
Darryl Witherspoon is a young black college student who wants to win annual junior analyst competition, which can land him a job in a big brokerage company. He becomes a guinea pig for the drug developed at the college which is promised to heighten all senses by ten times.... (Full plot summary below)
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Darryl Witherspoon is a young black college student who wants to win annual junior analyst competition, which can land him a job in a big brokerage company. He becomes a guinea pig for the drug developed at the college which is promised to heighten all senses by ten times.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt's a laff riot that also contains a torrent of scathing social satire that couldn't be more timely in light of the dismantling of affirmative action. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellThe gags, like the plotting, have a giddy edge that can be sharp, but just as often they go nowhere. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is not great comedy, and Wayans doesn't find ways to build and improvise, as Carrey does. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorBig laughs are few and far between in this 1998 movie, which is more successful as motivational anecdote than as comedy. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt's made by a director who knows comedy, working from a script founded on a surefire slapstick premise. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyCreated as a comic vehicle for the lead actor, pic depends entirely too much on Wayans to carry the day, but at this point he is far more eager and willing than he is funny. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanHer setups here are so witless and pedestrian that there's no imagination to the crude slapstick punchlines; we're just watching a bland jester pantomime sensory overload. |
| L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmIf you can be satisfied with only Wayans' Tourette's syndrome bit, or his perfect timing in the scene where he just kisses a girl and creams his pants, you'll go home happy. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThere's a surprising sweetness under its crude exterior. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThere's more bathroom and slapstick humor than a sixth-grader could stand, and a veritable flood of drool, blood and less mentionable effluvia, most of it courtesy of Mr. Wayans as he tries to be you know funny. |