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FiyaStarter RATING =  Fiyaballs
Last Holiday stars Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, a reserved, hard-working and considerate woman who learns that she'll be dead in three weeks, so she decides to take a European vacation and eat up all the food she can during her last days...and ski. Shoot, I know that's what I'd do if I was gonna be dead in three weeks. Latifah got it right, y'all. Georgia immediately liquidates every asset she has and packs her bags. Though distraught about being a goner, Georgia is empowered by knowing her fate. She lets her hair down. She comes out of her shell. She shops. She eats. She talks shit to everyone she doesn't like. This is the sassiest black protagonist since Latifah in Bringin' Down The House. How does Latifah manage to be so convincing, no matter how many times she plays the same character? It's uncanny. I mean, it likes she's a sassy big black woman in real life or something. Mark my words, Latifah will do for the Sassy Big Black Woman what Cicely Tyson did for Dignified Elderly Black Woman. As in every movie told from an African American's perspective, the villain is a white guy. This time the villain is Matthew Kragen, owner of a nationwide chain of department stores, played by Timothy Hutton, who has a fucking Academy Award. Yeah, he has one. It's obscene. You know what else is obscene? His complete lack of body fat. I have no idea what the hell Timothy Hutton has been doing since Q&A, but that muhfucka look like he's been training non-stop with John Basedow for the last decade. I don't fuck with no John Basedow. NOPE! People shouldn't look like that. Hutton's talent must have eroded along with his fat tissue. He's lean as hell. UGH! FUCKIN' BASEDOW, MAN! Oh, and LL Cool J is in this one, too, y'all. Two of my favorite childhood rappers in the same movie. You know what that means? If any of you young brothers and sisters out there truly want to be actors and actresses, you better learn how to rap, otherwise you ain't gettin' no job in Hollywood. As for LL, he plays Latifah's love interest in this. He's not believable, but shit...he's playing Latifah's love interest. She ain't into him and he ain't into her. I mean, "let's be reality" (assist to Jason from Making the Band III). All in all, I liked this movie, as it showed positive black people
not killing each other and having a good time...and all that shit.
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