“Friday” is essentially “Boyz N The Hood” meets “Clerks”. Like “Clerks”, it follows two bored friends not knowing what to do with their day and like “Boyz N The Hood”, it focuses on a community affected by the violence of black gangs in Los Angeles. “Friday” was a hit and spawned a couple of sequels but I honestly do not get the appeal of it.

Craig (Ice Cube “Boyz N The Hood”, “Ride Along”) and Smokey (Chris Tucker “Money Talks”, “Rush Hour”) smoke a drug dealer’s marijuana and now must find a way to pay the dealer off before he shoots them. Most of the movie just has the characters sat on their porch not knowing what to do next. Honestly, hardly anything happens in this movie.

Ice Cube is completely forgettable as Craig. I hear he had a successful career so I thought maybe Craig would do some rapping but it never happens. Chris Tucker is always annoying and not funny even in small doses. I still have not fully recovered from the pain he inflicted during his brief appearance in “The Fifth Element” and I doubt I ever will. The other characters are just really boring. Nobody here made me laugh even once.

Apparently, Quentin Tarantino (“Pulp Fiction”) regards “Friday” as one of his favourites but I found it to be a really dull experience. It has a nice visual style that is virtually the same as “Boyz N The Hood” but that’s about it. I did not get all the drug humour and I even struggled to understand what some of the characters were saying because they talk so quickly and use a great deal of slang. I know I’m clearly not the target demographic but still, I thought it was pretty bad. I even thought that the “Harold & Kumar” movies were better because at least those stoner comedies had stuff happening in them.