Rotten
The idea of transposing the story to the macho, greedy world of big-time sports is promising, but director Jesse Vaughan delivers only flat dialogue and predictable situations.
Ted Shen, Chicago Reader
Juwanna Mann
The only way he can stay pro, is to play (like) a girl.
2002 · 1h 31m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Jesse Vaughan
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Juwanna Mann
Overview
A basketball star is booted out of the NBA when his on-court antics go too far, so he poses as a woman and joins the WUBA.
Director and cast
- Jesse Vaughan Director
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Jamal Jefferies / Juwanna Mann
- Vivica A. Fox as Michelle Langford
- Kevin Pollak as Lorne Daniels
- Tommy Davidson as Puff Smokey Smoke
- Ginuwine as Romeo
- Lil' Kim as Tina Parker
- Dikembe Mutombo as Coyner
- Vlade Divac as Morse
- Muggsy Bogues as Andrew Stewart
- Rasheed Wallace as Whitley
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
10%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie is sloppily edited, the gags limply staged, the dialogue and jokes stiff and stale. Even the action on the basketball court is unimaginative and boring.
David Germain, Associated Press
Rotten
An unpersuasive moral journey, with a smattering of laughs, that fails to justify the insulting premise that only a man can help the ladies win at both basketball and love.
Anna Smith, Time Out
Rotten
Vaughan brings such disregard to the film that its pedestrian on-court action might as well have been shot from the bleacher seats.
Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
A Tootsie-role sports farce that's a drag in every which way.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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