
Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke (1995) presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke (1995) return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York City, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.... (Full plot summary below)
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Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke (1995) presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke (1995) return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York City, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA freewheeling offshoot of the good indie Smoke |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe film is so exuberant that we don't care whether we're listening to Lou Reed's off-the-cuff comments about New York, watching Mel Gorham do a sexy dance in front of a mirror, or hearing Jim Jarmusch's ramblings on the romance of the smoking culture. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe results are ragged, disjointed, and endearing. |
| Entertainment WeeklyTy BurrThe improvisations are a mixed bag -- Reed and Fox are surprisingly hilarious, while Roseanne is a shrieking horror show -- but the air of gentle play and a wistful sense that Brooklyn is some kind of lost Eden put this one up on the more structured "Smoke." |
| Juicy CerebellumAlex SandellNot as good a smoke as the first, but worth a puff. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe lows never last too long - something invariably jumps out to recapture our interest or prompt a chuckle. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSome of the bits work and others don't, but no one seems to be keeping score, and that's part of the movie's charm. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserMore about having a good time with some interesting people than it is about watching a fine movie. |
| VarietyDavid StrattonA piecemeal collection of barely connected scenes and characters, stitched together with videotaped comments from a cross-section of Brooklyn residents. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonAn unpredictable, occasionally amusing, wildly uneven portrait of a neighborhood struggling to hold on to its identity. |