Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 01/20/2004
SubTitles: Espanol
Sound: 2
Run Time: 90 min
Distributor/Studio: Live/Artisan
Most people want to have a good-looking date for their high school reunion, but four guys with more at stake than just pride scramble to find the right girl for the occasion in this
comedy.
Max (
Brian Hooks),
J-Ron (
Troy Winbush),
Drew (
Darryl Brunson), and
Jellyroll were four close friends in high school who shortly after graduation made a bet -- each man threw 50 dollars into the pot, and it was decided whoever brought the best-looking woman to their ten-year high school reunion would collect all the money. Ten years down the line, the guys discover that after ten years of smart investing, the two hundred bucks has become a whopping 50,000 dollars, but as their reunion looms on the horizon, none of them has a girlfriend, or even a steady date. With that much money at stake, all four are eager to find a sexy woman with an evening to spare, and they all end up looking on the internet, visiting chat rooms in search of an available knockout. It isn't long before that truth in advertising isn't all that common in the online dating game.
Chat Room was written and directed by comic and actor
Brian Hooks, who also stars as
Max.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Crude, profane, and predictable,
Chat Room is not without its moments of mirth. But to get to them one must tolerate the usual tripe that passes for humor in
urban comedies: scenes that demean women and the handicapped, crude jokes about fat people, and punch lines that rely on profanity instead of cleverness. But the natural-born misogynists in the audience will find the extended montage of erratic blind dates somewhat funny, but only because the women in the cast give it their best. The woman who wears the ukulele on her head -- hey, it could happen -- and the girl from the hood are the funniest. Production values are a notch or two higher than most low-budget urban offerings. If you have to rent an
urban comedy, you could do a lot worse than
Chat Room.
~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide
