Isn't Aaliyah, I don't know, DEAD?

The Movie: Honey, directed by Bille Woodruff
Recommendation: Much More Music. Bastards.
Reason: Because it was on, and apparently I haven't suffered enough.

Shawn Desman is in this movie. The title role was originally intended for Aaliyah (but hey, WHAT WASN'T, RIGHT?). It's more important right now to focus on the fact that SHAWN DESMAN was given screen time. Enough that he was identifiable as Shawn-FREAKING-Desman, and not 'White Hip Hop Artist #3'. His other claim to fame is the theme song from...wait for it...KANGAROO JACK. Yeah, the movie that was the death knell of Jerry O'Connell's career. The one about the kangaroo that steals money from Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson.

Cameos aside (and there are a LOT of cameos), Honey's a predictable movie whose major redeeming features are its uplifting message and the number of times Jessica Alba gets oiled up and dances. Neither of these was worth the two hours of my life I sacrificed to the film. Sister Act II came out a decade earlier, and it was more entertaining. And it had Lauryn Hill, not Jessica Alba as a poor substitute for Aaliyah. Not to slag too much on Alba-she takes the roles she's meant for and she gets the most she can out of them. Like everything else involving Missy Elliot from y2k through 2004, though, Honey was supposed to have Aaliyah in it. She was a good singer. She was a pretty good actress, with what she was given. But she wasn't the great gift to entertainment people seem to think she was. SO STOP WITH THE MEMORIALIZING ALREADY! Yes, tragic death. I was very upset. But Aaliyah was not the solution to the world's problems. She wasn't going to cure cancer or AIDS, she was a pretty girl with a lot of entertainment potential that was cut short.

The music in this picture was bland and uninteresting-better hip hop movies have been and will be made. Mekhi Phifer was very nice, for his brief moments on screen. I almost have to say that more of him would have improved the film quite a bit.

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