Janky Promoters

Ice Cube Does it again
I purchased this movie eventhough I hadn't heard about it. I gave it a chance because I've loved all of Ice Cube's releases. Janky did not dissapoint. I was laughing the whole movie. Cube and Epps are a great team. I'm looking forward to Cube's next release.

GREAT
The combination: Ice Cube and Mike Epps are very funny. Ther is nothing more to say. WATCH & ENJOY THE MOVIE.

Gettin' Janky With It
"Janky Promoters" is the latest gleefully low-brow buddy comedy pairing Ice Cube and Mike Epps. Here, the duo star as a pair of improbably incompetent concert promoters. Cube (Russell Redds) and Epps (Jellyroll) have just struck a deal with popular hip-hop artist Young Jeezy (playing himself), and have less than 24 hours to finalize the logistics, despite the fact that they have less than $1,000 between them.

Thus begins a series of increasingly grating misadventures, as Russell and Jellyroll seek to con their way into having a successful show. The filmmakers could have made the lead characters more likeable, despite their slacker status. As it stands, despite the efforts of Cube and Epps, Russell and Jellyroll mainly come across as boorish clowns that you want to fail--Russell steals his fiancée's checkbook to pay his share of the concert costs, and Jellyroll brags to a reality-TV crew that he's sleeping with a married woman (Character actors Tamala Jones and...

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