Beverly Hood

You can tell that this movie is low budget, but the premise is relatively believable and has a nice twist at the end. At times, it seems like a showcase of the music on the soundtrack, but those scenes aren't that long. There are a few very funny scenes (almost always the ones with Lavell Crawford or Buddy Lewis involved) but also some bad parts that seem like the actors were improvising poorly or just talking. All in all, if this movie is on cable for free or you see it for $1 on DVD in the store, it's worth picking up just to see the old Destiny's Child all together. If it's going to cost you more than $1 to watch it, I'd say save your money. The way that the cover art looks like something that's been photoshopped is a good indication of the quality of the film.

And if you somehow don't pick up on it, this is supposed to be a black parody take on The Beverly Hillbillies. Most of the Hillbillies characters have a double in this movie (Jed = Red, Ellie May = Pammie, Granny = Papa, Mr. Drysdale and his wife = the uppity neighbors, Jethro = Nathan etc)

This film dictates to an audience below the common denominator. It often does not make sense and is not funny. Somebody just wanted to make a movie and they accomplished that task. As far as entertaining an audience, they failed miserably. Logic is not a strong suit of this picture. Neither are even fair strong story telling, camera work, acting and editing.

This is a stupidical send-up of "The Beverly Hillbillies" in the utmost meaning of it. I saw this just the other day,believe me when you see it that it is poorly written,poorly acted,and poorly directed,but I'll give it a thumb up for being half funny. It's a crying shame that this did not got straight to a movie theatre(or BET-TV for that manner)because it went straight to video just for that reason. Here you have a bunch of black folks that just get up there and act so darn silly at times,you hardly know what is going to happened next or to follow the storyline for that manner which gets off course. Basically the cast consists of comedians from BET's "Comicview",and actress(or crazy lady)Kim Whitley from BET's "Oh Drama!",and from the UPN series "Sparks". Its a shame that we as a people(African-Americans,some not all of them do this) get a role in a movie and act so foolish at times that we make ourselves look stupid. So pathetic.

NOTE: This movie also features three original members of the girl group Destiny's Children(also known as Destiny's Child before they went big time) with a young looking Beyonce Knowles who is in this movie for about 15 minutes who portrays one of the family members.

Based very loosely on the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 -1971) this movie looked like it might be going somewhere but wentdownhill within the first 10 minutes. Basically a poor hillbilly family win the lottery and move to Beverly Hills. The plot was very poor as was the ham fisted acting. It seemed like a cheap vehicle to showcase the lack of talent of Lavell Crawford and Buddy Lewis. At times it was like a mish mash of comedy sketches. I was fortunate that I only rented this movie, if I'd bought it I would have more extremely disappointed. As it stands this was an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back.

I ran across this movie at walmart on one of those dollar racks. I didn't expect much coming since it was there in the first place. I thought maybe I was getting some made for TV movie or something sincei never heard of it before but it turned out to be worse. Movie makes me feel like a bunch of friends got together and some how managed to get destiny's child involved and churned out this horrible piece of crap. The acting is worse than that I experience as my classmates homework video projects in my multimedia class in community college. As I said I wasn't expecting much but at least thought I'd get some laughs out of it. Well scratch that I did laugh at those unnecessary slow motion scene when I was thinking about how I should've picked up the Luke Perry movie that was in the same rack or just saved my dollar in the first place. I wouldn't recommend wasting your money on this unless you want a coaster and a DVD case.