Baby Boy

Pros: Director John Singleton spares us the LA gangs!
Cons: *strong profanity, shootings, attempted rape and homicide.

The movie “baby boy” by Writer-director John Singleton portrays the rough and tough inner city street life of South Central Los Angeles. Stop! Not another summer sequel! Does this sound familiar? Perhaps you are thinking the return of “Boyz N the...

Pros: Good intentions and vibrant performances, targeted to a black urban audience
Cons: Contrived, repetitive melodrama with superficial characters, plus vulgar language and graphic sexuality

In previous films like "Boyz N the Hood" (1991), writer/director John Singleton has focused on understanding troubled black men trapped in South Central Los Angeles, but in this new film he is critical of them for not growing up and achieving their...

Pros: Ving Rhames.
Cons: A little longer than it should be.

I think this film is the journey of a twenty year old boy finally becoming a man. But I'm not sure. If this is what the film is supposed to be about, I don't think it fully succeeded.

The movie starts with the image of the fully grown lead...

Pros: Terrific performances across the board; fascinating drama.
Cons: A bit too tidy and conventional in the end.

Given the fact that Baby Boy marks writer-director John Singleton's cinematic return to the 'hood of South Central Los Angeles a full decade after his acclaimed debut Boyz N the Hood, it makes sense for Columbia Pictures to play up the...

Pros: An uncompromising look that's honest and hopeful. Beautifully crafted.
Cons: May not have that Boyz N The Hood punch, but it still hits hard.

As I watched Boyz N The Hood again this past weekend, I wondered, “Man, where has that John Singleton gone?” And as I watched Baby Boy, I happily realized, “The bruthuh’z back.” Oh, he may not be all up in there like he was...

Pros: A good lesson in growing up, being a man.
Cons: The Snoop Dogg section is a long way to go for a paltry joke.

Let me begin by side-tracking. I saw this movie on opening weekend. I am white, and the audience on Friday was entirely black except for me. When we white people sit at a movie, whether it's ID4 or Citizen Kane, we treat it like it's an opera or...

Pros: I'm glad somebody else paid for my ticket.
Cons: Message isn't quite all there.

I thought this movie to be more like a jumbled poem of ideas than of subject and context.

Characters
These were all very 2-dimentional characters based off of rather primative stereotypes of black culture. Whereas I realize this...

Pros: Some good, Boyz N The Hood dialogue
Cons: Some bad Boyz in The Hood Dialogue

John Singleton is in an interesting position. Boyz in the hood is, arguably, one of the best, most honest looks at african-american life seen through the eyes of an African American. The film cracks and pops with witty dialogue and heart-breaking...

Pros: The performances; story
Cons: Stereotyping of black males

Now you have to understand this is 2001, I don't think people act like this in LA anymore.

The biggest problem with this movie and all the other African American movies. They stereotype black males as gangsters and all of them have at least...

Pros: It tells the realistic story of a young african american male entering manhood
Cons: It might be a little ghetto and somewhat overboard to make points

After seeing the movie Baby Boy I wasn't quite sure what to think of it, was it another one of those movies that showed how the hood lived kinda stories or was it really saying something..So I went to see it again and just fell in love with the...

Pros: John Singleton is working from real characters and real emotions.
Cons: His film does occasionally verge on self-indulgence.

Following the high gloss action of Shaft, writer-director John Singleton returns to his Boyz N the Hood roots with this brave and compelling drama.

Set in crime-plagued South Central L.A., Baby Boy focuses on what Singleton feels is a growing...

Pros: very good dialoges and scenes between Gibson and Rhames
Cons: too sentimental,too simple,too long...

John Singleton is,we might say,the master in discribing and
showing us the black mans ghetto life.
He did in before in Boyz 'n the hood,ten years ago.
Now,ten years later it's time for Baby Boy.Another ghetto-story.But this time without...

Pros: J.S. gives VOICE to yet another face of the Black Woman, Man and Child-
Cons: NO CONS-WELL DONE--don't look for a message---and you'll get the point-

In two hours and seven minutes J.S covered a mass amount of issues and figures within the black experience--Thank you to John Singleton for his great experience and eye for life--he gives voice to the voiceless--eyes to the blind and enlightenment to us...

Pros: A knockout of a movie about an urban Peter Pan fighting growing up
Cons: The result of Jody's criminal activities is not settled

John Singleton will never surpass this brilliant docu-drama dealing with the single most inscrutable social problem in the inner city today,the single mom raising a teen-aged son, in this case Jody played by Tyrese Gibson who lives at home with his...

Pros: Some comedy involved.
Cons: Not just another "gangster" movie.

I have to start by saying that this movie wasn't what I expected it to be, but that's a good thing. Many of us are familiar with John Singleton's "Boyz In The Hood". I just knew this was going to be a 2001 version of it. But I'm so glad this movie...