Down to Earth

Pros: Funny cast, especially Rock who carries the film
Cons: Tired premise, doesn't flesh out the plot, too quick

In this remake of a remake, as apparently original ideas have abandoned Hollywood yet again, Chris Rock plays a stand-up comedian who dies before his time and is sent back in an affluent white man's body. Yes, the concept in itself is funny, Chris Rock...

Pros: Palmintieri, King, Rock's sarcastic moments
Cons: Not enough of Rock's comic persona

Some stories are so popular, Hollywood tells them again and again. In 1941, they brought us "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." In 1978, this picture was remade by Warren Beatty as "Heaven Can Wait." Both pictures were so well received, they were nominated for...

Pros: Chris Rock is funny
Cons: The rest of the film is not

Chris Rock is a funny man, if not one of the best comics in America today. Unfortunately, he seems to have hit that level where the movies being offered to him (i.e. this one and POOTIE-TANG) are in the Saturday Night Live school of sad comedic...

Pros: Chris Rock's stand-up act gets a big-screen makeover...
Cons: Am I the only one who thinks that's a bit pointless?

Down to Earth is all about vehicles. Struggling comedian Lance Barton is riding his bike when he is knocked off by a lorry and prematurely taken to heaven. Heavy involvement of vehicles. He is then granted a new body, that of a middle-aged white...

Pros: Chris Rock, not bad to watch
Cons: Could have been much funnier

We rented this movie on a night where we had done some veritablepacing along the "new release" aisle of a local video rental place near my boyfriend's house. Down To Earth was near the bottom, and we grabbed it because it had Chris Rock in it and we...

Pros: Some funny parts from the commercial
Cons: Poor acting, writing, story and that guy sittin next to me in the theater

Besides movies like Hannibal and The Mexican, a movie was released that had hype, a few laughs on the commercial, and the star of the movie was Chris Rock. This movie I had to see. I knew a few things before I...

Pros: Virtuoso performance from comedian Chris Rock
Cons: A little too much like Heaven Can Wait

Comedian Chris Rock carries this film on his back, with a stream of gags that will have you falling about. ‘Down to Earth’ is a good fun film that is worth watching if you are looking for an antidote to a Blockbuster.

If you’ve seen the 1978...

Pros: There is very little funny within.
Cons: The only good thing is that it might cause some people to see the originals.

(Dir: Chris and Paul Weitz, Starring Chris Rock, Regina King, Mark Addy, Frankie Faison, Chazz Palminteri, Eugene Levy, Greg Germann, Wanda Sykes, and Jennifer Coolidge)

There are many bad moments in Down to Earth -- so many that I do not have...

Pros: the movie showcases Chris Rock's comedic skills
Cons: the movie showcases Chris Rock's acting ability

I went to this movie with absolutely no expectations of even being entertained for the two hours of time that I would be in the theater. However, I must say that I was delighted to find that it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. This...

Pros: It's a clever concept....
Cons: the clever concept has been done so often that this remake is a rip-off

When Lance Barton (Chris Rock), a bicycle messenger by day and struggling stand-up comedian by night, finds himself suddenly in heaven, he's convinced there's been a mistake. And he's right: in a celestial foul-up, an assistant (Eugene Levy)...

Pros: Good timing, decent update...
Cons: ...of a movie that's been made at least twice already

Down To Earth is a time-tested story about a young man taken too soon, and his quest to return to the life and loves he once had. Originally released in the 40's (?) as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, then again by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can...

Pros: Stand up comedy fans get plenty of Chris Rock
Cons: Acting fans have to endure plenty of Chris Rock

Back To Earth, Chris Rock’s 2001 race-conscious version of Warren Beatty’s 1978 film Heaven Can Wait (which borrowed its title if not the storyline from the Ernst Lubitsch comedy of 1943), must have looked like a sure fire hit in...

Pros: Rock has a lot of energy
Cons: It's wasted on this

There is not a single charming, endearing, original, effective, intelligent, or clever element in Down to Earth, a hopeless remake of Heaven Can Wait. To put it bluntly: this is a bad movie. Each scene grows in predictability and tedium...

Pros: laughed from beginning to end
Cons: social commentary and comedy does not sit well with all people

I can say that because I'm black. That's pretty much what this movie is about. In addition to being a remake of "Heaven can wait", (which I loved, by the way) this movie explores a common misunderstanding between whites and blacks.

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Pros: A few laughs here and there, it's over quickly
Cons: Weak plot and even weaker dialogue

I've just finished watching Down to Earth, a recently released comedy starring Chris Rock, on video. I've always thought highly of Chris Rock after watching him on Saturday Night Live and as characters ranging from an apostle in Dogma to...