I watched this movie on a limb, it's totally low budget, there is some funny parts, but otherwise it's not that funny. What I did notice in the film, that there wasn't any music playing during the partying scenes, the family is yelling & screaming "Go Head!" and dancing around, but there's no music. I think what happened is that the director couldn't get rights to certain songs at the last moment and wasn't allowed to use the music in the movie. They could of substituted it with some other less known music, The movie as a whole is 85% not funny, the movie tried to be funny in parts and some of the jokes landed and I laughed, but a lot of them fell flat If you are a fan of African-American comedies then stay away from this one and watch a real comedy.
7 Reviews
Bad Movie
inmadonnawetrust3 June 2007
Imagine this scenario, 2 AM, lying in bed, flipping through channels, and you decide to watch Jeremy's Family Reunion. I read the info; its sounds like it may be a decent movie. It looked low-budget, so I watched it hoping for a good laugh. Although there were some funny moments, overall it was far from funny.
It seemed to play a lot on stereotypes and the acting by most of the characters was horrid. The main character was annoying and very disgusting. And, above all else, the storyline needs a savior! I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone--unless you're bored and you have 1.5 hours to spare.
It seemed to play a lot on stereotypes and the acting by most of the characters was horrid. The main character was annoying and very disgusting. And, above all else, the storyline needs a savior! I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone--unless you're bored and you have 1.5 hours to spare.
One of the worst movies I've seen.
scoutbeats15 January 2007
It was a late 5 am with friends browsing through the movie channels. We came across this piece of trash while searching. The filming and sound quality was so bad that it made us continue to watch just for a laugh. The movie felt like it lasted 10 hours and was so painful to watch but funny at times because of the horrid acting/filming. The only part in the movie that was actually decent was the scene with the fat crack head. At the end there was also 30 minutes of non-funny outtakes and why add that obsessive picking of the nose by the main actor? Useless and disgusting.
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Why we pay money to actually GO to film school...
mannyfon29 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I'm currently a film student and I peeped this film to see what others were doing. Here is the thought process that went through my mind: "here's a LOW budget film that I can peep on showtime on-demand, great, now I can see what others are doing" So I hit play and checked it out. My only words are..."seriously? Are you kidding me?"
The opening scene shows an older woman preparing a meal while filling out invitations to the "family reunion." She's singing while bopping around the kitchen. The shadows are horrendous! Look it's not hard. This is basic camera 101. I have an undergrad in film before I went down the road of graduate film work. This is NOT rocket science. Take 2 minutes and figure it out. Ever hear of fill light? Check out a book.
The titles being displayed during this sequence looks like they spent maybe 30 seconds on them. I see this all the time on student and amateur films. They spend hundreds of dollars, possibly even thousands of dollars then give the flick 2 dollar credits. Do you care so much about your film that you want to rush the titles? Take the time to give your movie the titles it deserves and some Apple, junior basic wedding self generated titles is a cop out. And that's a shame.
Okay okay...so it sounds like I'm jealous cause these guys have air time and I've yet to achieve it. Sure, sounds like it. But lets talk story and comedy. This is a comedy. In the post-credit opening scene, we find our lead sitting at his desk. With an itchy nose, he scratches it. But that's not enough, he starts to pick...and picking only leads to digging and now we are faced with a sequence that's a few minutes long of some dude digging for gold in his nose. Finallly he "scratches the itch" and retrieves the cause of the itch. A neon green booger at the end of his finger. (which disgustingly enough does not look like makeup but an actual snot remnant.) Wanting to get rid of it and hearing his boss coming down the hall he tries to hide it but is caught mid stream and is forced to shake the bosses hand with snot on his finger tip. It lands in his bosses hand and without noticing he scratches his nose he plants snot on the tip of his nose. This sequence is NOT even remotely funny nor is it even entertaining.
Before you jump to conclusions...I love Adam Sandler movies, my favorite flick are South Park and Airplane...D**k and fart jokes are common and if done well can be GREAT! So gross out humor is capable, don't give me snot, it's not funny especially as long as it lasts in the film.
Alright plot point asides, we need to talk stereotypes. The description of the plot according to On Demand is that a "young black male takes his white girlfriend to his family reunion and faces comical consequences." In the process of telling this story we face MANY stereotypes of African Americans. An uncle who drinks too much from a can in a paper bag. A cousin who smokes blunts. Granny is a drunk. The DJ smokes pot. The break dancing, the bumping the grinding the white chick who's in love with African American guys.
At the tail end of the flick we get the "Animal House Where-Are-They-Now" text. Some of it MIGHT make you chuckle, but not really.
I won't spoil the ending but I will talk about the credit sequence which is just horrible. After the final line of main movie is spoken we go into the obligatory gag reel. Here's the thing. It's cute and some of them are funny. But shave some frames off of them. There is a double series of takes that include a scene where they are trying to drop a ring in a certain spot. Okay, guess what? Although these are a part of film-making they are the FURTHEST thing from a gag real. IT'S NOT FUNNY! and do I NEED to see what seems like 10 minutes of ring dropping? Tighten it up! It's not funny and it slows it down.
While we are watching this gag reel (which is displayed in PIP squares) one would think that titles would be rolling in the empty space. Guess what? They're not. So we go though this LONG "gag" reel and THEN we have to sit through the end titles! This movie is only 87 minutes long and it was clearly obvious that they were fishing to have a "feature length" film. Content, NOT time length.
End of story...you have to wonder a few things. Who greenlit this? Who Paid for it? How did it get made? Who read the script and thought "I HAVE to do this"? How did they get this distributed and how did they get this on cable? What experience do these guys have? Why did the filmmakers choose to use aliases instead of their real names in the credits? The person that greenlit this flick...did they read the script? (I'd like to ask if there was even a script, but the gag reel having "actors" forget their lines in the gag reel alluded to the fact that there might have been writing on this one) (SIDENOTE: That kinda makes it even worse)
End of story is this: Look I understand, as a filmmaker myself, that stuff happens. There are stories that justify mistakes, and I would love to talk to anyone associated with the project to "fill me in" on what happened. And maybe help make sure the next one doesn't make the same mistakes. Either or, I can't recommend this film and hope that I save someone the time.
The opening scene shows an older woman preparing a meal while filling out invitations to the "family reunion." She's singing while bopping around the kitchen. The shadows are horrendous! Look it's not hard. This is basic camera 101. I have an undergrad in film before I went down the road of graduate film work. This is NOT rocket science. Take 2 minutes and figure it out. Ever hear of fill light? Check out a book.
The titles being displayed during this sequence looks like they spent maybe 30 seconds on them. I see this all the time on student and amateur films. They spend hundreds of dollars, possibly even thousands of dollars then give the flick 2 dollar credits. Do you care so much about your film that you want to rush the titles? Take the time to give your movie the titles it deserves and some Apple, junior basic wedding self generated titles is a cop out. And that's a shame.
Okay okay...so it sounds like I'm jealous cause these guys have air time and I've yet to achieve it. Sure, sounds like it. But lets talk story and comedy. This is a comedy. In the post-credit opening scene, we find our lead sitting at his desk. With an itchy nose, he scratches it. But that's not enough, he starts to pick...and picking only leads to digging and now we are faced with a sequence that's a few minutes long of some dude digging for gold in his nose. Finallly he "scratches the itch" and retrieves the cause of the itch. A neon green booger at the end of his finger. (which disgustingly enough does not look like makeup but an actual snot remnant.) Wanting to get rid of it and hearing his boss coming down the hall he tries to hide it but is caught mid stream and is forced to shake the bosses hand with snot on his finger tip. It lands in his bosses hand and without noticing he scratches his nose he plants snot on the tip of his nose. This sequence is NOT even remotely funny nor is it even entertaining.
Before you jump to conclusions...I love Adam Sandler movies, my favorite flick are South Park and Airplane...D**k and fart jokes are common and if done well can be GREAT! So gross out humor is capable, don't give me snot, it's not funny especially as long as it lasts in the film.
Alright plot point asides, we need to talk stereotypes. The description of the plot according to On Demand is that a "young black male takes his white girlfriend to his family reunion and faces comical consequences." In the process of telling this story we face MANY stereotypes of African Americans. An uncle who drinks too much from a can in a paper bag. A cousin who smokes blunts. Granny is a drunk. The DJ smokes pot. The break dancing, the bumping the grinding the white chick who's in love with African American guys.
At the tail end of the flick we get the "Animal House Where-Are-They-Now" text. Some of it MIGHT make you chuckle, but not really.
I won't spoil the ending but I will talk about the credit sequence which is just horrible. After the final line of main movie is spoken we go into the obligatory gag reel. Here's the thing. It's cute and some of them are funny. But shave some frames off of them. There is a double series of takes that include a scene where they are trying to drop a ring in a certain spot. Okay, guess what? Although these are a part of film-making they are the FURTHEST thing from a gag real. IT'S NOT FUNNY! and do I NEED to see what seems like 10 minutes of ring dropping? Tighten it up! It's not funny and it slows it down.
While we are watching this gag reel (which is displayed in PIP squares) one would think that titles would be rolling in the empty space. Guess what? They're not. So we go though this LONG "gag" reel and THEN we have to sit through the end titles! This movie is only 87 minutes long and it was clearly obvious that they were fishing to have a "feature length" film. Content, NOT time length.
End of story...you have to wonder a few things. Who greenlit this? Who Paid for it? How did it get made? Who read the script and thought "I HAVE to do this"? How did they get this distributed and how did they get this on cable? What experience do these guys have? Why did the filmmakers choose to use aliases instead of their real names in the credits? The person that greenlit this flick...did they read the script? (I'd like to ask if there was even a script, but the gag reel having "actors" forget their lines in the gag reel alluded to the fact that there might have been writing on this one) (SIDENOTE: That kinda makes it even worse)
End of story is this: Look I understand, as a filmmaker myself, that stuff happens. There are stories that justify mistakes, and I would love to talk to anyone associated with the project to "fill me in" on what happened. And maybe help make sure the next one doesn't make the same mistakes. Either or, I can't recommend this film and hope that I save someone the time.
B Movie potential
vedwards-29 November 2006
This is one of those silly movies that really don't have much substance or perhaps interest to the average viewer unless they have experienced certain elements they have seen. Ms. Dupree made a good "Grandma Pearl", and is reminiscent of grandmothers like that back in the day, singing Gospel and drinking at the same time. Then the Vietnam Vet\Flashlight Cop\Crazy man everyone in the "hood" has run into. Then there is Cousin Mike on crack, Aunt Gladys the hypocrite, Cousin Pam starting fights, Cousin Blaze rippin everyone off, and the list goes on and on. I doubt that we will see anything of substance out of these two, but the comedic license is palpable to say the least. I'm still laughing.
I am too through with low budgets
GSHARON71023 January 2008
As a retiree, I fill a lot of time watching movies. I try to support the low budget films but after seeing this movie, I am too through with low budgets. This is the fourth film I had to eject at a certain point, never to view it again. I went to get a cherry lime soda and there was this green particle on the outer cup. I got really paranoid and insisted it be fixed again. It was only a small piece of lime but after partially viewing these unbelievable waste of tapes, I was taking no chance. It seems people who make these films are too obsessed with nose picking, passing gas, and filthy body waste. In the future, if someone vouches for certain low budget films, I will buy it, but never never, never will I choose one because it seems to be interesting. It is not necessary for the disgusting scenes. You turn me OFF!
It Is What It Is
carreyb50425 May 2008
I think that people are over thinking this movie. It's a low budget film and bad low budget films have been made for years. What bothers me are when films with big budgets and major distribution sucks just as much or worst. Jeremy's Family Reunion was acted by a group of people that were acting for the very first time, now if you have to blame anyone, blame the director for not getting the best out of them and not getting the best shots, and the editor for really doing a very bad job. I think that this film could have been a lot better if those two would have done a better job. The idea was one that is common in the African American community families getting together for a reunion, wedding, graduation or funeral and all hell breaks out for one reason are another. This movie needed a bit more depth, but it could work. Maybe with better actors and a better director, but it could work. I think what some film students should do as a project is take movies like these and see how they can make them better. All in all I give it a C-
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