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Waitresses at a Georgia restaurant, Nisi and Mickey, decide to fly to Los Angeles for a music-video audition in order to raise money for their dream project, instead they scam a dying millionaire but eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
You can see how the black, modern-day Pygmalion-type story could work, just, but not with this heap of cabbage leaves for a script, and not with such desperately goofy acting from Berry and Desselle.
Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.
April 26, 2006
Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)
Apallingly bad. Robert Townsend's attempt at satirizing black culture is far off the mark.
November 27, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle
They both do good work, but it's Desselle who steals the film and grabs the major laughs.
t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.