please please PLEASE DO NOT watch or even bother renting this film, it's suck's big time. like the previous reviews said it wouldn't have been so bad if there was a story, or even some characters to like. It is bad, Worst film ever? yeah, maybe.
12 Reviews
Possibly the worst movie EVER!!!
dancinlukey21 October 2002
First of all I would like to say this film doesn't even deserve 1 star, but I had no choice but to give it one. On the DVD cover that was on it in my local video store it read "No.1 US Box Office Smash Hit!" thats funny because the movie was a straight to video deal! The only thing this dvd is good for is a) Use as a coaster. b) For the guys at Mystery Science Theater to destroy. The acting is AWFUL, The script is bad and the camera work is so shoddy it was like it was being filmed on a trampoline while barry white was jumping all around the camera man... lets face it IT'S REALLY BAD!!!!! avoid it!
lies and rubbish
rgsftw6 January 2005
US BOX OFFICE SMASH HIT - definitely not - this is labelled on the front cover something tells me there was a miss print as it should read 'NO WAY IN HELL COULD THIS EVER BE A US BOX OFFICE SMASH HIT'
acting - awful i mean a kids school production has better acting - when there 5 years old
storyline - well there isn't any - just a BBQ with random people turning up and doing nothing - and showing them doing nothing
worst part - a gay group turned up and was chased by a straight guy this scene was shot from above and lasted about 10mins all u saw was 2 men running around camera- its safe to say they used a webcam throughout the making of this film
it was just boring boring boring unbelievable boring i swear most of the times they didn't know they lines but instead of cutting and doing a re-take they just though oh well we know its rubbish whats the point
acting - awful i mean a kids school production has better acting - when there 5 years old
storyline - well there isn't any - just a BBQ with random people turning up and doing nothing - and showing them doing nothing
worst part - a gay group turned up and was chased by a straight guy this scene was shot from above and lasted about 10mins all u saw was 2 men running around camera- its safe to say they used a webcam throughout the making of this film
it was just boring boring boring unbelievable boring i swear most of the times they didn't know they lines but instead of cutting and doing a re-take they just though oh well we know its rubbish whats the point
This Bar-B-Q is Tasteless!
loopyallie16 September 2002
This is a truly awful amateurish film I ever seen! I thought it was going to be one of those cool Hip Hop film! The film looks so as it was handmade by Camcorder. The film's first hour is about this guy (John West) ringing all his mates to come to his bar-b-q party and the next is people yakking, farting, beltching, wingeing. It has no storyline whatsoever! Sound quality is bad! The best thing about this film is the soundtrack, thats it!
Fictional movie star goes back to "the hood"
daisycurl11 January 2006
I would like to suggest that this film be shown to all film students around the world. That way this crime against film will never happen again. This is (without doubt) THE WORST FILM EVER MADE. EVER. Normally when a film is bad at least it actually looks like a film. This piece of tripe looks like someone used their home camcorder. I am glad that the makers of this film decided to make their own movie, everyone has the right to be creative. But why, oh why was this allowed to be put in video stores across the globe? I think this film could be nominated in every category of any anti-award ceremony. I wasted good money and time on this,please don't be its next victim.
Without any shadow of a doubt, the worst film ever made by a long margin
jonathangold200325 August 2006
Words cannot describe how dreadful this film is. The production and distribution of this film probably rates as the most heinous crime against humanity since the holocaust.
This film was dubbed "US. number one box office smash hit" and "the funniest hip hop movie since Friday" (on the front cover) - the biggest hoax since the "Jack the Ripper Diaries".
How on Earth this film ever made it across the Atlantic into the Blockbusters store in Oxford is the greatest mystery to trouble humankind since the Turin Shroud affair.
The film consists of nothing more than footage of a barbecue. The film-makers clearly weren't in possession of a proper microphone so any conversation is inaudible, drowned out by background noise. Bizarrely, they chose to spend the entire budget on an astroturf stage; wood can be seen protruding from the floor. Why not just use real grass??????????? The only redeeming feature of the film is a fat guy who farts a lot. However, even this started to wear a bit thin after about fifteen minutes of non-stop footage.
Small confession: I still chose to watch it twice!!!!!!!!!
This film was dubbed "US. number one box office smash hit" and "the funniest hip hop movie since Friday" (on the front cover) - the biggest hoax since the "Jack the Ripper Diaries".
How on Earth this film ever made it across the Atlantic into the Blockbusters store in Oxford is the greatest mystery to trouble humankind since the Turin Shroud affair.
The film consists of nothing more than footage of a barbecue. The film-makers clearly weren't in possession of a proper microphone so any conversation is inaudible, drowned out by background noise. Bizarrely, they chose to spend the entire budget on an astroturf stage; wood can be seen protruding from the floor. Why not just use real grass??????????? The only redeeming feature of the film is a fat guy who farts a lot. However, even this started to wear a bit thin after about fifteen minutes of non-stop footage.
Small confession: I still chose to watch it twice!!!!!!!!!
Terrible, badly made movie
toffeedragon-318 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Someone I know bought this DVD. I was a bit suspicious when they gave it to me as an impromptu gift but decided to watch it anyway. Now, the big mistake I made was selecting this movie as my film to watch on my portable DVD player whilst using the treadmill in my homemade gym in my garden shed.
I cried tears, but not tears of laughter. This film enraged me and I felt like a captive audience as I had brought nothing else to watch and did not want to stop halfway through my workout. Oh how I cried! This film has no storyline and terrible, abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, shocking acting and camera-work.
I have now given this disc to someone else and double dared them to watch it to the end.
Watch this movie if you don't value your sanity.
You may wonder why I said that my comment contains spoilers but I can safely tell you that I have spoilt the plot by revealing that it does in actual fact contain no events of any note whatsoever. I'm so evil...Mwa ha ha haaa...
I cried tears, but not tears of laughter. This film enraged me and I felt like a captive audience as I had brought nothing else to watch and did not want to stop halfway through my workout. Oh how I cried! This film has no storyline and terrible, abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, shocking acting and camera-work.
I have now given this disc to someone else and double dared them to watch it to the end.
Watch this movie if you don't value your sanity.
You may wonder why I said that my comment contains spoilers but I can safely tell you that I have spoilt the plot by revealing that it does in actual fact contain no events of any note whatsoever. I'm so evil...Mwa ha ha haaa...
Officially the worst film I have and probably will ever see
jamiechuter1 May 2006
This film is sooooo bad that signed up up just to say how bad it is, I don't understand how anyone can claim this film is anything other than awful to the point of being painful to sit through.
I honestly was in the same situation as the other person on here where I returned it to HMV just by saying how bad it was.
If anyone can watch it they really should it will win any argument as to which is the worse film ever.
I'm a huge Bone Thugs fan the only reason I picked this up and Layzie walks across the screen twice and thats about all you get from him. (I may have lied about that but he's only in a couple of scenes at most) Being serious though, The acting in this film is poor, The story... well it would have been a welcome addition to the film, there actually is no story in this film except lets get everyone into someone's back yard and .... erm... well thats it, This may be the point of a BBQ but hardly worthy of putting on film there is nothing to be learnt from this film and the only thought provoking part of this film is that it inspires you that you could draw a flick book of stick men more interesting The Cameras are as dyer as everyone is saying the film was bairly in focus at any stage and the camera was bouncing and wobbling, The Characters is I guess the only part of this film that they try to make happen and the various different types of people that turn up to a BBQ but they are ridiculous not in a funny way in a so far from reality and common sense totally unbelievable, How anyone can seriously mention this film being nominated or even funnier complain about it being "overlooked" by the Oscars is beyond me I wouldn't even joke about it winning anything that implied this film was good in anyway, because it would be as believable as the characters in the film I did however notice that 100% of its good reviews come from Americans and 100% of the non U.S. reviews give it 1 star and prob would if they could give it 0 and they say Americans don't understand Irony!
I honestly was in the same situation as the other person on here where I returned it to HMV just by saying how bad it was.
If anyone can watch it they really should it will win any argument as to which is the worse film ever.
I'm a huge Bone Thugs fan the only reason I picked this up and Layzie walks across the screen twice and thats about all you get from him. (I may have lied about that but he's only in a couple of scenes at most) Being serious though, The acting in this film is poor, The story... well it would have been a welcome addition to the film, there actually is no story in this film except lets get everyone into someone's back yard and .... erm... well thats it, This may be the point of a BBQ but hardly worthy of putting on film there is nothing to be learnt from this film and the only thought provoking part of this film is that it inspires you that you could draw a flick book of stick men more interesting The Cameras are as dyer as everyone is saying the film was bairly in focus at any stage and the camera was bouncing and wobbling, The Characters is I guess the only part of this film that they try to make happen and the various different types of people that turn up to a BBQ but they are ridiculous not in a funny way in a so far from reality and common sense totally unbelievable, How anyone can seriously mention this film being nominated or even funnier complain about it being "overlooked" by the Oscars is beyond me I wouldn't even joke about it winning anything that implied this film was good in anyway, because it would be as believable as the characters in the film I did however notice that 100% of its good reviews come from Americans and 100% of the non U.S. reviews give it 1 star and prob would if they could give it 0 and they say Americans don't understand Irony!
Great Movie
Ryan_Jaronik11 February 2006
I have seen this movie as well, and I also think it deserved to be nominated for, nay, AWARDED an academy award. Xavier Rivers portrayal as T'Man was outstanding, and I'm surprised he got shunned as well. Who knew Layzie Bone could act so well, I didn't. When they said, and I quote, "Ya'll want some scorpion tea," I almost peed myself. Truly a masterpiece. I hope they are currently working on the sequel, perhaps filming in New Zealand or some other wacky place below the equator where I here the water reverses when you flush the toilet. I had a cousin once who went down there and he told me that, but he also stole an Almond Joy from me when we were kids so I'm not so sure if I can really trust him. Does anyone out there have any input on this topic?
Yummy Bar-B-Q
dannyboy87045 June 2004
From the cover of this DVD my mum thought " This looks like an enjoyable party picture" (Everything about this comment was wrong). When she brought home, I recall she brought a few other films with her. We looked at each film and, fittingly, this "film" was at the bottom of the pile. "Bar-B-Q?" "Oh just give it a try. The front cover said "No.1 in America"" So we decided to give it a try. We had watched the other films and were, as usual, disappointed. Opened the video player.Popped it in.Black Screen.Opening Credits.Grainy.Artistic? "Featuring Lazy Bone of Bone Thugs And Harmony" Oh. To my latest recollection he wasn't even of David Spade standard. But The Crossroads was great. The first couple of minutes were a strain on the eyes, ears and human rights... and this was before the overweight male(By the way:Best thing on the video) came in with his deeply unnecessary bodily function jokes. I could see my mum curling up in the corner with "laughter". The final straw came when a car pulled up about half-way through the video and the camera zoomed in and out like someones 2 year old brother had started playing with the camera. We decided to watch it. It could be laughably bad. Now, with the exception of a confusingly bad "British" guy complaining about the noise, it was not one of those films. Now, in Monty Python, it was passable with males playing females. But how John West thought the audience would simply ignore a huge man acting prissy without even a sideways chuckle I do not know. Hats off to the guy at Rolling Out(Rolling stone's little brother?) that lost the bet because: "Raw, Witty & Boisterously Entertaining"? Thats got to be THE best thing on the DVD I now own. This film has inspired me to make movies...because if this can get made, I am thinking of submitting the film of my dog...licking it's balls.
Great low brow comedy
monstermonkeyhead25 October 2005
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Hey, I don't understand all the bad reviews here. I think a lot of people are brain damaged by cgi effects in movies. This movie shows you don't need any high production values to make an entertaining film. I laughed my butt off at it. The fart and poop jokes alone make this funny. What else can I say? The various over-the-top characters are hilarious. You just never know what vulgarity will happily prance across the screen next. I really don't know what these other reviewers were expecting from a movie called Bar-b-q with a bunch of smiling black people on the box. Yeah, it's amateurish- this makes it better in my book. This is great stuff if you ask me!
First class entertainment for the whole family
JulieB82810 December 2004
I highly recommend this film to anyone who likes to learn. As soon as I saw it at my local Blockbuster I knew that I needed to watch it as soon as possible. Not since the days of the civil rights movement has a single event so singlehandedly helped change my perception of the African-American culture. I can't understand why this film was overlooked for the 2001 academy awards. The fabulous screen play coupled with the magnificent cinematography makes this movie a real gem. I fear that this movie did not receive the critical acclaim it deserved because of racial prejudices within the academy. This movie was truly an educational experience on Afro-American culture.
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