SummaryKamal (Sinqua Walls) is a once a promising player who derailed his future in the sport. Jeremy (Jack Harlow) is former star of the game whose injuries stalled his own career. Juggling tenuous relationships, financial pressures and serious internal struggles, the two ballers—opposites who are seemingly miles apart—find they might have more in com... Read More
Directed By:Calmatic
Written By:Kenya Barris, Doug Hall, Ron Shelton
White Men Can't Jump
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May 18, 2023
63
White Men Can’t Jump 2023 is the second remake for director Calmatic this year, following the disastrous “House Party” from last January, and while it’s not as clumsy or weirdly tone-deaf as that bomb, the screenplay by Kenya Barris (“black-ish”) and Doug Hall misses a couple of major opportunities, including the decision to have the most dramatic development of the entire movie take place offscreen.
May 19, 2023
55
At its best this White Men Can’t Jump conveys the fragility of hoop dreams, while tackling what former players do with their lives once the promise of signing bonuses and sponsorship deals appears to have fizzled. (NBA star Blake Griffin, incidentally, is among the producers, joining several of his contemporaries in establishing a Hollywood toehold while still suiting up.)... On that level, at least, the movie works reasonably well. It’s the hitches in the rest of its game that prevent it, even as a streaming proposition, from being anything close to a slam dunk.
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Sep 10, 2024
10
Off the top movie. If this is the first time jackHarlow.Featuring in moviethat's crazy good
Sep 9, 2024
10
I really love this becauseit'sgraphic was so goog and maitain it to watch full video
May 18, 2023
50
This new iteration may be interesting from a cultural perspective, if not particularly worthwhile on its own — unless you’re a Jack Harlow fan.
May 21, 2023
40
The drama feels undercooked, and the characters barely escape one-dimensionality.
May 17, 2023
38
Take away the point-by-point comparison, even accepting the jump shots and backdoor cuts on the court, this remake still never gets off the ground.
May 19, 2023
30
The updated, oversized mayhem is emblematic of a culture and a movie in which the outrageous is too often deemed an improvement, and showbiz suits can’t seem to leave cult classics well enough alone. Thinner than Victor Wembanyama and ever eager to please, the new White Men tries way too hard and acts like a teammate more interested in hamming it up than hitting the open man.
May 18, 2023
25
The problem just keeps coming back to Harlow. Not only is he just out of his depth in hitting the necessary comedic notes, but the hollowness of his performance also becomes impossible to overlook when his character goes through a rough patch and must find redemption.
May 19, 2023
4
A charmless remake that has the same ideas and characters as the original, but none of the energy. Director Calmatic's idea of a sports film is to put a rap soundtrack on and show us poorly shot and edited basketball scenes that are tedious to follow and care.
May 19, 2023
4
Lacks all of the charm of the original, Harlow isn't terrible at acting but his character is one the more insufferable in a long time. Also on a side note, it's bad enough we lost Lance **** in real life but now I have had to watch him die in back to back movie roles.
May 25, 2023
3
(Mauro Lanari)
Thanks to Calmatic, director of video clips and commercials, and the streaming distribution of Disney+, we now have a remake for tiktokers and cinema will never be the same again. "It's cringe at most" (cit.).
May 21, 2023
3
I have a rule of not imposing my opinion on people and I try to avoid telling them not to see any particular movie, but here I'm gonna make it very easy for you. There is a movie made in 1992 starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson that is devastatingly superior to this dreck in every aspect and I would tell you in any situation that you'd better watch that one over this ''update''. What a sad pursuit to do remakes of lesser quality because they expect young audiences to watch it just because it stars a mainstream ''rapper''.
If that's what motivates you to watch it, then go ahead, but if you're more interested in quality instead, then I say you'd better turn your attention to the original.
May 23, 2023
1
Space Jam 2 was better. They should’ve put the pig from looney tunes in the movie because he’s a better rapper than Jack.
