Amos n Andy" or "What's Happening" I'd be UP IN ARMS and protesting the studio!
Dreadful! December 3, 2008
Adam S. Lorber (Massapequa, NY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was dreadful. What a slap to the face to the Classic. Almost worse than the Bush Administration over the last 8 years.
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