House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute

House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute (2001) is a movie that I recently watched on HBOMAX. The storyline follows a young man who pretends to be sick and stays in his uncle's house while he is out of town on vacation. He invites all of his friends over to throw a house party of epic proportions; meanwhile, his sister will try to prove he's playing sick and throw his plans for a loop.

This movie is written and directed by Chris Stokes (You Got Served) and stars Marques Houston (You Got Served), Marques Houston (Dream On), Meagan Good (Think Like a Man), Mari Morrow (National Security) and Alexis Fields (Sister, Sister).

This movie is so bad and doesn't even try to be good. The entire fake sick set-up was corny and not well done. The acting in this is atrocious. Who thought Houston was a good lead character? The comedic writing was painful. The uncle was way over done and not entertaining, the mother and sister were ridiculous and the party was a letdown. Even the soundtrack wasn't good...how do you mess that up? While the end called for a sequel, fortunately it never happened.

Overall, the only thing good about this movie...is Meagan Good is in it. I would score this a 1/10 and recommend skipping it.

I'm not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies..which it is not. Even though Marques Houston did appear in "HP3", he played a totally different character (he was, eight years older) in this film. Okay...so Reid and Martin weren't the most talented and couldn't carry a film all by themselves..but to trade on the HP franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference (albeit minor) to the earlier movies. I'm sure everyone who wanted to see it was "hoodwinked"--into thinking that they were seeing a sequel--not a totally different film with a familiar name. And I'm sorry...Kym Whitley is not funny, and could not hold a candle to the late Robin Harris, Ketty Lester, or DC Curry in the earlier films. Although Meagen Good and Mari Morrow are a substantial visual diversion...I have to give this a THUMBS DOWN!! Just naming the film "Down to the Last Minute" would have been OK. Furthermore, the Hudlin brothers (who produced the first three movies) were not involved in the making of this film.

I saw House Party 1-3 and I loved them but this one wasn't funny at all.First it can't be a House Party movie without Kid n'Play right? This one sucks and it was more like a black version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off than a House Party movie.Second who the heck is John-John?These new character's can't even compare to the ones from the other three movies.Now i know why they put it straight to video.It has horrible music, weak plot, untalented actors,and no hilarious jokes at all.My advice,watch this movie at night only if you can't get to sleep.They should have ended the series after House Party 3 since Kid'n'Play separated after that one.I hate this one am glad my local video store doesn't have this film and never want to buy it or want to see it on Comedy Central either.Just because Chris Strokes has talent managing an up-and-coming R&B group doesn't mean he has talent directing and producing films am I right or what? Finally, the female characters were all dressed up like cheap two-dollar hookers throughout most of the flick.IMX separated a year after this flick got released probably due to the failure of this film and are all but forgotten nowadays. In simplier terms this movie just plain old sucks!!!!

I too am a House Party Fan...House Party I is my favorite movie of all times. House Party 4 is a disgrace to all of the HP's and to Kid n Play...This was supposed to be part of a series really..there was nothing about kid n play in this movie or any of the other veterans..yea kid n play was probably too old to be throwing a House Party movie b/c its kind of focused on teens..but kid n play could have at least made a cameo appearance ... you can tell how good it was b/c it didn't even make it to the movie theaters. Immature was in House Party 3 so it made sense for them to carry on the legacy...but they should have represented right...they should have left it at House Party 3. I am 27 years old and I have been watching House Party I since I was 11 when it came out in 1990(16 years ago) and I have been a fan ever since. When I first seen House Party 4 I was like what are they really thinking about...There was nothing familiar about this movie that would compare to the previous 3 movies.. I thought it was a black Ferris Bueller days off.

I think it's current rating was a little low. It definitely had its issues that everyone points out. Yeah kid n play weren't in it but so what. I would've given it a 4, but Meagan Good was nice to look at.

The magic from the previous 3 wasn't there either. The music was less hip hopish and more boy bandish, but that's what everyone was listening to then though.

Meagan Good. Yeah.