Next Friday
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Plot synopsis:
After Craig Jones' successful fight against the neighborhood bully Deebo in the previous film, rumors spread that Deebo will be breaking out of jail soon and will be looking to enact revenge on Craig. As a result, Craig's father Willie decides to have him stay with his uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day in Rancho Cucamonga. Craig agrees to go, albeit reluctantly, as he does not want to leave behind his best friend Smokey who is currently away at a rehabilitation center in an effort to cure his marijuana addiction. However, it isn't until Craig and Willie are about to leave, they have a brief confrontation with Deebo and his little brother, Tyrone.
Initially, life with his uncle and cousin seems to be ideal but trouble soon arises. In spite of his family winning the lottery, Day-Day informs Craig that his family is not rich anymore. After taxes were deducted from their winnings, all they were left with was their house and Day-Day's BMW. Because of this, Day-Day still has a job at Pinky's, a local record store.
Day-Day's pregnant ex-girlfriend D'Wana is angry about their breakup and delusional Day-Day is the father. She vandalizes his car, pepper sprays him and threatens to return with her sister, Baby D.
A family of Mexican thugs, the Joker brothers live next door and Day-Day and Craig learn about their drug dealing activities from Mrs. Ho-Kym. Craig notices their sister Karla, but Day-Day warns him to stay away from her because of the tension between them and the Joker brothers. The mailman gives Craig a notice for the house being auctioned and he goes to the record store to inform Day-Day.
As Craig arrives at the record store he sees Day-Day being harassed by customer about the terribleness the CD he brought at the store. Craig immediately gets tired of the customer and throws him out and tells Day-Day about the letter they received in the mail. As Day-Day begins to freak out, Roach answers a phone call from D'wana and Baby D threatening to enter the store and alerts him. Day-Day then runs to the door and locks it.
When D'wana and Baby D get to the door to find out it's locked they then bang on it demanding entrance. When allowed entrance by Craig. D'wana instantly ask for Day-Day and when denied, she pretends to be looking for a CD. Day-Day is then spotted by D'wana who said that she needed to go to the bathroom and gets chased out of the back entrance by Baby D and D'wana. The guys later makes it back into the store to relax and talk about what's been going on lately. While the fellas are inside the record store D'wana and Baby D are still outside harassing Day-Day by throwing a brick through the windshield of his BMW.
Shortly after that situation the record store owner Pinky returns and mistakes Craig for a thief attempting to rob his store. After fighting Craig, Pinky fires both Day-Day and Roach on the spot.
Having previously received a notice of unpaid taxes, Day-Day is extremely upset with Craig for getting him fired. As they think of a solution and Roach attempts to leave, he slips on his skateboard which is then intentionally run over by the Joker brothers. As they watch, they see the eldest Joker brother removing a suspicious hydraulic pump from the trunk. They decide to find out what is inside the pump, with Roach distracting Chico with a chronic hidden in a brownie.
Craig and Day-Day manage to break into the Jokers’ house and Craig discovers the hydraulic pump contains a large amount of drug money and steals some of it. Craig then goes into Karla's bedroom which impresses her and she tells Craig the whole story about her family. The neighborhood was peaceful until her brothers got out of jail by taking over the house and are the direct cause of her parents' mental breakdown. Karla and her parents tried to avoid her brothers by saving money and moving away, hoping it would deter them to remain in jail. However, she mentions that it only encouraged Joker, Lil' Joker and Baby Joker to follow them everywhere they go. After hearing this, Craig is encouraged to restore peace in Rancho Cucamonga and help Karla to put her brothers back in jail.
Day-Day and Roach grow nervous about Craig's prolonged absence and attempt to find him. They knock at the door and are greeted by the three brothers who are armed with handguns and automatic rifles and take them hostage after discovering their money has been stolen. When Craig realizes that Day-Day has not returned home, he, Willie, who arrives after receiving a "message" that Craig was in trouble, and Elroy plan a rescue mission. Willie and Elroy takeout Joker's younger brothers, Lil' Joker and Baby Joker.
A fight then ensues between Craig and Joker, while Day-Day and Roach are freed by Elroy. After a scuffle in which Joker aims an automatic rifle at Craig, Day-Day and Roach, he gets knocked out from behind by Deebo, who along with Tyrone, had snuck into Willie's truck after spotting Willie at a restaurant bathroom and tricking him into thinking Craig was in trouble. Tyrone takes Joker's rifle from the unconscious Joker and gives it to Deebo so he can exact revenge on Craig. Fortunately, Chico, Joker's dog attacks Deebo and Tyrone. The police arrive soon after and arrest Deebo, Tyrone and the Joker brothers. This gives Craig the opportunity to make off with the hydraulic pump and the cash, which does not go unnoticed by Joker as he and his brothers, along with Deebo and Tyrone are hauled away.
Craig, Day-Day and Elroy split the money, with Elroy expressing his gratitude to Craig, as Craig and Willie depart back to South Central. As they prepare to leave, he spots D'wana pulling up to Day-Day's BMW, and sees Baby D get out and toss a brick through the rear window and the two speed off laughing.

Review: Next Friday is actually pretty funny even though it lacks the film's first scene stealer Chris Tucker.
Ice Cube makes a funny script with the help of new scene stealer Mike Epps who plays his cousin Day-Day. All in all if you just want a good time check this one out..
Rated R for Language,Drug Use and Sexual Content.Next Friday is the sequel to the movie Friday and the second movie in the trilogy.Friday and Friday After Next were very funny movies.This one was not as funny but did have some really funny moments and was overall a fun and entertaining film.In this one, Craig moves to the suburbs with his rich uncle Elroy and his cousin Day Day.The reason he moves out of his old neighborhood is because Deebo has broken out of jail and wants revenge on Craig for beating him up(this happened in the first movie).There are some more funny characters in this movie such as Pinky the owner of the record store that Day Day works at and the three Mexican brothers who like to start trouble.Next Friday may not be as good as the first or third Friday movie but it is still funny and worth watching.8/10.
Jacob Vargas was hilarious, and he's been in a lot of other good movies like AIRBORNE, CRIMSON TIDE, MY FAMILY, GET SHORTY, SELENA, and ROMY AND MICHELLE.
Ice Cube is a talented guy, and he did the best (or worst) he could with his character, but it wasn't a shining role like it was in FRIDAY.
The "biches" (Joker's women) were very hot, and Lisa Rodriguez had a smart female character, something not seen much in movies like these.
The first Friday was a classic, not to be messed with, and they put out this awful movie as a sequel.
Some nice jokes, especially the joker brother, and ice cube was very funny to.
When I first heard that Next Friday was coming to the theater, I was excited but unfortunately it never came to the theater in my hometown but when we rented it on video, I was actually quite dissapointed cause it was a basic rehash of the original with a lot less laughs, while this movie still contains some funny parts it just wasn't the same like the original and I wish that Smokey (Chris Tucker) was in this movie, Day Day (Mike Epps) wasn't half as funny as Chris Tucker, but Ice Cube, John Witherspoon and Tiny Lister (as Deebo) does a great job for what they got.Overall this movie isn't a big letdown or a waste of time, it just doesn't come close to the original's standards, if you liked the first Friday or like gangsta comedies, then you'll like Next Friday.
Craig gets into some misadventures with his cousin's family and the Latino gangster neighbors as the family faces foreclosure.I'm not saying that Chris Tucker is a magical elixir for any franchise but part of the original charm is the lead characters' friendship.
Without Chris Tucker, the Friday series begins to lack a bit of the good comedy he provided.
This wasn't as funny as the other two Fidays, but it still can make you laugh hard enough if you just watch the movie and try not to look for flaws..
Next Friday also has some pretty good acting, which in general make the movie even funnier.
It Was A Bad Day. Next Friday is one of the worst films ever made.Starring rap "star" Ice Cube,this is an awful film portraying black people as a bunch of lazy,stupid,indecent,trashy goofballs with no purpose in life but indulging in sex,drugs,money,and pleasure.No character in the film,including Ice Cube's own character,is anybody that you would care about when watching the "film".The attempts at humor fall way short of O'Shea Jackson's(Ice Cube's real name) means of achieving them.It is just a ugly feature film filled with vulgarity,violence,poor taste,and ebonics,showing blacks in a terrible light.
I don't find this movie nearly as good as the first Friday, mainly because of the absence of Chris Tucker.
Ice Cube alone just isn't able to lift the movie and the portrayel of the beyond idiotic hispanic neighbours is too stupid to be funny.
As long as you don't make the fatal mistake of trying to compare Day Day with Smokey from the original as they are both different characters, but very funny in their own separate way.
Following on from the original Friday, Craig Jones (Ice Cube) has moved away from the 'hood to Rancho Cucamonga to live with his eccentric (and hilarious) Uncle Elroy and his cousin Day Day to escape from his arch nemesis Deebo who is due to escape from prison and hurt him for beating him up before he went to jail.
Although I missed Chris Tucker, and some of the other characters in the original, I enjoyed this film as well..but not as much.I think it's worth taking a look at.
Ice Cube once again shows us his writing talents by giving us a great movie to see on Friday.
And even though Chris Tucker is not there, the new characters make up for the comedy with loads of funny, stereo-typical humor that just makes you laugh your butt off.
jacob vargas was much funnier in my opinion and the joker brothers were the funniest thing in this movie thats why i liked it better then the first one.
And it ain't Day Day or Craig who makes the movie so hilarious, it is the Joker brothers across the street.
I thought this was going to be funny and carry a good plot like the first Friday.
Fist, I would like to point out that I loved Friday.I've had it with all these people saying "oh, this movie was not so bad, it's different from the first, blah, blah, blah!" This 'film' was an utter failure on every count.
It is obvious that Ice Cube attempted here to recreate the same laughs (and i do mean -same-, since almost every joke in the movie is a rehashing of some joke that worked in the first)  Even though not a single one succeded in even arousing more than a bland sense of contempt, this wasn't a bad idea to work from, since it is equally as apparent that he has no ability to create an interesting or well thought out plot.
This film starts out like it has a good plot working, it gets you thinking about how that convict is gonna catch up with Craig and they're going to have a showdown - which would have been good.
A lot of controversy was revolving around the fact that Chris Tucker was not going to be in the movie so it would not be worth watching.
In all if you just think of this as another comedy movie and not the sequel to "Friday", you will definitely laugh..
Ice Cube made a major blunder when he did not pursue Chris Tucker to make the sequel.
I felt despite the loss of Chris Tucker to the cast it was a solid second effort and blows the doors of many other sequels to hit movies (Dusk til Dawn are you listening???).
After seeing the first Friday film and enjoying it, I expected this sequel to while not living up to the first, to be an enjoyable comedy that would serve up a decent amount of laughs.This film is the equivalent of an Araon Seltzer and Jason Friedberg movie where the film has no plot and the humor is solely based around swearing and being vulgar, except it's all irritating and not funny in the slightest.
Anyway, true there's no sight of Chris Tucker anywhere in this movie, its still definitely worth watching over and over again.
Also, the closing track of "You Can Do It" is one of the Cube's best.Yes, the characters are stereotypical cut-outs and there's a lot of offensive humor, but the film is still very good.
Cube is a good writer, and he came up with such original lines like, "You ever heard of El Nino?" "Yes."  "Well, this is El Negro."  There were many wacky moments where I laughed hard, like the one with Pinky, the owner of a music store who comes to work in a limo and struts around like a pimp.
He hangs out with his moronic friend Day-Day and they try to be funny with a long series of boring, tired, done-a-million-times jokes on drugs, sex and flatulence.I cannot believe that someone who is supposed to have some talent such as Ice Cube could have written such trash.
The first Friday was hilarious, but I only laughed a few times with this movie.
Ice Cube carries this movie very well, and his cousin Day-Day and Uncle Elroy are hilarious.
Horrible.First off, I felt like Ice Cube and Mike Epps could have easily filmed this on a lazy Sunday afternoon and shipped this out while drunk to the movies.
This one takes place exactly a week after "Friday" did.Next Friday is about Craig Jones (Ice Cube) who reprises his role as Craig, goes to live with his uncle in Cucamonga after the neighborhood bully he beat up escapes from prison.
Mike Epps takes the role of the supporting character, Day-Day, Craig's cousin.
Which they tricked him in driving down to Cucamonga saying Craig was hurt.In the line of "Good Sequels" and "Bad Sequels", this has it's moment, but its nothing compared to classic "Friday." This one tries to have a lot of memoirs to the first movie, which it does, but many are forgettable.
Still a decent sequel, I recommend Next Friday, but see the old Friday before this or you will be lost.Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, and John Witherspoon.
this second film in the Friday trilogy is a pretty good film.i enjoyed it quite a bit.it's pretty funny at times,though maybe not quite as funny as the first one was.i think they stretched a couple of the jokes too thin.there is one running joke that they milked a bit too much.still the story is interesting.the cast of characters is not quite as large,with only a handful of characters from the first film returning.Ice Cube is back as Craig,and John Witherspoon returns as his Dad,Mr.Jones.there are some new characters,but these are not nearly as quirky or interesting as the characters in the first movie.to me,they seemed a bit stereotypical.overall,though,the movie is funny and entertaining.for me,Next Friday is a 7/10.
Vengeful bully Deebo escapes from prison and makes his way back to South Central to try and settle the score with Craig (Cube).
Follow-up to Friday has more of a plot than its predecessor, along with a likable cast, but it has an abundance of crude humor which seems more desperate than funny, and the whole thing gets old pretty quickly.
I know the rating on IMDb doesn't seem too promising, but believe me, I think that people were just being a little too harsh on the film because it wasn't like the first one.Craig has to stay with his lottery winning uncle and cousin 'till things cool down back home since the bully he took down in the first Friday broke out of prison.
When Craig finds out about his uncle and cousin's house being sold in an auction, he and Day-Day try to find a way to get the money to keep the house.I really laughed a lot more in Next Friday than the first one, as much as I love Chris Tucker, I have to admit that he was somewhat annoying in the first movie, it was nice having a little tone down in this film.
But seriously, people need to cut this movie a break because it is a really funny film when you just let go and relax.
The prequel to this film had a better story in it, and being a fan of hood movies, better locations.Ice Cube once again proving he is a talented person, not some lifeless rapper - turned - actor.
His part was as good as his last, but some new characters in this movie did not prove to me the film was better.I would like to give this a better rating than 6/10, but for me it was not a big hitter.So, the sequel theory is right again.
When he hears that Deebo plans to break out of prison, Craig gets taken to a much better neighbourhood to avoid trouble by hiding out with his lottery-winning uncle Elroy and his drugged out cousin Day-Day. Unknown to Craig though, Deebo has a plan for finding out where he is hiding but in the meantime he has his own problems: Day-Day has a Fatal Attraction thing going on with a neighbour, Uncle Elroy is a freak, another neighbour appears to be in a gang and it is only a matter of time before Craig is back in trouble on another Friday.Opening with the credits delivered in weed smoke while the smokers chuckle and comment about them, I knew from the start that this was hardly going to the film to watch if I was looking for anything beyond ebonics and clowning.
They leave the 'hood and head to Rancho Cucamunga where Craig would be staying with his lucky uncle Elroy, who recently won the million dollar Lotto, and his hip cousin Day Day. Willie was jealous of Elroy and didn't come in the house.
Craig said goodbye to Elroy, Suga and Day Day and returned home with Willie to good ol' South Central.Next Friday.
Ice Cube is back as Craig and as funny as ever.
So if you like Ice Cube or movies about the 'hood or you saw the first Friday, then by all means see Next Friday today!
I Think Friday Was Good But They Added Just a Little More Humor With Mike Epps Although I Wish They Would've Kept Smokey (Chris Tucker) But I Thought It Was Really Good.
But Craig Decides To Move To The Suburbs with uncle Elroy and day-day (mike Epps) .
Chris Tucker and Ice Cube were great, along with John Witherspoon, but this movie could have been so much better.
I would have liked to see Chris Tucker in it, but Mike Epps coming into the role as Ice Cubes cousin in a nice suburb was awesome.
My suggestion for Ice Cube is to choose acting or music and stick with it because this performance doesn't show how good he can be."Next Friday" is a film that should have gone directly to video because that is where it belongs.
My suggestion for Ice Cube is to choose acting or music and stick with it because this performance doesn't show how good he can be."Next Friday" is a film that should have gone directly to video because that is where it belongs.
Once you lose a main character like Chris Tucker, you lose your movie.
This movie to me was the weakest movie i have seen in a long time with jokes that is not even funny there tried to make a sequel to Friday but with this it didn't happen this is one of those movies that when you are watching it you are thinking to your self wow i must be bored nothing about the way the movie was made was good to me it was a big joke in its self i would not ever ever ever see this movie again and I thought don't be a mince while drinking your juice in the hood was bad I think this should win the trash award I would rate it a -1 out of 10 A movie with a bad plot and  brainless actors..
I recomend this film to people who like corny stupid and funny movies!
Next Friday was as good as the first one the people that didn't see it because Chris Tucker wasn't in it are stupid.
Mike Epps is no Chris Tucker, but he is just as funny and is own his way to becoming one of the funniest comedians out today.The movie has laughs from start to finish.
Everyone should forget about the whole issue if Chris Tucker is in it or not...Next Friday is funny!
What made Friday such a good movie was its originality combined with the credibility of the antics that anyone who lived in a similar neighborhood could relate to or maybe even remember.
When I heard when they were coming out with "Next Friday" and got the news that Chris Tucker wasn't coming back, I thought it was going to be jake.
The only differences are that Craig (Ice Cube) has gone from South Central L.A. to the suburbs.
Going into this movie, I was thinking "Next Friday" was at best going to be a decent film, but I was wrong.
Going into this movie, I was thinking "Next Friday" was at best going to be a decent film, but I was wrong.
Going into this movie, I was thinking "Next Friday" was at best going to be a decent film, but I was wrong.
Still, the movie isn't the worst ever, it has many laughs from it's supporting characters (John Witherspoon, Mike Epps, Don Curry) who play Craig's odd family.
Next Lame Day. Next Friday (2000): Dir: Steve Carr / Cast: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Tamala Jones: Brainless mess with absolutely no reason for existing.
Sequel to Friday with Ice Cube writing and narrating the film.
If you missed "Friday," Craig (Ice Cube) beat the Goliath of the ghetto, Deebo (Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr.) to a pulp after the bully had run roughshod over the neighborhood.
Unfortunately, producer Ice Cube and freshman director Steve Carr screw up "Next Friday." They squander too many good characters.
and i love how day-day (mike epps) and Craig (ice cube) fight.
and i love how day-day (mike epps) and Craig (ice cube) fight.
i think it is the best Friday of all, and my favorites movie.