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- 2003
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 2003
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Honey Daniels (Alba) has been waiting all her life to show the world her dance moves and now, everything she ever wanted is just a step away. (Universal)
Directed By: Bille Woodruff
Written By: Alonzo Brown, Kim Watson
- 2003
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 2003
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Honey Daniels (Alba) has been waiting all her life to show the world her dance moves and now, everything she ever wanted is just a step away. (Universal)
Directed By: Bille Woodruff
Written By: Alonzo Brown, Kim Watson
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
37
7% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
37% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
37
7% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
37% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Honey brings out the wholesome, affirmative side of the hip-hop aesthetic without being overly preachy, and it offers a winningly utopian view of show-business success without real costs or compromises.
First-time director Billie Woodruff, a music video veteran, busts his moves in the dance scenes while the movie throbs to the beat of the wall-to-wall soundtrack.
By no means is this a good movie, but it's warmed by the solar energy of its star, who surely deserves better than this formula empowerment flick.
With less than five minutes of screen time but with more humor and sassy attitude than the remaining cast combined, Missy Elliott separates hip-hop royalty from riff raff in the otherwise lackluster Honey.
It evokes a warmed-over Fox TV special.
Amid the endless stream of catch-a-rising-star movie clichés that Honey screenwriters Alonzo Brown and Kim Watson throw up and out are a few new ones, notably "skinny girls always win out in the end" and "hootchie bad, faux hootchie good."