Needless to say, she barely gets in the door at the audition. And that's when the plot in Troy Beyer's grossly under-developed screenplay starts to unravel. For reasons that are never clear or plausible, a scheming young man hires the two inept young women to live with an aging millionaire in a lavish Beverly Hills mansion. And you don't have to be a genius to figure out how Nisi and Mickey are going to get the seed money for their dream of a combination hair salon and lunch counter. Directed by Robert Townsend, B.A.P.S. offers about as much character development and plot complexity as you could scribble on a cocktail napkin.
Landau have little choice but to overact, trying to create explosions where there is no dynamite.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.