In an attempt to collect the money needed to open the project of their dreams, Nisi and Mickey, tow young smart and ambitious girls, who work as waitresses in California, who go to Los Angeles, in order to work as dancers, the thing that turns upside down their lives, as they meet a millionaire.
You can see how the black, modern-day Pygmalion-type story could work, just, but not with this heap of cabbage leaves for a script, and not with such desperately goofy acting from Berry and Desselle.
Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.
Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)
November 27, 2002
Apallingly bad. Robert Townsend's attempt at satirizing black culture is far off the mark.
San Francisco Chronicle
January 01, 2000
They both do good work, but it's Desselle who steals the film and grabs the major laughs.
t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.
