Queen Latifah's 'Perfect Holiday' Is Quite Mediocre

By Chris Georg
21:20, December 12th 2007
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Queen Latifah's 'Perfect Holiday' Is Quite Mediocre

'Perfect Holiday', produced and narrated by rapper Dana Elaine Owens aka Queen Latifah, is another failed attempt at cashing in over the Christmas holidays. The movie features Gabrielle Union as a hip-hop star's ex-wife who falls for a department store Santa (Morris Chestnut).

Directed and co-written by Lance Rivera, Untertainment Records CEO and label co-founder with Notorious B.I.G., the silly romantic comedy is neither heartwarming, believable or remotely funny.

Gabrielle Union's ex is "J-Jizzy" (Charlie Murphy, making good fun of Sean Combs), who also fathered her three children. Her eldest son, John-John (Malik Hammond) does what he can to sabotage Nancy's romance with Benjamin (Chestnut). Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard play feuding angels who occasionally pop up.

The flick, running 96 annoying minutes, is rated PG for brief language and some suggestive humor. It joins "This Christmas" and "Fred Claus" as this year's trio of mediocre Christmas movies, produced to cash in on people's propensity towards light, "heartwarming" flicks.

MediaTakeOut.com claimed late November that Queen Latifah and her longtime girlfriend Jeanette are officially engaged, although she previously suggested she is not gay. Latifah, 37, won a 1995 Grammy for her U.N.I.T.Y. single and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2002 for her role in "Chicago".



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