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It is really sad when a 15 year old kid can ride the coat tales of his uncle (Snoop Dog) not only to a record career but now a film career. This film is the typical tale of a poor kid becoming a star, through of all things, shoes (which he climbs up a tree in the middle of a lightning storm to go get, I am sure parents will love that part). After he gets his magical shoes he becomes a super basketball player. Now if this plot sounds familiar, well it is, it`s call Rookie of the Year and it was done many years ago.

To be fair the acting isn`t half bad, I would definitly consider Lil`Bow Wow a better actor than rapper. I do feel bad for his co-star Morris Chestnut who has the look of "I just don`t want to be here" on his face for the entire film. Chesnut is a good actor and deserves more than this. I won tickets to screening of this film, but after watching it I didn`t feel like a winner, I felt like I wanted the 90 minutes of my life back.

Who on earth gave funding for this film? Melissa Heart can't get the man she wants, so she uses the old lets use my ugly ex-friend to make him jealous trick, and of course they end up falling for each other. This wouldn't be so bad but it is horrible executed, it runs to long and is very very dry, and don't even get me started subplot about poor Melissa's estranged father. This film was meant to launch Melissa into the big screen world, but instead it just launched her into the gutter.

Like all B movies sequels are unavoidable, but fortunately for once it's an enjoyable sequel. Linnea and Ginger Lynn return to bust more bad guys and stop the evil doers the only way they know how, with their bras, guns, and brains (to bad they can't rely on the latter for much help). The film is missing the spark of the original with loss of characters like Chucky Long and Cherry Pop, but does have some laughs, and it is a good way to kill 80 minutes. Look for B movie queen Melissa Moore in the pre-credit sequence.