| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Clearly this is no masterpiece, but as its US reception indicated, it is a product overdue in the market, and it compares well with its anaemic counterparts.

| Aug 16, 2007

All of the performances are good and the soundtrack pulses with humor as well as decibels.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

This is the only House Party that counts.

| Mar 10, 2003

An aged piece of ghetto-lore that has become less black-counterpart to Heathers and Dazed and Confused than pristine example of serendipity in film.

Full Review | Original Score: 62/100 | Aug 14, 2001

House Party is silly and high-spirited and not particularly significant, and that is just as it should be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There's a lot more energy and social reality in this picture than one is accustomed to finding in teen exploitation movies; the cutting is often dynamic, and Hudlin generally does a good job of keeping things moving.

| Jan 1, 2000

[It's] fast-moving, never dull, extremely funny, and manages to touch, with lighthearted (and R-rated) profundity on almost every youthful issue you can imagine, including police harassment, teenage sex, the all-too-easy road to jail and alcohol drinking.

| Jan 1, 2000

House Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 9, 1990