Friday After Next (2002)

The third film goes Xmas. I shit you not. Seasonal plot-desperation is typically a bad sign, and Friday After Next is no certainly exception. Craig (Ice Cube) is back in the ghetto, sharing an apartment with his cousin Day-Day (Mike Epps), who we met in the previous film, Next Friday (2000).  For a while things are good and interactions are sharp, but once the cops leave so too does the fun. I found it impossible to care about any of the new characters and a struggle to sit through the wafer-thin additions to existing ones.

Credit, however, is given for the title. I can't think of any other series that has titling as clever as the Friday films. That trend is set to continue if the rumoured fourth film ever gets made, Last Friday.

1½ pimps and some ho ho hos out of 5