Bringing Down The House (DVD)

There can be few stars in Hollywood who have gone down the dumper as fast as Steve Martin. If you remember the golden heydays of his career then you must be in a position ~ if you ever liked his work anyway ~ of seeing each new release come out to minor fanfares, dwindling returns, and a prompter appearance at the local video store with some chagrin. Having said that, he hasn't been idle. First writing the novel Shopgirl, he's spent much of the past couple of years in getting that movie off the ground. While it's churlish and out of place to mention how quickly Bowfinger sent theediscerning to sleep, Novocaine was his best film in yonks too ~ an ...  Read the complete review

Bringing Down The House is a comedy from 2003 starring Steve Martin & Queen Latifah. It was released in March of 2003 & grossed an estimated $132,541,238 on a budget of $35,000,000. It's rated 12 & runs for approximately 107 minutes. This film was a surprise hit. Bringing Down The House is directed by Adam Shankman. Adam Shankman has mainly worked on reasonably successful comedies such as; The Pacifier, A Walk To Remember & Cheaper By The Dozen. He's also a choreographer & has been on a judge on the American show 'So You Think You Can Dance'. He's worked on choreography for music videos with Janet Jackson & Paula Abdul & has ...  Read the complete review

The story Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is an uptight lawyer who’s too busy to lead a normal life. He meets a woman called Charlene aka Lawyergirl (Queen Latifah) in an online law chatroom. He really enjoys chatting to her, as he’s quite a lonely guy since separating from his wife, Kate (Jean Smart). Peter and Charlene decide to have a date but Charlene is not what Steve thinks she is. He expects a blonde skinny well dressed lawyer to turn up but to his horror a big black woman turns up on his doorstep. She informs him that she’s Charlene but Peter says she can’t be, as she looks nothing like she did in the picture. He shown her ...  Read the complete review

Ask me to name my favorite kind of film and I would have to say that a rip roaring comedy would always be at the top of my list. It's good to laugh, its great therapy and I would have a number of comedy films in my top ten. I am a big fan of the great Mel Brooks. I loved the humour of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, controversial, but very funny. If you asked me ten years ago to name some of the great comedy film performers I would have gladly added Steve Martin to that list. Who can forget the wonderful Roxanne,The man with two brains, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. If you asked me for that list a week ago, however, you would not have found his ...  Read the complete review

In my issue of Empire magazine there was a preview for a film called Bringing Down The House. I looked at who was in it before I decided I was going to collect the tickets. It was Queen Latifah who I know from Chicago and then Steve Martin who everyone knows he is very funny. I went to get my tickets and sat down to watch. The film begins with instant messaging between to people and them speaking when it is being typed. They are describing themselves to each other and just in general getting to know each other. They decide to meet up and so Peter (Steve Martin) is typing in his office to lawyer girl when his friend Howie walks in and he explains and shows a ...  Read the complete review