Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

The pleasingly contrasting comic styles of Queen Latifah and Steve Martin bring some energy to Bringing Down the House, a hopelessly formulaic comedy. Martin plays Peter, an uptight lawyer too obsessed with work to spend quality time with his kids. Into his life comes Queen Latifah as Charlene, an escaped convict who threatens to wreck his relationship with a wealthy but arch-conservative client (Joan Plowright, in high dudgeon) if Peter won't take up her case. Of course, Latifah's exuberant ways enchant his kids and bring out a looser, livelier side of Peter, all in a series of scenes so standard they hardly register. Thank goodness for Eugene Levy; as one of Peter's law partners with a taste for Charlene's bodacious brand of sexy, Levy's ingenious transformation from nebbish to loverman is the movie's secret weapon, stealthily planting comic explosions amidst the modest rice-krispie-crackle of the stale plot. --Bret Fetzer

Genre: Comedy
Stars: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  4 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
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PG-13
Year:
2003
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Georgey Sanderson:
Dad, what's a rack?

Peter Sanderson:
It's a country.

Howie Rottman:
I'd like to dip you in Cheez Wiz and spread you all over a Ritz cracker, if I'm not being too subtle.

Charlene Morton:
Boy, you some kinda freaky!

Howie Rottman:
Oh, you have no idea. You got me straight trippin', boo!

Mrs. Kline:
We have to brush your hair differently. You look like a fag.

Peter Sanderson:
You are such an ass...

Peter Sanderson:
... set to this company.

Peter Sanderson:
I message for you. Howie says, 'The cool points out the window and you got him all twisted up in the game.'

Charlene Morton:
That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.

Charlene Morton:
I kicked it off the heezy and bounced... fo' real, tho!

Peter Sanderson:
What did you just say?

Mrs. Kline:
Mr. Sanderson! Is everything okay? I thought I heard Negro!

Peter Sanderson:
Ashley! Who are you doing here?

Peter Sanderson:
Charlene, what is this particular taste? It's familiar, yet... what is it, some sort of an herb, like sage?

Charlene Morton:
Naw... it's more like a milk of mint.

Peter Sanderson:
Well, whatever it is, the taste is explosive!

Charlene Morton:
Well, good then! Enjoy!

Mrs. Arness:
I do believe I'm stoned.

Peter Sanderson:
Sarah is going places!

Charlene Morton:
Oh, she's going places alright.

Aaron:
Hey, hey, hey. Watch the seats. No, I'm serious. It's leather.

Charlene Morton:
Pretend I'm your wife. Talk dirty to me.

Peter Sanderson:
Um, okay... I wanna kiss you A LOT!

Charlene Morton:
No no no! Dirtier...

Peter Sanderson:
I wanna give you - an aromatherapy massage!

Charlene Morton:
Try harder!

Peter Sanderson:
I wanna have SEXUAL INTERCOURSE with...

Charlene Morton:
I give up!

Mrs. Arness:
Pussies

Mrs. Kline:
Those latin people that were skulking around here earlier...

Peter Sanderson:
Oh, they were looking at that house down the street.

Mrs. Kline:
Casing it?

Peter Sanderson:
No, no, they were looking to buy.

Mrs. Kline:
Oh, please. If those people are on this block and not holding a leaf blower...

Peter Sanderson:
We'll talk more about this later, Mrs. Kline!

Ashley:
Compliments of Tae-Bo: 2 hours a day 5 days a week

Charlene Morton:
Compliments of the hood: 24 hours a day all my life!

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