The film fails as a satire because it's plenty racist on its own.

| Dec 17, 2020

Steve Martin and Queen Latifah? Who woulda thunk it! But kudos to that brainchild!

| Nov 7, 2019

It's a wheezing, rusted machine of cheap jokes, cartoon performances, and crummy plotting, using shock value and insensitivity to make its painfully unfunny points.

| Original Score: D | Jul 26, 2012

Everything about this film is painfully familiar, except, perhaps, for the vicious-but-comic catfight between Latifah and Missi Pyle, who plays a high-society gold digger.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 12, 2012

Martin and Latifah rule in boundary-pushing PG-13.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

You're better off ignoring this junk and saving your time.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 7, 2004

If you've seen the commercials for Bringing Down the House, you already know the movie's best moments and most memorable lines...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 6, 2004

Irreverent but perhaps not funny enough, "Bringing Down the House" gives Queen Latifah the chance to shine opposite Steve Martin.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 7, 2003

Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, and Eugene Levy manage to squeeze laughs out of a totally generic, manufactured script that's drowning in odd couple formula.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 9, 2003

It's completely forgettable and unoriginal, but it might make a good rental on a slow family movie night.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 6, 2003

...an agreeable premise that’s employed to watchable yet entirely forgettable effect...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

Steve Martin used to be a wild and crazy guy. Now he's as bland as his hair.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 25, 2003

Qualquer filme que tente provocar risos atravs de animais vestidos com 'roupas engraadas' est claramente ciente de suas deficincias.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 24, 2003

It's quite a mess, this catastrophe -- a racially offensive mess, too.

| Jun 12, 2003

Kudos to Steve Martin for choosing this script. He's laughing all the way to the bank. The audience isn't as lucky.

| Original Score: C | Jun 10, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2003